Author: Rae Allen

  • any season is a good season

    In spring, hundreds of flowers;
    In autumn, a harvest moon;
    In summer, a refreshing breeze;
    In winter, snow will accompany you.
    If useless things do not hang in your mind,
    any season is a good season for you.

    – Mu-mon 1228

  • morning glory

    The morning glory blooms but an hour.
    Yet it differs not in heart from a giant pine,
    That lives for a thousand years.

    – Matsunaga Teitiku

  • Do not deny not by denying

    Do not deny not by denying.

    – zen saying

    “It has been told that Nature abhors a vacuum.
    I disagree.
    Nature doesn’t mind a vacuum.
    It is man that continually insists on filling them.”

  • More sayings

    The facts, although interesting, are generally irrelevant.

    The world gets a little better every day, and worse in the evening.

    Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

    The other line always moves faster… until you get in it.

    Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.

    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

    Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.

    It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything good.

    I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

    To live forever, acquire a chronic disease and take care of it.

    Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

    If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.

    If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

    One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

    The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

    Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

  • Transcript: Launch of “The Backyard” in 1999

    Launch of The Backyard: ABC Local Online

    Tuesday 28 September 1999

    Good evening and thank you all for attending this launch. We see here today a culmination of the ABC’s response to two prodigious challenges: budget cuts and the new media.

    On both scores the ABC has prevailed with sharp and imaginative flair .
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  • First corporate web site for 612 ABC Brisbane

    In 1998 I built my first web site, a corporate brochure site for 612 ABC Brisbane, then called 4QR.

    Looking back on the frames based navigation, the animated email gif, and the rather cumbersome graphics it seems somewhat naive.

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  • Negotiation skills

    In November of 1998 I took part in, and completed an intensive “Negotiation Skills” course.

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  • Straw Bale House

    In the late 1990’s I stopped off in Maleny, Queensland where I interviewed architect Ahtee Chia about the straw bale house he had built.

    Links

    Talent: Ahtee Chia, architect and builder

    ( To air: Weekends, 6 March 1998, Duration: 04:56 )

  • 4WD defensive driving

    In 1996, I took part in and completed a defensive driving coursde for 4WD.

    The course was arranged after several accidents involving ABC staff unused to the power of the 4WD, nor used to driving on roads that leave a bit to be desired.

  • Robert Jordan, author

    In 1993 I interviewed, Robert Jordan, a fantasy author from the United states.

    Probably best known for his mammoth series “The Wheel of Time“, he also wrote a number of the “Conan the Barbarian” books, and is less well know for a period romance trilogy “Fallon

     


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