klausenrussell.com

Update...

2021-10-14T10:22:00.004+11:00

I exist. I am real. Well, real enough to cause myself some damage.

Apologies for not staying up to date and posting more often, but, well... Life.

No excuses. I'll be back.

General disclaimer: thoughts and musings are my own. Opinion is opinion, and if unattributed, it's likely mine. If I quote, I link. Please use your discretion. I am not giving medical or legal advice, either!

Specific warning: if I post to a link which references a product or service, it may be something that I am selling (a service, product, advice, or photography) or something provided via Amazon's provisioning and delivery enterprise. Which is a reminder that as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Did I mention photography? I use Nikon gear mostly, and they pay me nothing for mentioning that. I use Skylum's Luminar editing software, and they may give me something in return (could be a commission) if you follow a link here back to their site.

I may also be found on Quora, and some content there earns me a few cents. I may be on other sites, like Medium, too. And Flickr. And Instagram.

I may be found also on Patreon. If you want to patronise me, go right ahead.

And finally, I have a tip jar via PayPal. If you find my musings useful, consider a contribution. I'd appreciate it.

All the best, and take care.

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Still here.

2021-07-23T07:38:00.004+10:00

Sorry about the ongoing failure to post, but I have plans to get back to something more consistent... soon.

In the meantime, you may like to follow me on Quora. I do post there (almost daily) on many topics, including finance, business, economics, society, and science.

Stay well, keep safe.

Where we are, geographically speaking

2011-01-31T13:07:00.002+11:00

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Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.

2010-01-04T17:08:00.002+11:00

Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Some rain, even light and a camera - what more can I say?

Web links - an index of sorts

2006-09-13T10:11:00.000+10:00

It may not look like it but I have been busy. Apart from working for a living - which is not what you see here - I have been creating or updating a few blogs and image galleries... like...

My portals

My Alfa pages

The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
All about Alfas, especially GTVs
The car gallery

My bike racing pages

Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
Bike racing for almost anyone
The bike gallery

My myths and Legends pages

Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia

My sustainable business pages

The business of sustainable business
My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
Out Out Damned Blog - a wilder ride
The Offline blog for quieter web-rants

My overly long list of blogs

Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
The site that started it all for me in 1995, Colnago - the blogger
The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia
The Abecedarian Insult: A2Z, the blog
Stuff I think you all mustknow
All about Alfas, especially GTVs
The business of sustainable business
Bike racing for almost anyone
The Offline blog for web-rants
My all purpose writing blog
The Class of 75 blog
The gtveloce.com-munity blog
My genealogy research blog
Out Out Damned Blog - a wild ride

My image galleries

DAP: the digital image gallery
My mostly digital image blog
DAR: the digital art gallery
The aviation gallery
The aviation image blog
Trams, trains and buses... yet another gallery
The bike gallery
The car gallery
The flora and fungus gallery (I kid you not)
The New Fortian gallery
The Original Fortian gallery

Community and networking pages

Sponsors and other pages

Buy my mugs and t-shirts from Cafepress
Buy my books and images from Lulu
The mustknows

My sponsors... great deals on great stuff

Surely that's enough for now!

Rob's reading list, part 1

2006-08-25T11:37:00.000+10:00

Way out but worth it

Because I can, I will share here some weirder choices from my personal bookshelf. You may not agree with 'weird', indeed weird is the wrong word. Nevertheless I use it advisedly in the sense that I will cover subjects beyond literal truth. And I use truth advisedly as mathematics is the only provable truth. Everything else is either awaiting a mathematical proof or is a belief, a theory or an assumption.

Just to explain my thinking: you may believe in what you can see, hear and/or touch, and that's cool; but it's not necessarily a literal truth. Even if a thousand people see, hear and/or touch that thing it doesn't make it true. It may be real enough to the people concerned but it's not an incontrovertible truth. It may be an illusion. It may be a shared thought. It may be a shared assumption. It's something, but it's not a literal truth. To be a literal truth requires proof. To my mind we can only be certain of mathematical proofs, as I haven't seen any other proof that convincingly lives outside the mind or perception of man.

And I could be wrong about maths. Perhaps there is no independent proof? Ahhh, but that's an undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns....

So to the first installment of my 'way out but worth it' booklist, in no particular order:

Bill Shakespeare's works in full. An essential lesson in the use of the English language, up there with Fowler's.

The Elegant Universe (by Brian Greene. Post-Einstein string theory to get you thinking.)

Anything by Richard Dawkins or Stephen Jay Gould. As I said, there are mathematical proofs and there are theories. Some theories are more compelling than others.

The Torah (the Pentateuch, the Book of Moses: a lively read, basis for Judaism and the Old Testment and a fascinating read on any level)

The Bible (Greek for 'Books'; The Old and New Testaments: basis for the Christian cults and a brilliant read)

The Koran (Arabic for 'Recital': another excellent piece of writing and the basis for Islam. I have the Dawood translation)

The History of Magic (by Eliphas Levi: a great, compelling read. Spot the a ha! 'Harry Potter' moments and see the footprints of Rowling's research)

The Theory of Celestial influence (by Rodney Collin: immensely detailed, it wallows around trying to 'prove' a case scientifically but falls magnificently short. Can be heavy, clumsy and painful to read... but still worth it for the determined!).

That's just for starters. Let me know what you think.

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Resources at KlausenRussell.com

2006-07-03T16:23:00.000+10:00

Folks, this is a community project focused on the Russell and Klausen families in Australia. It's also a way by which I can stretch my own understanding of various web tools and techniques. So you can not only see how various products or tools like Blogger or Textpattern work, you can see some reasonably interesting content as well.

On with the show. We have the following resources here to amuse you (or maybe just me).

Written in pure HTML we have the Russell, Klausen, Matthews, Brown and O'Brien and family photo archive and the attached family genealogy blog by courtesy of Blogger.com
We also have a family Gallery to which others can register and submit relevant images
And we have the PHP-Nuke-CMS based and joinable KlausenRussell.com-munity which contains a growing array of articles, images and links plus a forum
We have other image galleries, too. Start from here and then go here as well
In the spirit of trying different ways to do the same thing we have a test of Textpattern called Rob's Folly
And a business resources blog called the spiel on business once again by courtesy ofBlogger.com by which I can share some items of possible interest to MBA students
Not to mention a test of WordPress to create the bike, environment and business blog Out Out Damned Blog
And lastly Rob's other folly, a Writing Blog, once more provided via Blogger.

Please enjoy and/or feedback via comments.

Welcome to the KlausenRussell.com-munity!

2006-06-12T04:40:00.000+10:00

Folks, this is the portal for access to the klausenrussell.com community. It's comprised of forums, galleries, blogs and articles. The focus is on family, philosophy and the environment - although you'll find lots of Alfa and bicycle content, too.

Have fun prowling around!

Cheers, Rob.