Welcome to our home page

Header Photo: Stephen and Bernie stand in front of a rock in our backyard - Uluru (Ayer's Rock), Australia.

September 11th - Special for 2 Reasons

1. It's our 11th Wedding anniversary (married 1993)
2. A couple of building came tumbling down.

These views taken during a trip to New York for work in November 1992, just before the first bomb attack on the basement car park. The two pictures join together to give a panoramic view. The shadows are from the twin towers over Manhattan.

Trips

• Photo's of the Feb/Mar 2000 trip to Tasmania
• Photos of Central Australia trip part 1 in September 2000
• Photos of Central Australia trip part 2 in June 2001
• Photos of Central Australia trip part 3 in July 2002
• Bernie's [& brothers] Chasem Charter's fishing trip - 10 Oct 2004
• Photos of Central Australia trip in June-July 2005

Photo of Pink Lakes in the Yanga-Nyawi (Murray-Sunset) National Park, 1999.

We had a trip to Pink Lakes in the Yanga-Nyawi (Murray-Sunset) National Park, west of Ouyen in Victoria in 1999. These lakes have a natural pink tinge, due to bacterial activity, to the salt that forms. The salt was mined until the 1960's. (The Photo does not pick up the pink colour very well!).

Family

• Photos of Nephew Chris in a Williams F1!
• Photos of Aunty Mary's 90th Birthday

We have moved house in July 2007 into a brand new Simonds Home!

• We have been in our house 1 Year already!
• Here is the latest in the story of House building!
• House Preliminary Build Phase Page
• House Frame Build Phase Page
• Time to sell our current Clayton North House! - SOLD in 12 days!

Bernie & I have taken up Go-Karting!

Here is Bernie in action in her Arrow Silver Anniversary AX6 kart fitted with a Yamaha 100 cc 'S' motor.

At Oakleigh Go-Kart track we hit 80 Kph (50 mph)!

More kart photos taken 25/4/03 at OGKRC track

Want to know more on Go Karting, visit the club's and the other relevant sites:

• Oakleigh Go Kart Racing Club
• Victorian Karting Association
• Australian Karting Association
• Drew Price Engineering
• Arrow Karts
• Spengler Race Team Home Page

Other Stuff

• Tokyo Photos from an earlier life circa 1980
• Link to my Learning HTML page
• Joe Maller's home page for some Java Script for hiding your email address!

Strephonics - My business web site

• Strephonics - My business web site

GetUp! Australia against internet content filtering

The government has proposed to filter out objectional material from the internet. The more you interfer with internet data the slower it transfers. If you have to pass each packet through a filter to check for unwanted web addresses and/or content, then anyone with a brain can work it out that the data will be slowed.

It will have to have a large database of sites and /or objectional words, which will have to be maintained. If you have ever used a database, ie google search, you know it takes time to do the task. There are already reports incorrectly blacklisted sites on the database, so a legitimate business could have their site banned. Who do they call to fix the issue and how long will it take to be removed from the list? It could cost business people money and would they then be entitled to compensation?

There are programs available to do this at the PC. A small delay at your PC to stop unwanted material is fine, but to delay every bit of traffic in case there may be questional material, is ridiculous.

Imagine the chaos if a police check was setup on the Monash Freeway, during peak period, to check for unroadworthy vehicles or unlicenced drivers. Yes they will find 20-200 cars and/or drivers, but in the process, delay tens of thousands of drivers from legitimate work and travel. Image the screams!