Murray Woodman

As I was watching the recently completed Ashes series this year I began to ponder the issue of how a bowler’s average is calculated. Is the current a bowlers average the only measure we can use? How can we accommodate the quality of the batsmen dismissed. I think that the current method could be augmented so that we have a more insightful way of discriminating between bowlers.

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Here are a few ideas I picked up from browsing images in Flickr. I just went for a bit of a hunt through the interesting images until I found a good image and then documented the arresting feature. What I ended up with was a list of hints to try to remember next time I’m out and about taking photos.

If you have any photographic techniques then I would love to hear about them in the comments.

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Australians are being pressured financially as resources (water, oil) become more scarce and expensive. There is a confusingly wide range of options available to households and consumers to help them become more green. more…

People make decisions today with future outcomes in mind. The risk averse will act conservatively and are likely up giving up more than they gain as they take on a defensive position. ie. they have not considered the opportunity cost of what they do. How can we get people to look at their lives from a new perspective? more…

A show to entertain audiences with strength, precision and beauty. more…

Railway lines lessen the quality of life for residents through noise and visual pollution. How can we minimise these problems? more…

A simple game for bored people with not much else to do. more…

TV sets are now so massive that they dominate a room completely. A significant proportion of a room is devoted to them. We need to make more of this space. more…

Apparently extremely flawed diamonds are almost worthless as they have no ornamental value. Not sure if they have industrial value. Some of them get to large sizes – 5 carets. It should be possible to use these low quality diamonds in a decorative manner. more…

I just went to visit the diamond exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in London. The Millennium Diamond was on display along with a number of others. This idea is not new – it is a rehash of a piece of jewelry I saw at the exhibition. The jewelry in this case was a number of coal pieces about the size of a large marble wrapped with diamond studded braces. The pieces were strung together to form a necklace. more…