We drive and drive and drive, through north west Queensland, into Northern Territory, up the Stuart Highway and finally get to Darwin. It's been ten months since we left Canberra and at last we clap our eyes on the Arafura sea and wonder...now what!

On reaching the top end we get to watch some television and, just to reinforce my last editorial, we see a story about the collapse of Worldcom.

The reporter was interviewing some of the 14,000 workers who have a very uncertain future, people with mortgages, kids, cars payments etc., all wondering how they are going to manage.

Then we cross to aerial shots of million-dollar extensions being performed on multi-million-dollar mansions owned by Worldcom executives, the same executives who cashed in their share options days before the crash.

We cross again, this time to President Bush saying what bad boys Woldcom et al are and that big business has to have higher ideals and should do the right thing. Yeah right!

Well mister Bush you didn't go far enough! These bastards are enemies of the state, they cause more heartache and pain than any gun-wielding slob knocking over a petrol station at 3AM. They should be jailed and stripped of any assets obtained in these scams.

Thud..ouch! (sound of Rob falling of soapbox).

As it happens the Worldcom farce may have a direct affect on this web site, you see it's hosted by Ozemail and it seems that Ozemail is owned by Worldcom. So if the site disappears one day it's probably because someone pulled the plug on my ISP.

Till next time then, and remember,

don't dream it, be it!