My Experience with the Australian DVA
Posted on February 5, 2020
It took 324 days to see a psychologist for treatment through the Australian DVA. The DVA paid 3rd parties $8,782.40 for assessments prior to the beginning of my treatment and had spent $13,986.50 on 3rd parties by the end of my treatment. My psychologist only charged the DVA $2,433 for...
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Let them eat wedding cake
Posted on September 24, 2012
In early 2012 the House of Representatives conducted an online survey to provide a simple means for the public to voice their views on same-sex marriage. When the survey closed on the 20th of April, it had received 276,000 responses, 64.3% of them in support of same-sex marriage. However, last...
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Sunday fishing
Posted on August 5, 2012
Fishing (not catching) at the Basin on this beautiful Sunday afternoon.
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Trampoline Day Sydney
Posted on April 15, 2012
Trampoline Day is a self organised event and today was the first time the event had been held in Sydney. It is a two way dialogue where anyone who wishes gets an opportunity to run a talk. Mine was on Open Source and I’ll upload the YouTube video shortly. Here are my notes from today....
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Sail fail
Posted on January 3, 2012
We’re at the Basin which is about 2km north of our starting location. It’s a lovely place but I think the Australian land mass us moving north faster then us. The winds weren’t favourable and the East Australian Current (the underwater highway in Finding Nemo) wanted to go south. After...
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Sails set for Brisbane
Posted on January 1, 2012
The Laura Court has set sails for the trip to Brisbane. Alan (skipper), Gaten, John, helan, and myself onboard. First scheduled stop is Port Stephens which with current winds should be in our sights by early tomorrow morning.
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Cross Coffee
Posted on October 7, 2011
Recently I moved to the Kings Cross area and have noticed a big difference in the quality of coffee so I’ve started rating the shops on coffee quality alone (my drink of choice is a latte with honey on the side). Then I pushed the info into a Google Map...
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Train trips
Posted on July 4, 2011
I have been catching the train from Newcastle to Sydney a couple of times a week lately. There is some really stunning views from Hornsby to Gosford so I snapped some images on my phone and here they are.
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ARDEV Camp Sydney
Posted on June 8, 2011
I’m currently at the Augmented Reality Developers Camp at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. I’ll edit this post during the day as new interesting things come up :) Links http://www.ardevcamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=ARDevCamp_Sydney_2011_resources Remixing Reality Mozilla Demo Junaio AR demo video https://github.com/cedricpinson/osgjs/tree/master/examples Got Gastro Data.gov.au Build AR Things to research keyhole markup language...
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Heading home from Afghanistan
Posted on May 8, 2011
D’s get degrees too apparently, that was a nice surprise. I’m settling back into civi life, walking slower and getting use to checking I’ve got my phone and keys as opposed to checking I’ve got my pistol and ID. After biding goodbye to my comrades in KAF we spent 3...
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Scooter for an art work
Posted on April 23, 2011
I’m back from my little trip :) My little scooter looked pretty lonely while I was away and I want him to feel important and loved again so I’ve put him up on Gumtree to try and swap him for an art work or a funky teapot.<table WIDTH=100%> <tr VALIGN=TOP>...
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My recent adventures
Posted on September 28, 2010
For the last few months I’ve been really really busy and haven’t had time to blog :( There are no signs of getting any free time in the near future but here is a quick update of what’s new in my world. Toe shoes (Vibram five fingers), an antique Soviet...
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Wildlife in Pittwater
Posted on May 27, 2010
Once a week I volunteer for the Street Mission sailing program. We take clients for a sail around Pittwater which is the next harbour north of Sydney. Here are some photos of wildlife I’ve taken. This is a pretty little bird that visited our boat.</p> There were thousands of jellyfish,...
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Vote for Policies and Windsors
Posted on May 2, 2010
I came across an interesting site for the UK election. Vote for Policies suggests which party a user should vote for based on their selection of policies. The user selects issues that concern them, for instance Health, Education etc, and then is given a selection of the policies of the...
