Michael Rentiers

Odds on me figuring out the crickets? 50:1
We are in what has to be one of the most modern hostels ever right in downtown Melbourne.  The whole dive trip and experience on the Northern coast in Queensland was amazing and worth the effort to get down here.  I screwed up and forgot my camera last [...]

You don’t have to go to the ends of the Earth, but it helps.
The whole video blogging hasn’t worked out like I had hoped.  It’s not because we didn’t shoot any, it’s that I haven’t been able to get a strong enough signal or time to upload even a 60 second video.  However, I am [...]

Do the toilets really flush backward down under?
So I’m sitting on quite a bumpy flight from Washington to Los Angeles for the first leg of a little vacation trip to Australia. I’m really pretty excited about this one and I am going to do my best to post pictures and things as we go [...]

Old Media chokes on own narrative
I used to believe that the mainstream media (termed “old media” from here on) was losing business and shuttering doors largely because they were giving their content away for free on the Internets.  And that may account for some, albeit less than I would have thought previously, of their problems.  [...]

You can keep the change
The title is a bit of an unfortunate one.  The happenings in Columbia shouldn’t be about Sanford’s fate, it should be about our fate.  That about sums up my thoughts on the matter, but since this is a blog post and not a tweet-I will continue.
I join the chorus of those [...]