Rampant cynicism

kahmelb | August 28, 2009

Jaysis I’m a cynical bugger at times.
The lovely lady who sells coffee down at my train station of a morning, and is therefore solely responsible for me surviving each AM commute, just told me there’s a community meeting around our way this weekend. And as usual for ‘community meetings’ in our tree-burbia when summer is [...]

Guarantees

kahmelb | August 20, 2009

Bushfires kill. In case you hadn’t noticed. Considering that in February last year even the population of Edinburgh – and I’m talking the cosmopolitan northern hemisphere city known for snow and cold, not the fictional middle-Melbourne suburb on an aging local soap – was well aware of this fact, saturated as even the media on [...]

Media Death Match

kahmelb | August 10, 2009

Hands up all those who didn’t laugh hysterically last week when Ol’ Uncle Rupert started talking about “quality journalism” and his plans to make readers of News Corp websites pay to access it? Even the Huff Post got in on the act with a headline which read: “Murdoch to charge for news online ‘if we [...]

kahmelb

Writer, photographer, researcher.

kahmelb is the handle you'll most often find me using online, well, at least on those sites where I'm happy to be publicly identified and which wouldn't make my mother blush. Much.


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kahmelb

kahmelb is better known as Kathryn Hore, a writer and photographer based in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia.