Interpretation of what he was trying to say:- (by lynchy)
Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies & Gentlemen:-
Attention Seeking.
Well i guess everyone might agree, Life on earth is a wondrous string of events, but it's PARTICularly our attention seeking abilities that bring about the most changes that effect our Lives. In the beginning we instinctively learn to cry out for; Love, food and attention. We manage to manipulate our attention seeking beheavoir for generally appropriate responses, changing or stopping others in their tracks to do something because of it or at least bring about some alteration to thinking patterns.
Back in 1984 I moved onto a bit of dirt out in the hills at Palmer's Oaky. This was a Lifelong dream for subsistence living and Survival. I spent the first ten years at least alone, with lots of Time to ponder and plan. Riding on horseback around the mountains, I always wondered what on earth you could say that would blow people away, make them sit up and take notice, and change their Lives forever. What was it that would rock them off their feet for a change that would see EVERYONE begin a new way of Life?
I listen to abc radio a lot and one day i heard an address from the press club in Canberra. A-bloke was talking about the Internet. For me at least it was before computers, infact I don't think I really knew what a computer could do at the Time or even was:- but the concept that you could put up a web page anyone on around the globe with a connection could see, hear and react on was mind boggling. It gave me the hunch to how I might bring about some changes. Of course, once that seed had sprouted, lynchy's was away.
In 1993 wool prices collapsed, and luck for me but not my boss who was forced to put me off. After a year or so with no paid work I moved to the Blue Mountains and soon after started a job with a funeral directors. I bought a computer and between the odd jobs, it was funeral attendant on call, I would muck away on the pooter and eventually had my first, very simple page up. I was blown away with excitement, to think I was out there in cyberspace and anyone could see. I registered my url with as many search engines as I could find and think I might have invented spamming and did a bit of that. After a lot of mucking about I managed to organise a hit counter and was totally thrilled once I could see a few hits taking place.
Over the next few years the website soon became a promotional advocacy for Golden Boomerang Landcare and a tool of debate for democracy. My dream is now to come up with the words that will blow the globe away into an overnight conscience shift that on the next morning finds everyone hugging one another on the streets and saying, ' what was all that about', stopping fighting altogether and beginning new Lives.
