About
I’m a freelance web developer and Union Official. I am in my early thirties and recently moved to London from Melbourne Australia.
I have been a freelance web developer since 2009 and started the company, Spire Software, with two friends in 2010. For details about my freelance work please see home page or the Spire Software site.
I have been employed by or involved with the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice (which I founded in 2005), the Health and Community Services Union and OurCommunity.com.au as well as others in the past.
I also have two online ‘pet projects’: Your Voice in House and Sommelier.net.au. I encourage you to visit both.
This blog was first started in March 2004, initially hosted by Blogger, and was intended to provide me with a forum to explore the issues and ideas that came up whilst writing my masters thesis.
Now days it is a pretty eclectic mix of the personal, political and programming.
I try to post regularly but rarely do.
Contact
You can contact me via email: hammy@goonanism.com
Comments Policy
I don’t really have a comments policy and want to keep it that way. Please feel free to say what you want. Whilst this blog is less political these days I always encourage plenty of comments – obviously they’re good for my ego debate/democracy and warm fuzzy feelings etc.
However I do reserve the right to remove any comment I feel like. I may or may not explain my actions to you, I may also bar you from commenting.
So if there are to be rules, then there only needs to be one rule: I decide. As a rough guide thought, the idea is “play the ball, not the man”.
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The deeper I go into your site and ideas the more impressed I am by them. We need to articulate this idea of “deep democracy” much more widely and get it debated vociferously by the wider media and community (it should come into being as a term and concept on Wikipedia – rapidly becoming my main yardstick for educating myself about the world).
Cheers,
Greg