Author Archives: Ian Short

Have you received a Facebook Friend request from someone who is already a Friend? Or maybe some of your existing FB Friends have told you that they have received a second Friend request that you know nothing about. Has your … Continue reading →

I’m excited about the new web site https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/. Presented by History SA (of which I’m a Trustee), Adelaidia is an interactive way of finding out about and engaging with our city’s past and present. It tells the stories of the … Continue reading →

It was an honour to be re-elected as Vice-President of the Weekend Warriors Music Club (SA) at the club’s AGM today. Weekend Warriors is a club for recreational musicians and singers to meet like-minded people, form bands and ensembles, find … Continue reading →

Just returned from an enjoyable gig with Wound Up at James Nash House to help celebrate World Mental Health Day. What could be more authentic than playing rock and roll in the gym? Thanks to the patients and staff for … Continue reading →

The Dutch Tall Ships left Port Adelaide on Sunday 1 Sept en route to Kangaroo Island. I was a guest on the racing yacht Alliance which accompanied them on the first part of their journey along the South Australian coast. … Continue reading →

Our hotel is in the old city, just a few hundred metres from the Blue Mosque. From the terrace of the rooftop restaurant, we looked straight down at the floodlight mosque on a velvet night under a full moon, with … Continue reading →

I just “borrowed” my first e-book from a library. South Australian recently introduced a “one card” system. That means you belong to a State-wide virtual library comprising every municipal and community library in South Australia. Your one card gives you … Continue reading →

Several people asked me what it meant when I tweeted “Rudd and Turnbull on qanda. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”. QandA is of course the ABC TV talk show on which both former PM Kevin Rudd and former Leader of … Continue reading →

Back in September last year, I wrote a post about a submission I had written for Syngas, which won them R&D funding for field trials for the collection of waste biomass for use as a potential supplementary energy feedstock. Afterwards, … Continue reading →

When I was born on this very day not so many years ago, a pint of beer cost eleven pence. A loaf of bread was four pence ha’penny and a pound of butter cost one shilling and four pence. King … Continue reading →