Author Archives

writer, singer, webwrangler, blogger, comedy tragic | about.me/vivsmythe

• Quick link: no link between NT indigenous community permit system and child abuse

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01

  Andrew Bartlett writes: The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory… Read More ›

• Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01 • ( 49 )

  This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out. I am disabled. My disability is invisible. I have a mental illness. I have a disorder of… Read More ›

• Passing it on: Red Shield Day volunteers needed in South Sydney

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01

  Got an email from my MP: The Salvation Army has approached me to help recruit volunteers in South Sydney to participate in the Red Shield appeal on 24-25 May. In particular we need people in Rosebery, Redfern/Waterloo, and Erskineville. I… Read More ›

• Rudd govt anti-same-sex-discrimination bill depends on the Senate balance of power

  By tigtog on 2008-04-30 • ( 17 )

  The Age: The Age believes Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce today that he will introduce amendments to Parliament as early as next month to alter around 100 federal laws. The changes will not allow gay marriages or same-sex couples to… Read More ›

• New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 12 )

  Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored… Read More ›

• Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 5 )

  So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›

• Horrid neologism of the Day

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 4 )

  effectuating as in “effectuating real change”. Please, sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, make the compulsive adding of redundant syllables stop.

• WordPress.com enables another new “feature” to far from universal acclaim

  By tigtog on 2008-04-28 • ( 17 )

  Looking at Fire Fly’s blog, I noticed that she’s discovered that a new feature on her hosted-by-Wordpress.com blog. It turned up without direct notification, and is opt-out, not opt-in. … » Problem No.1 (She’s disabled it, and you should too if you blog on wordpress.com – see below for instructions)

• i made u a LOLswan

  By tigtog on 2008-04-27 • ( 2 )

  but he sez iz not fud moar funny pictures Edit: Because I’m an ICHC n00b, I fubared the submission of this image for consideration for the front page. The link on the image above now takes one to an official… Read More ›

• Bandwidth allowance exceeded (soon) extended – we’re back!

  By tigtog on 2008-04-27 • ( 1 )

  This means the blog will go down sometime shortly to be replaced by a message from my webhost about why you can’t see the blog. I’ve tried to get onto them to jack up the bandwidth again, but I’m not… Read More ›