Sunday, February 28, 2010

Pmac 365 Days. Day 9. WTF?


Pmac 365 Days. Day 9. WTF? , originally uploaded by PMac Imagery.

This 365 days is part of a suite of new years resolutions I'm trying to keep. An people who might have seen my blog, Mineshaft Gap, might have seen I made 10 promises to myself. I'm not going great but I am, at least, going.

Part of all that was a desire to pull my life together after literally years of neglect. Well today I opened all those boxes I've been dreading and started down the path. But now with the bits of my life I've been ignoring (to my great cost) laid bare all I can say is WTF?

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Pmac 365 Days. Day 8. Its a good life

A quick review of my 365 days so far and I got the feeling I was channeling a 14 year old EMO chick with a lot of whining about my life. True, I'm busy and stressed and feeling a little stretched thin but there's more to life (and me) that that.

Well when this was taken I was on a fantastic beach just a few minutes from my house, watching a magnificent sunrise and life was good.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

365 Days - Day 2. Driving in my car.

I've started carrying my old A100 round in the car with me with a cheap as chips 28mm prime on it as you just never know when you'll need it.

365 Days - Day 1


365 Days - Day 1, originally uploaded by PMac Imagery.

Ok, a day late but what are you going to do hey? Well I'm trying the 365 day thing. My theory is that I need all the discipline I can get to force me into newer, healthier habits. So here it goes. Some discipline.

Rather than retype all the gory details of my injury (thats arent gory at all) just following the link back to my flickr site and you can read some more about this.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Richmond Tigers - Its going to be a long year.

A really quick one to get my ideas on the net, keep my blog half way active and get a step closer to keeping a promise.

Well the first round of the NAB cup is over and its clear that the Richmond Tigers are in for a long year. In short we got spanked by Hawthorn. Still, there were some good signs and it has to be remembered we had three key players from our regular team missing against a full strength Hawk line-up.

If you want to read more the Melbourne Herald Sun and Age are the best places to go.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Blaming the right people for insulation problems

Today The Australian asked a simple question. When four people are killed installing insulation that is subsidised by the Government who is at fault?

My usual way of seeing the world is complex and layered so ordinarily I'd say something like "thats not really a simple question" and deliver a long, convoluted arguement but in this cases the question really is simple, as is the answer - the installers and the company that employed them.

No government minister climbed into a roof and laid insulation. No government minister held a gun to the head of a worker and made them climb the ladder either. On the other hand, workers that were given the opportunity to train and had standards to work to did not apply that training or standards. Employers did nothing to ensure that the training was sufficient or that industry standards were being followed.

Given that I generally assume that a company is better able to deal with the complex issues of technical integrity and OHS I would tend to lay most of the responsibility with the employer.

But I am at a loss to understand just what anyone really expected the government to do. After all government recently offered incentives to by new cars - do we hold them responsible for Prius braking problems? Government offer a first home owners grant - do we hold them responsible for dodgy builders?