Andrew's Inner Sanctum

Haven’t posted here for a few days and thought I’d better update the thoughts from my inner sanctum to you all. I’ve got a mini cold, one of those which is slightly more than my normal sinuses but not enough to stop me doing anything. It’s just annoying, but thankfully I’ve got the long weekend to make sure I come back to school ready for what will be a 4 day week, but one hell of a 4 day week.

I have a normal day Tuesday, followed by 2 exams on Wednesday followed by 2 days of QCS Test practice. I really really hate QCS and personally think it’s a band aid to a very broken system of senior assessment in Queensland. Then it’s holidays for 3 whole weeks before 17 weeks left of school :O – wow this year has gone fast (yet this term has gone slowly…).

This holiday will mainly involve me staying up late and co-hosting the Endeavour Online Afternoon Show with Daniel – so if you’re up late and want to listen to me just chat with Daniel and play some pretty good music, then check out www.endeavouronline.net. I’m also going on a mini holiday for a few days to visit the legend of Sydney FM radio: The Spoonman! If you’ve never heard of the Spoonman before, then he used to be a Sydney based radio talkback announcer who hosted a late night national FM talkback and rock music program. He was more edgy than the AM talkback and had radical opinions sometimes, but hosted the best show on radio at the time and usually nailed the issue he was discussing even if it disagreed with mainstream views. I’m also going to visit my friend Deanna who moved away from Brisbane in 2008 and so that will be awesome to see her again for a day

I have also spent a bit of time on YouTube and came across this awesome (but extremely random song) called Chicken Monkey Duck, so I thought I’d share this with you all!

Lastly, I have an urge for something, but I don’t actually know what it is – don’t you hate it when that happens, you want something, but you don’t know what it is you actually want?

Have a good night and thank you Queen for giving us a free holiday, I think you’ve contributed nothing else to Australia and bring on the republic, but I do thank you for a free holiday

I listen to a lot of radio, my favourite shows being Robin Terry & Bob on 97.3 FM Brisbane and The Spoonman, Paul & Rach and Ugly Phil on Sydney’s Triple M. I also listen to another great show on an online UK community station called Endeavour Online which is hosted by Daniel Pettigrew. He has started a segment on the show called the Friday Afternoon Panel which consists of a few of us Australians who listen to his show regularly. So I’m very excited that I’m on this Friday Afternoon Panel but because it comes on too late for most people in Australia to listen live (being Friday night at 11:30pm) I’ve decided to podcast the show, here on my blog for you all!

If you click the Friday Afternoon Panel Podcast button at the top of the screen, each week I’ll update this page with the latest episode of the show so you can listen to it. Please leave your comments and feedback in the box at the bottom of that page and I’ll try and respond to it on air!

You should also listen to Endeavour Online when you can as it is a great station at www.endeavouronline.net

Welcome To My Brand New Blog Everyone

As you may know, in November, my site Andrew Tech Help was taken down without notice by my then free webhost 000webhost. After this occurred I made the decision to move to paid hosting and for Christmas I received my account at the new host – JustHost!

Due to moving my site to a more capable server, I am now able to add a new section to my website, a blog.  I hope to update this blog  fairly regularly and this blog will just contain thoughts about things that are happening in the world for me. So common topics will probably involve school , radio stations and technology as well as errata in news and politics.

So if you plan to regularly read my blog, then I thank you for this and hope you enjoy the content. If you wish to leave a comment on anything I post, then go ahead – just keep it clean or the spam filters will remove it.

Andrew