How do you celebrate your country’s birthday? So many traditions, so many countries. So, with the numbers against me, I’ll concentrate on one country. Mine. Well, I have two, so I’d better be clear on this and point out that I’m talking about celebrating the 1st of August, the National Day of Switzerland. Although I…

It’s been a little while since I vented my spleen on some of my favourite annoyances. While my first post on this topic was intended to be a one-off, I liked the idea so much that I just had to write a second. Even after two, I felt unfulfilled, so along came a third annoying…

As a young apprentice lithographer, I recall the first book I was entrusted to print. It was a book published through a small publisher in Perth Western Australia, The Fremantle Arts Society. The book was A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey. It was hardly destined to be a bestseller, as the first print run was…

Yes, I know. There’s nothing epicurean about the humble sausage. Whether it be beef, pork, or whatever the butcher fancied to fill it with, the poor sausage rates pretty low on the Michelin star rating. But wait! There’s a simple and delightfully tasty way to quickly turn some ordinary sausages into, well, something palatable. All…

It was only a very short time ago that Apple’s ‘wonder god’ CEO, Steve Jobs, stated that the Kindle would fail. He was quoted as saying in January 2008 that ‘people don’t read anymore’. Well, it would seem that even ‘wonder gods’ can get it wrong. Perhaps now after three years he is rethinking the…