I had a short essay about fond memories sparked by my old passport, in Traveller in The Age & SMH on Saturday. I didn't spot it that day and it's not online yet, so I wasn't able to share the piece. I'll keep an eye out and share if it goes online.
In any case it was a fun thing to put together. I enjoy writing short, quirky essays about travel like that. Ah, my old passport...
Not surprised the City of Melbourne LGA has 60% of households with zero to one cars; I've always said you could easily live without a car in inner-city Melbourne. Would be interesting to see how many households here have precisely zero cars.
@timrichards We haven't owned a car in years - moved from Port Melbourne to West Melbourne. We've got memberships to a few carshare companies, but rarely use them. It's mostly walking and tramming.
@jpm@perkinsy Agreed, but there's no requirement to do so. Show the cops the barcode on the digital driver licence and they'll scan it with their iPad, or they'll look at your licence number and key it in… same as they do now with the plastic card.
@jpm@perkinsy None of the cops I've spoken with want to touch peoples' grotty phones. There are specific instructions and training in Queensland and Victoria (don't know for sure about NSW) saying not to touch phones. Police union is very supportive of that too. OH&S issues with touching stuff without protection.
@timrichards I also take along large-ish plastic bags (usually laundry bags liberated from hotels), which are useful for popping dirty clothes into, and/or shoes/sandals/thongs/etc.
@decryption@georgeharitosomeone's left elbow vibrates a couple of times, they slap it and it stops
Oh hey, remember when we all carried “smartphones”? Those were the days…
@luciedigitalni Ah oui! C'est l’Organisation internationale de normalisation.
Interestingly: “Because “International Organization for Standardization” would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek “isos”, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.” - https://www.iso.org/about-us.html
Re: previous Chinese language toot boost: due to the government's requirement for all shops in Xinjiang to display Chinese names on their signs, shop owners have resorted to using absurd/random Chinese names like”amorous men and women recovery centre” "teary eyes restaurant," "handsome guy hair saloon," "whatever they want pharmacy," “tired pigeon grocery” “infected mom grocery” and so on. https://m.cmx.im/@imissgmail/110690553375321445