I think this is my third Blog Day - time flies when you’re having fun! (A first for me; this also posted at LINT. Do take a look at the other Blog Day posts there.)
Five blogs that I find interesting? My picks (I’m going to cheat a bit and call them new, even if they’re only new to me):
Ockham’s Razor, subtitled musings of the lazyst environmentalyst. Written by Clare, “a librarian doing research”, this blog is mainly about environmental issues and what we can do to reduce our impact on the planet.
How to Save the World, written by Dave Pollard. I don’t really know how to describe this blog. I suppose you could say that Dave writes about all sorts of issues to do with the future of our world. Sometimes I find myself not able to read it because I find the ideas so confronting and challenging. Always a lot to learn from this blog. Morgan first brought this blog to my attention - thanks Morgan!
Treasure Trove of Useless Information by Damien Wang, a librarian with the National Library Board of Singapore. Those Singaporeans are doing lots of interesting things!
Matilda. Perry Middlemiss writes this blog, which is all about Australian literature.
Problogger by Darren Rowse. This is definitely not a new blog, but it’s an interesting one if you want to learn more about blogging, ways to improve your blog, and ways to make money by blogging. (Not that I’ve ever considered being a pro blogger, myself. I like my day job too much 
)
Happy Blog Day! What are your favourite blogs, and why?
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Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Originally uploaded by Constance Wiebrands.
I didn’t blog this morning because I left myself with not enough time to write, after reading stuff in my aggregator and then playing with Dumpr, a site which allows you to add different special effects to your photos.
I used the “Turn your pictures old” feature on the site to change the appearance of this photo slightly. I don’t know if it looks “old”, exactly, but the effect is interesting.
The two statues, found in the Supreme Court Gardens in the city, are of the characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the gumnut babies. I was wandering around the city a couple of months back and happened to have my camera. Before then I didn’t know these statues even existed.
Finding these two did leave me wondering about all the other interesting places around Perth that I have no idea of…
Back from an unplanned hiatus. Took a couple of days off to help M celebrate his birthday, and I’ve just been too busy to blog!
The Save the Children booksale was excellent. We went not once, but twice. The first excursion was on the Friday night, and I was pleased to see that there are many, many people in this fair city for whom a booksale is a noteable Friday night event: the line of eager punters snaking out across the green outside the hall just before doors opened was amazingly long. The hall was packed with people and it was very difficult to move. The second time we went was on Monday morning. It was refreshingly different, with maybe thirty people in the hall, and lots of room to browse and read and ponder. All in all, I spent way too much money and landed myself a grand total of 85 books.
Booty (Some of the novels I found at the sale.)
Originally uploaded by Constance Wiebrands.
Other finds include：
- Kamus Lengkap Malay language Complete Dictionary by Awang Sudjai Hairul and Yusoff Khan
- ä¸å›½ä¹¦æ³•æ–‡åŒ–大观 Zhongguo shu fa wen hua da guan Compendium of Chinese calligraphy culture by 金开诚 Jin Kaicheng and 王岳å·Wang Yuechuan
- Unsur-unsur Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Indonesia Elements of Sanskrit in Indonesian by Mukunda Madhava Sharma
- Di negeri orang: Puisi penyair Indonesia eksil In someone else’s country: Poems by exiled Indonesian poets
- æ·®å—å Huai nan zi (I started trying to read this when I picked it up off the table, unsuccessfully, because it’s in classical Chinese, so of course I had to buy it.)
- 历å²ä¸“é¢˜ç ”ç©¶è®ºä¸› Li shi zhuan ti yan jiu lun cong Essays on research of historical topics by é™ˆå®‰ä» Chen Anren
- A pocket dictionary of Chinese-English and Pekingese syllabary by Chauncey Goodrich
- and a few other dictionaries to add to the collection.
What else? On Saturday we went to Cirque du Soleil. Wow. We had good seats (front row, left) and I was entranced by the performers’ costumes, their suppleness, strength and skills. I think I sat there agape for half the show and with my heart in my mouth for the other half - when watching performances high in the air above our heads. They had a juggler too - I didn’t know it was possible to juggle as fast as he did, with his pins constantly spinning. My only complaint was that his performance was too short. At the end my hands were somewhat sore from too much clapping.
Then on Monday night we went out to dinner with M’s family, to an Indonesian restaurant named Tasik (”lake”), on Aberdeen St in Northbridge. The reborn Raos. Raos disappeared from its Mt Lawley location last year, with no warning at all. Apparently they just wanted a break last year. I am very glad they have reopened. I think they’re my favourite restaurant. We had a lovely dinner and a great night. Their new premises are much bigger, but the food is the same good quality and great flavours.
You know what? I didn’t miss the Net at all.
