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In various ways, I’ve advocated from a very young age to improve the lot of blind people – a tiny minority often misunderstood and discriminated against. But seeking to better your situation need not, and indeed should not, preclude you from being thankful for all you have. I wrote my first blog post here on …

The final part of Stephen Jolley’s chat with me for Talking Vision is now available. I don’t take up the full 30 minutes you’ll be pleased to hear, and the rest of it is worth a listen. Thanks Stephen for the chat, and here’s the audio.

It was a pleasure to be asked by Stephen Jolley to have a chat with him for Talking Vision, a radio programme on blindness issues heard across Australia. In part one of the interview, Stephen asks about my childhood and career in broadcasting, government relations and assistive technology. Bonnie’s already heard it, and says it’s …

It’s pretty scary how the years seem to speed up as you get older, don’t you think? Another year is nearly over, and for me, 2013 has been quite the wild ride. New Zealand has a wonderful tradition of extended summer breaks at this time of year, giving many people the opportunity to recharge and …

Note, this post has been copied from the Mosen Explosion blog. If you’d like to keep up with info about the show, please add http://MosenExplosion.com to your bookmarks and feel free to visit regularly. There’s nothing like a house warming! It’s a time to invite family and friends, some you may have seen regularly, others …

Since I started broadcasting with Shoutcast on its release date in 1998, most of my Internet broadcasting efforts have been quite structured. Early on in the history of Shoutcast, I came up with a project that never quite saw the light of day, the Hear Today Network. The idea was that a bunch of blind …

My RSS world has remained in some degree of flux since the demise of Google Reader. I am a huge fan of Feeddler Pro, an iOS app that is one of the third-party apps I use most often. Not a day goes by when I don’t use it for a good few minutes. Feeddler formerly …