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Well, I got a letter today from The Hon. Gary Hardgrave, MP, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Parliament House, Canberra (Canberra, for those not familiar with Australia’s cities, is the nation’s capital.) Apparently, The Hon. Gary Hardgrave is pleased to tell me that my application for the grant of Australian citizenship has been approved. Continue reading →

Both of these are by Picasso, an artist whose work I appreciate but don’t really like all that much for various reasons (yes, it’s possible to appreciate things you don’t like, and if you don’t believe that, just go study art for a few years and you’ll eventually be able to do it because theyll Continue reading →

My brother-in-law works for lawyers (he’s a geek, the IT Manager, not a laywer). He rarely emails me from his work address, but now and then it comes up. Attached to all outgoing email sent by the law firm (whose name I won’t mention, but if you REALLY want to know, you could always visit Continue reading →

Well, I went to have my interview today. It was pretty straightforward. I should get a letter in about two weeks telling me my application has been approved, and then in a few months, when there’s a ceremony in my area, I’ll be contacted about going to that for my swearing in as a citizen. Continue reading →

Next week, I’m going to go to have the required interview I have to have before they can proceed with my citizenship application. No idea what they’ll ask. Presumably, they just want to see me in person, make sure I’m alive and really who I say I am, make sure I’m still living in Australia, Continue reading →

Well, according to the quiz I just took, I could spot Hannibal Lector in seconds at an Open Source conference (that’s good to know). I got 9/10, and I thought that one of the serial killers was a programming language inventor (given some of the weird computer geeks I’ve known, can you blame me?). Take Continue reading →