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          New Photos of William Ricketts SanctuarySun, 20 Feb 11

          Lots of pictures of William Ricketts Sanctuary in the gallery now, and yet they're still not all of the works of art to be experienced there. Highly recommend you visit if you can (and if you haven't got any really severe mobility issues; walking up and down stairs - albeit voluntarily - played havoc with my knees, even using my cane!).
         
          

        
      

        

          Photos of St Patrick'sSun, 23 Jan 11

          One day, I'll learn the trick to photographing stained glass windows. That being said, I put up a bunch of new photographs of St. Patrick's Cathedral in the gallery. 
         
          

        
      

        

          Victorian Parliament House PhotosSun, 23 Jan 11

          I've finished the photos I took at Parliament House on Friday, and have uploaded them to the Parliament House of Victoria gallery. Sorry to say I didn't get many good ones of the Legislative Council chamber (i.e., the upper house or Senate), because it's so astoundingly ornate and the lighting is quite tricky. Next time I'll be better prepared and I'll take a flood flash attachment and maybe get up to the visitors' gallery for some good shots. I will note that I got quite a nice shot of the Legislative Assembly chamber (i.e., the lower house) from the press area, no less. (Gallery RSS feed: http://bonni.net/gallery/srss/7)
          

        
      

        

          PhotographsSat, 22 Jan 11

          Several new photos in the Melbourne gallery, plus a Random Wedding.Lots more photos to work through, though, including a lot of Parliament House and St Patrick's Cathedral. I'll be working on those over the weekend. As always, you can check the Latest Updates gallery or just subscribe to the RSS feed for Bonni's Picture Gallery.
          

        
      


		  Bonni in a Nutshell
		  
          
            
            Born 27 May 1964
A member of Generation Jones          
			Redhead and proud of it (even if it chemically assisted; my grandmother was a redhead and I inherited her pale skin, it's just that nature got confused when it came to the hair)          
Woman and very happy to be one 
          
Rubenesque (i.e., fat) and perfectly okay with that

          Expatriate American, living permanently
            and very happily as an Australian citizen
            in Melbourne
          Very happily married to an Australian bloke I met on the net          
Educated, amusing, intelligent, very modest (obviously)
          Wielder of a dry wit and a strong sense of the absurd
          Very maternal (and a mother)          
Writer (amateur) and artist (semi-professional) 
          
          Reader (diverse subjects including history, biography, linguistics, 
            theology, poetry, spirituality, romance, literature, science fiction, general fiction, 
            historical fiction, nonfiction, parenting, Dr. Seuss, etc.)          
Ironic, sardonic, sometimes sarcastic, often satirical 
          
            Passionate about perfumes, to the point of keeping a blog on the topic of fragrance and perfumery

            Animal lover, particularly my cat          

Survivor and transcender of a dysfunctional family and of domestic violence 
          
          Serious computer geek: I have my own 24/7 network server (on which 
            this and about dozen other domains are hosted), used to work as support 
            tech at a fairly large ISP, I've been on the net since 1993, I've 
            been known to make jokes in hexidecimal code (honestly!), and I once 
            got a motherboard for Mother's Day (at my request)          
          Enthusiastic amateur photographer

          Monty Python fan. Bigtime.          
          
Deeply spiritual (Christ follower, quite metaphysical, highly eclectic, profoundly mystical, a bit Gnostic, mostly esoteric, not at all
            religious, absolutely Panentheist, generally heretical, and entirely uninterested in being converted, preached to, taught, threatened, shown the light, or otherwise have someone try to  change my point of view to match theirs)          
          Lover of history and of art and, not coincidentally, of art history          
Lover of music (all kinds, from rock to country to Motown to classical, with a particular fondness for The Beatles, George Harrison, and the Eagles) 
          
Have listed 100 Things About Me on my personal pages if you care in the least
          
Not at all deluded into thinking that you actually do care                
          Can be found on Facebook and Twitter
            

   

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This Domain in a Nutshell
Bonni.net is a personal vanity domain. Yes, folks, it's an old school personal homepage site, because I'm an old school net user and while I use various "Web 2.0" facilities, I like the personal, quirky, eccentric form of self-expression that is a personal homepage. 
I've had a personal homepage since early 1994, and bits of that original 
  site can still be seen in my personal pages and in the unicorn pages, 
  as some of the content there dates back that far. My first homepage was 
  designed without graphics, because I only had a text-only browser at the 
  time (I didn't have the right kind of connection to the internet to use a graphical browser, which, in that day and 
  age, was pretty much Mosaic). My 
  second homepage, which was graphical, was designed in Netscape 1.1. I 
  did many of the graphics on it myself, using Paint Shop Pro (version 3, 
  I seem to recall). 
This domain has been online since May 1998. It was the first domain I 
  ever personally set up, and by "set up" I mean that I registered the domain, 
  entered the DNS information on the name server, set up the virtual domain 
  in the Apache server config, set up the mail aliases, everything. I didn't 
  have the luxury of a control panel. I did it all entirely by hand. Come 
  to think of it, I still don't have a control panel and I still  do all 
  that stuff by hand...
  
  

  
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