Last week I posted about a story on channel Seven’s “Sunday Night” program on the issue of vaccination.
I was impressed with the story, it was well written, backed by science and about as unbiased as  commercial networks get on a prime time current affairs style program. ( 60 Minutes, I’m staring at you buddy. )
I [...]

Back in the 80’s Australia was pushing to become “The Clever Country”, recognising the importance of a well educated populace (and hence workforce) in securing a bright future for the entire nation.
Roll forward nearly thirty years to the current day, how well educated and “clever” are we now??
The “Internets” are abuzz these days with debate [...]

As you probably know our number one son Seth recently started school.
So far his weekly report cards have been really good and his behavior in class has been great.
We’ve heard stories of other children in his class getting awards and certificates but nothing for him until this week.
Sethy won the student of the week [...]

Viv and I have discussed the topic of buying a console many times and we were planning to hold off for a few years.
Well, as they say “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”.
We had some friends over last weekend (thanks Christine), and they brought a couple of PS/2s and an [...]

Number one son, Seth reached a big milestone this week when he started Kindy at Wyong Public School.
He’s been so excited since last years jump start program, wanting to wear his uniform and eat out of his lunchbox.
We’ve had two days so far and he’s loving it, he’s already making new friends…
Here’s a picture of [...]

Inspired by my Texan colleague and enabled by my recent acquisition of a 3G iPhone I decided to have a crack at Geocaching.
For the uninitiated this involves trying to find a hidden cache of goodies based on GPS co-ordinates.
I checked out the definitive sight geocaching.com punched in the co-ordinates of my house and looked [...]

Early this evening at approx 5:32pm, after an insanely long (18 hours) and ultimately unproductive labour, my sister Vicky gave birth to her first child.
Jack Richard Cordingley
 

Weight: 3.65 kg
Length: 50 cm
Head: 36.5 cm

Special mention goes to the Dad Paul, who, even though he has a tendancy to faint at the sight of hospital equipment managed [...]

Last week the boys reached another milestone, we enrolled them in the local Daycare centre, which just happens to be across the road from our new house
We expected tears and tantrums when we dropped them off but were happily disappointed… Seth ran straight to a quiet corner and started playing with some toys [...]

I don’t post often enough about two of the most important people in my life…
"The Boys"

Seth’s speech has really started to take off, he still rambles alot and most of it makes no sense at all, but, when he wants to say something he is very clear. We’ve been working on manners, so now [...]

Man I love these guys, you can spends hours watching random videos, I hope they stay around but with a burn rate of US$1 MILLION per month they better start making cashola soon.