Competition vs Excellence in Schools

One of my favourite commentators is back on his hobby horse again this morning. I am referring to Dr Kevin Donnelly’s piece Give academic excellence in state schools a sporting chance in The Age this morning. Dr Donnelly opines that “Competition and...

Making Progress

This is really therpeutic – or else it’s just plain addictive. Whichever way you like to look at it, chriscurnow.com MkII is making progress. I’ve tweaked the templates and the style sheet. It’s getting more and more like I want it to look all...

Posts updated

OK, we’ve got all the old chriscurnow.com posts imported. Don’t ask me what went wrong – I just didn’t read the manual properly – doh!

chriscurnow.com upgrade

Whoa, If you are seeing this it means I have finally succeeded in upgrading chriscurnow.com! It started with a new iMac G5 to replace the ageing Titanium Powerbook which I was beginning to become concerned about. A couple of times it didn’t start up neatly and I...

Summer in Melbourne

Our first full day on holiday and Melbourne recorded it’s coldest minimum between Christmas and New Year since 1968. It got down to 9 degrees. It was snowing in Alpine Victoria! We had the wood heater going over night. Tuesday wasn’t quite as cold but it...
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