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We stay in YHA Civic and used to stay in Carotel Watson and visit the National Library of Australia for research purposes. NLA has all the newspapers there. This was for research for S Preston Walker's books 'Enriching Australia through educating indigenous people' on Mt Margaret and NSW and 'The Bible to thousands' for the Bible Society in QLD and NSW.
Local news is in Canberra Times. Public transport is by ACTION buses. AllHomes.com.au lists real estate. Canberra is expensive to rent or buy a house.
A new Canberra Airport Terminal is being built for $200M with a Brindabella Business Park only 4 years old right next to it. Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) is very close to the airport. The road to the airport has been upgraded to a 2 lane highway to cope with the increased traffic to the business park and airport. There is real growth in Canberra with in effect only 2 layers of government to manage the projects so less hindrances than other states who have 3 layers of government. The airport has no curfew so has longer operating hours than Sydney Airport making it very competitive for overflow traffic and southcoast flights.
Webblast was held in December 2009 at SMS Management and Technology at Brindabella Business Park which I attended and met many Web designers and developers in Canberra.
From 28/9/09 to 11/10/09 I busked as folk fiddler at several locations in the Tilt Busking Festival briefly as part of Floriade and mainly in Canberra Citywalk area.
In November 2009, we setup a Flash Website based on a template for a bookshop in Curtin ACT. This includes a calendar based on iCal uploaded from Mac OS X.
In April-May 2010, we had 1 violin student in Kippax via Belconnen. We installed new strings on the student's violin and taught them in their home.
I go to Canberra City Uniting Church. This city has a tendency for members to leave or shop around with churches due to personal convictions that they are more holy than the established church which plays into disunity and more secularism. More prayer and involvement would definitely stop this bad trend. I guess this is post-modernism.
In May 2010, I played violin for a family service at St Columba's, Braddon, a very friendly, warm, lovely congregation I would recommend visiting or joining - a real blessing!
In December 2009, we continued business leads in Canberra. Here we can tender for Australian Government contracts. In January-February, April-June and August 2010, we rebuilt capital, turning the corner on funding.
From September 2010, cost of staying in Canberra got too dear so I am only visiting briefly now. This ends 1 year of work in Canberra with busking and Web development.
Created 14 Sep 2009 11:20