Category: General

Wage growth does not automatically equate to inflationary pressure…

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

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

The Reverse Graffiti Project
http://youtube.com/v/5lX-2sP0JFw
An awesome concept; making graffiti by removing dirt.

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

Migrated to WordPress

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

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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We apologised for the wrong thing

Today our Prime Minister made an important step in Australian history, by apologising to indigenous Australians for past injustices. However, I think the focus on the so-called Stolen Generation was wrong.

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Comments re-enabled

I had to disable comments a little while back, due to excessive blog spam (the alternative was to have my ISP kick me off their servers). I’ve now made some changes to MT to do the CAPTCHA filtering earlier – hopefully it’s a bit nicer now. We’ll see.