Here's Why

A blog is born

I finally put a blog live, after sifting through Moveable Type, with encouragement from my friend Matthew. I’ve put off trying to put my whole website into Moveable Type management to some other time.

I’ve given my wife Emma her own blog to play with.

We finally got Emma’s bridging visa B yesterday after much hoopla, and we’re visiting Canada VERY soon! Like in less than two weeks!!!!!!!!!

Without this piece of paper, she wouldn’t have been allowed back to Australia. It turns out the call center’s advice was wrong, and it only takes 10 minutes to get the document if you go into the office, rather than the five weeks we waited on the “quick” postal application - which was then cancelled or lost. I’m glad I offered to keep Emma company, and had my credit card handy. Emma’s wallet went missing last weekend, so she would have been stuck with only cash to pay the fee. Naturally, the office refuses to take cash.

We get to try out IBurst wireless 1Mbs broadband before we go for free, which is an excellent deal. Its very smooth and very fast. I hope the ISP they go with has an uncapped plan.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Physics, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, Cisco CCNA tutor, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to professional writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Discovery science show on radio 2SER 107.3Fm Mondays at 9am in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Discovery sound archives.