Beyond the Rhetoric

Yes, I usually do a speedlink every Wednesday, but I haven’t had all that much time to keep up with the blogosphere while traveling through Australia. The regular link love should resume next week. In the meantime, I thought you might be interested in where I’ve been staying. We did a fair bit of comparison [...]

Largely because of its relative isolation from the rest of the world, the Outback of Australia is home to many species of animals that cannot be found anywhere else. The semi-arid regions of the Northern Territory offer what may appear to be a vast nothingness, but there is indeed plenty of fauna and flora to [...]

The Internet is everywhere, except that it’s really not. There are going to be circumstances where you won’t have that pervasive access to the web and, if you’re anything like me, you may start to feel at a loss. It’s like suddenly being without a limb. Thankfully, there are offline equivalents or suitable alternatives to [...]

“Every tree is a lavatory (‘lav-uh-tree’).” One of the greatest things about the Australian Outback is its vast nothingness. You can drive for hours before encountering any semblance of civilization. This also means that your access to modern conveniences is pretty sparse. While on my tour around places like Uluru and King’s Canyon, I was [...]

For better or for worse, I have a really hard time disconnecting from the matrix. The Internet is at once the source of my livelihood and a major component to my daily lifestyle. And so, before heading across the Pacific Ocean to Australia, I did a little bit of research about getting a prepaid plan [...]