Archive for the 'General' Category

Two weeks with Twitter…

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A little over two weeks ago, I succumbed and decided to see exactly what the deal with twitter was. It just didn’t seem like a wonderful tool – SMS for the web? Really? But, in the spirit of inquiry, I thought I’d give it ago. Now, a bit over two weeks later, I can say “I’m glad”.
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Warning: get off housing gravy train – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

There’s an opinion page on the ABC News page about the increasing rise in house prices (and the subsequent fall in housing affordability). The solution presented: build more housing (not necessarily houses – apartments are okay too), thus increasing the supply. Unfortunately, that won’t help.
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Wage growth does not automatically equate to inflationary pressure…

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

One of my coworkers tossed out this line today: “We can’t just increase the minimum wage, because that would cause inflation”. I said at the time that didn’t have to be the case, and I just thought I’d capture my reasoning in writing.
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The Downfall of Agile Hitler

Turns out we DID come from monkeys

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Mirror: Turns out we DID come from monkeys! (by AronRa)

Happy Darwin Day!

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Happy Darwin Day.

Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

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Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine – NYTimes.com

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

I remember reading about this tragic situation when it happened.

Now it appears the parents are going to trial. Good.
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Reverse Grafitti

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

The Reverse Graffiti Project

An awesome concept; making graffiti by removing dirt.

(That, and I just wanted to try out posting a video to my blog from Youtube)

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Migrated to Wordpress

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

After running for several years with MT, I have changed to using Wordpress. The main reason was that it’s one of the precondigured apps offered by my hosting provider, and I was sick to doing MT upgrades.

Everything seems to have come over okay but I apologize in advance for any quirky behaviour.
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Why atheism is not a religion

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I was trawling through the comments to the lovely Laci’s recent Youtube posting on atheism not being a religion, and some of the counterpoints being raised where, um, dumb. Youtube’s limit of 500 character comment responses probably contributes to that a bit. Anyway, this kicked off a thought train in my head about my own rationale for atheism not being a religion.

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