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• Updates

  I HAVE FINALLY UPGRADED the theme and CSS of this blog to something that is actually workable and viewable on a phone. Once in every decade seems about right for that kind of thing. Gentium remains an incredibly cool typeface and you should use it. Also updated is the About page which has additions accruing on top, hiding the old, an archaeological stratum on top of another, like a midden pile slowly growing over a mound of generational garbage, and that is an image I think as appropriate to this website as any there'll ever be.

  Posted 9 April 2025 | Author Liam Hogan

• Theme

  THE BLOG HAS A default theme for now, by popular demand.

  Posted 10 March 2025 | Author Liam Hogan

• Locations

  TWITTER HAS BEEN BOUGHT, and will become, presumably, Elonian, meaning heroic, disorganised, and centred on the self-image of its owner above any function. As it, and other highly-centralised social media ‘places’ appear to be at inflection points of utility, perhaps we can find other smaller and disaggregated places to be.

  I post at aus.social, put pictures up at flickr, and at instagram (though rarely). And I aim to blog here more frequently…

  Posted 31 October 2022 | Author Liam Hogan

• Much Time And Little To Do

  WHEN I STARTED THIS blog in 2011 I had recently been made redundant, and was retraining completely to enter a new field. Little did I know then that the stretch of unemployment and underemployment I was about to go through would be a lot longer than I expected. Even less did I consider the mental health implications of being so far from the world of regular routine work. The time has come again, though perversely, for the moment I’m still in a full-time job; social distancing (which is experienced by every jobseeker) has a way of turning into social isolation, and from isolation to exclusion.

  Thankfully we have some literary practices left from the old world to guide us into the new. Get a blog.

  Posted 18 March 2020 | Author Liam Hogan

• Trove

  I HAVE BEEN INFORMED that this blog is now officially archived by the National Library of Australia and is accessible in trove.

  I am both honoured, and ashamed of this, my own personal crime against the national heritage.

  Posted 9 December 2019 | Author Liam Hogan

• If You Can't Stand The Workplace, Get Back In The Kitchen

  IF YOU ARE READING THIS now, it means I have been made unemployed, and I am an unemployee.

  You’re probably also wondering about the odd title for this blog…

  Posted 27 March 2011 | Author Liam Hogan