I had some great comments on my Melbourne trip by the usual suspects. I think I now have a deeper appreciation of some of these individuals. I have to heartily agree with Hot Claws, that alcohol is a wonderful thing.
The reflections thing in the video is something that I’m building an internal fixation with. I like the additional content in each frame, and confusion that the reflection adds to a shot.
Gypsy mentioned vanilla flavoured cigars, which coincidentally was what my companion was smoking.
Specking of video.
I've posted some clips from my time on a boat off the coast of Spain last year on the Lonely Planet web site.
There is a competition on, where the video with the top number of ratings wins a new computer and camera.
I could use a new camera
Ordinarily I wouldn't spruik people like this, but it's the Lonely Planet, who are a pretty cool travel book type company, and their Ozzie.
It’s a good site, and there are lots of interesting homemade travel videos to look at, so it’s not like I’m inviting people to an Amway meeting :-)
Earlier in this blog I posted a video of the shenanigans occurring around the perimeter of the V festival which was staged earlier in the year.
I made a comment on how I was surprised how lax the security was compared with other festivals I’d seen.
Click here for previous entry...
There have been recent news reports detailing the excessive advertising that was displayed within the festival. This included a few commentators criticizing the amount of alcohol promotion that kids were being exposed to.
I guess the organizes might have been more interested in getting the kids eyeballs inside the gig then keeping them out.
The Catholics have decided to abolish Limbo.
It’s nice to see the Christians referring to this ‘limbo’ concept as a hypothesis. I wonder what other spiritual constructs will also turn out to be theoretical?
Where does this leave purgatory?
Vatican 'abolishes' limbo
The Vatican has determined that limbo does not exist, opening the gates of heaven to babies who die unbaptised, a member of a high-level theological commission told AFP today.
"The many factors that we have considered ... give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved," says a document published by the US magazine Origins with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI.
The medieval concept of limbo as a place where unbaptised infants spend eternity but without communion with God seems to reflect an "unduly restrictive view of salvation," the document says.
In 1984, when Benedict headed the Vatican's doctrinal enforcement body as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he said he was "personally" in favour of scrapping the 13th-century notion, which he termed a mere "hypothesis."
"We cannot know with certainty what will happen" when an unbaptised baby dies, said panel member Paul McPartlan. "But we have good grounds to hope that God in his mercy and love looks after these children and brings them to salvation," he said, quoted by the Catholic News Service.
The reflections thing in the video is something that I’m building an internal fixation with. I like the additional content in each frame, and confusion that the reflection adds to a shot.
Gypsy mentioned vanilla flavoured cigars, which coincidentally was what my companion was smoking.
Specking of video.
I've posted some clips from my time on a boat off the coast of Spain last year on the Lonely Planet web site.
There is a competition on, where the video with the top number of ratings wins a new computer and camera.
I could use a new camera
Ordinarily I wouldn't spruik people like this, but it's the Lonely Planet, who are a pretty cool travel book type company, and their Ozzie.
It’s a good site, and there are lots of interesting homemade travel videos to look at, so it’s not like I’m inviting people to an Amway meeting :-)
Earlier in this blog I posted a video of the shenanigans occurring around the perimeter of the V festival which was staged earlier in the year.
I made a comment on how I was surprised how lax the security was compared with other festivals I’d seen.
Click here for previous entry...
There have been recent news reports detailing the excessive advertising that was displayed within the festival. This included a few commentators criticizing the amount of alcohol promotion that kids were being exposed to.I guess the organizes might have been more interested in getting the kids eyeballs inside the gig then keeping them out.
The Catholics have decided to abolish Limbo.It’s nice to see the Christians referring to this ‘limbo’ concept as a hypothesis. I wonder what other spiritual constructs will also turn out to be theoretical?
Where does this leave purgatory?
Vatican 'abolishes' limbo
The Vatican has determined that limbo does not exist, opening the gates of heaven to babies who die unbaptised, a member of a high-level theological commission told AFP today.
"The many factors that we have considered ... give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved," says a document published by the US magazine Origins with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI.
The medieval concept of limbo as a place where unbaptised infants spend eternity but without communion with God seems to reflect an "unduly restrictive view of salvation," the document says.
In 1984, when Benedict headed the Vatican's doctrinal enforcement body as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he said he was "personally" in favour of scrapping the 13th-century notion, which he termed a mere "hypothesis."
"We cannot know with certainty what will happen" when an unbaptised baby dies, said panel member Paul McPartlan. "But we have good grounds to hope that God in his mercy and love looks after these children and brings them to salvation," he said, quoted by the Catholic News Service.
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