CofFEE

For the moment I am fully occupied with my work at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity or CofFEE. That takes my time.

DIY grey water system

I have just constructed (January 2009) an operational grey water system to feed the shower water out to the garden. I had searched around for a while trying to get information about how to build a system and finally settled on my own design. If you are interested go to the step by step instructions.

Fig tree up a wall!

If your garden is constrainted by: (a) available space; and/or (b) available sunlight you might be interested in this. To maximise the "farm space" in my suburban garden I had to balance the need to grow a self-sufficient crop of vegetables and yet have an orchard at the same time. One of the choices I made was to use a west-facing wall of the house to experiment with growing a fig tree up the wall using a fan-type strategy. Here is the progress of the Fig Tree up a Wall! project.

Getting Coldfusion MX7.02 to work with Apache 2.2 on Linux

Here is my step-by-step guide for anyone who is struggling with this problem. It took some work and some great help from several people to get it down.

The Blues Box

To see what my blues band is doing go to http://www.thebluesbox.org.

Pressure Drop update - August 2007

I have just been sent some lost tapes from 1981 which were recorded in a studio at Clayton, Melbourne. The band had already gone off the road and I was heading to England and we had 2 nights of studio time to record some original material some of which we had not played before. We just put down the tracks without mixing and I have recovered the material from cassette tape. It is rough but indicates where the band was heading at that stage. See link on left side.

billy blog - is now working again

You can now read my blog at HERE!. I have finished the coding to get this operational again and will integrate the old blog into this new framework by the middle of February 2009. Despite its infrequent nature in the past (time constraints) the new blog is much easier to manage and maintain and so should be more or less regular from now on (posted January 22, 2009).

Unemployment and underemployment - an act of state terrorism in Australia

The single most important source of insecurity faced by Australia individuals and their families is the threat of unemployment. Unemployment is a choice made by the Federal Government. The government can always use its fiscal power to ensure there are enough public sector jobs to absorb all those workers who are unable to get jobs elsewhere. Failure to do so leads to persistently high unemployment which we have had in Australia over the last 30 years. These failures of public policy are consistent with the definition of a terrorist act against the population by the state.