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Decrying Climate Change

Posted in on Climate Change, on the interblahs on February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

As I flicked my eyes over this morning’s paper, I cam across this tidbit from Australia’s answer to Glenn Beck, Miranda Devine: Climate Alarmists out in the Cold.
As the wheels keep falling off the climate alarmist bandwagon, it’s suddenly become fashionable to be a sceptic. Out of the woodwork have crawled all sorts of fair-weather [...]

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Blogs vs Microblogging vs RSS

Posted in on my blog, on the interblahs on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, I was looking at some of the things on my blog, particularly what I have for “reader interaction”, and it occurred to me that most of the people who visit my blog do so because of the David Sciola and Jake Gyllenhaal pictures, and not for my sultry tones and erudite discussions.
Then I thought [...]

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Posted in on the interblahs on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I found this on a forum I read and thought I’d share it with you
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave “hello, world” into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack [...]

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Solidarity – One Cause, United?

Posted in on gay rights, on homophobia, on homosexuality, on religion, on the government, on the interblahs, on university on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Idealist – A man who thinks the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet
Benjamin Disraeli

In 1988, as a 3-year-old petulance in my parents’ lives, we were travelling through the South of Poland when we stopped in a town centre to watch the passing parade. This was no normal parade, it was my first experience [...]

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MacGyver to the rescue!

Posted in in pictures, on the interblahs on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As an engineer, you need only two tools. WD-40 if it doesn’t move and it should, gaffa tape if it moves and it shouldn’t.
Anon.

I’d like to thank Wired.com for this wonderful, wonderful link. As an engineer, I’m often called on to fix things. This is not how they usually turn out. [...]

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Annoying

Posted in on the daily grind, on the government, on the interblahs, on tutoring, on university on June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

There are many things which have annoyed me of late, and I’ve had this post as a draft, adding and removing things from it. Here are the top four:

The Final Frontier: Everything these days is being referred to as the final frontier. We all remember Star Trek, of course, with its “Space, the [...]

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Lily goes viral, and IDAHO

Posted in on homophobia, on homosexuality, on the daily grind, on the government, on the interblahs on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, a week ago, a video began arching towards viral state. It was, of course, a film of Lily Allen’s hit song, “Fuck You”, from her most recent album. And so, with this is mind, here they are:
The American version…

and the French…

It all ties in [...]

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Leaks site leaks site links banned

Posted in on the government, on the interblahs on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just came up with that title… clever, no?
The first rule of censorship is that you can not talk about censorship
Wikileaks, 2009

In Australia, there is the continued ramp-up of internet censorship. According to SMH:
Already, a significant portion of the 1370-site Australian blacklist – 506 sites – would be classified R18+ and X18+, which are [...]

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