I lived with no TV for 18 months. It was surprisingly easy, once you get past the withdrawal pains.

After having 4,300 channels of Everyone Love's Raymond and Law and Order for the duration of my time in Canada, I look upon Australian free to air TV with a fond quaintness.

As for JJJ - we've agreed to listen to other people for a while. They've been doing that thing that they do where the playlist is boring and repetitive and I stop listening for a few months. After this hiatus, we, as usual, just hang-out again like nothing has happened.

In the interim, I've become a nerd and have been listening to Richard Fidler of DAAS on the Local ABC AM station 612 or ABC News Radio on 963.

Finally, If it weren't for podcasting, I'd have gone berko. The quality of programs released by Our ABC and the BBC is simply amazing. NPR is also quite good.