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Greg Verse Poseidon and Aeolus
Posted on May 22, 2009
I’m back on dry land after 4 days battling Poseidon and Aeolus. My father and I had planned to sail to Lord Howe Island, spend a few days, and then return. The voyage began at noon on Tuesday after some boat maintenance. Before we had left sheltered Pittwater Aeolus was...
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Back home
Posted on May 11, 2009
Today is the last day of my full time contract with the army. Tomorrow I’m back to being a jobless bum until June when I start studying again at which time I become a student bum. The last day in country was an eye opener. On the way to the...
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I've got more sisters
Posted on November 9, 2008
Janell became one of us yesterday and I gained two more sisters. The service was held on Clark Island in Sydney harbour. It was a lot of effort but it really paid off and it was a great day. Stu and Janell showed off a ceroc routine for their first...
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BFA and power point
Posted on October 23, 2008
Mark and the others went to the pub. After the BCCC I’m keen to have some quite nights. I passed my fitness test today so didn’t feel guilty about eating desert at lunch today :) The test was at some ridiculous hour and because I was the only one getting...
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BCCC
Posted on October 20, 2008
Today I started continuous full time service for the Australia Army, one day down 202 to go. We had a fitness test (I failed the run :S), filled out some paper work, got some patches denoting our operation, and listened to brass talk about what colour shorts to wear. Then...
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Meeting Zander
Posted on January 3, 2008
The Family and I sat outside the delivery rooms all day waiting for word of our latest member. Zander Ty Sampson was born at 16:24 on the 2nd of January 2008. He is my latest nephew and is a strange red colour with brown hair. My premination about his sex...
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Home to meet Oliver :)
Posted on December 27, 2007
Biram closed the city of Istanbul and I was lucky to get my christmas shopping done. I found a few little stores but my barging powers were greatly reduced as the grand bizzar was closed :( It also meant I missed out on islamic art galleries which I was really...
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Left Australia :'(
Posted on April 4, 2007
Left Perth next stop Kuala Lumpur then London
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Light Entertaining
Posted on April 1, 2007
I’m playing hang overs after a big night. Nathalie and I entertained some of Nat’s friends at her dad’s apartment in North Bridge. It’s a really cool apartment with a balcony on the main strip of Perth’s night area. We cooked a cake and I offered some to some passing...
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Still in Perth
Posted on March 31, 2007
I’m still in Perth spending time with Natty and her family. We’ve been spending some time at Nat’s Dads place right in the centre of town. It’s noisy on a Saturday night and by saying that I feel old. We went dancing the other night, which was pretty cool. I’m...
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Arrived in Perth
Posted on March 24, 2007
I Arrived in Perth.
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Chilling in Melbourne
Posted on March 23, 2007
I just said goodbye to Ninny :’( That’s the last I’ll see of my family for a while. I’m off to Perth tomorrow then leaving for London on the 4th of April with my girlfriend Nathalie. I want to learn comedy in another language so I might be away for...
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In Melbourne
Posted on March 22, 2007
I’m in Melbourne visiting Ninny’o, my sister. She’s got a little person growing inside her and she showed me a video of the creature :) On tuesday Nath and I were ushers at Aleesha and Dylans wedding. Nath didn’t do much ushering but having him stand next to me made...
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Arrived in Melbourne
Posted on March 21, 2007
I arrived in Melbourne
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I'm in Newcastle
Posted on March 18, 2007
I’ve left Sydney and am in Newcastle with my sister and new brother in law. My Dad drove me up. I’m no longer a postie and I’m excited about my travels. I don’t have to get up at 5 tomorrow so I’m quite happy. My going away party was on...
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Arrived in Newcastle
Posted on March 18, 2007
I arrived in Newcastle
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Greg goes for a drive and dances
Posted on December 3, 2006
On Friday I travelled down to Canberra to see my brother and his fiancés’ new place. I drove my dads van down and was paying the toll at the entrance to the Sydney harbour tunnel when a really annoying alarm went off. Some people in fluoro vests scrambled and then...
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