Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Gotta love free wi-fi

Published
by
Simon
on 28/12/2007
in General
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Well, the year long adventure has officially begun. We’re on our first five hour stop over after an eight hour flight into Taipei. It was awesome to discover the free[1] availability of internet, now all I need is power and I’ve got these five hours totally covered.

Gate A5

So…back to the waiting.

Update: 5:07 PM 29 December 2007 GMT

Frankfurt wasn’t as free flowing as Taipei with the Wi-Fi so it’s had to wait until now. We finally made it to London a mere 36 hours after we left Brisbane. I am oh, so tired and Laura has already crashed. She thinks I’m waking her up to go get some dinner, but I’m just going to let it slide and crawl into bed too.

I’m going to do my best to make it to a reasonable bed time type time, like 7 or 8 pm. This little update has taken all of 5 minutes, so I’ve now got to find something else that will take at least 1:55. I don’t think it will take that long, but I think Jailbreaking my iPod Touch is going to be next on the “Keep Simon Awake” menu.

Gone…

  1. Well, kinda free. I’m about to have a search and see if I can find any sites that have been blocked by the local powers that be. [↩]

The end.

Published
by
Simon
on 3/12/2007
in Politics
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Although I wouldn’t have once, I now consider myself a swinging voter. I believe strongly that in today’s political climate where it seems only a highly centrist political party will ever be elected to government, it simply doesn’t make sense to have strong party allegiances. Being a swinging voter allows you to support the good deeds of a government, but reprimand them when they take things too far or forget that they should be accountable.

John Quiggin[1] posted “John Howard: a political political obituary” which sums up my feelings about the Howard Government very well[2].

In the end, it was fitting both that Howard should attain great political success, and that his career should end in humiliating defeat. His ability deserved the one, and his misdeeds the other.

Read the rest.

  1. I does have to be said, that John’s left leg is a fair bit shorter than his right, but unlike some other commentators, it doesn’t seem to hinder his ability to see and comment on the good from the right and the bad from the left. [↩]
  2. Incidentally, it also sums up my voting record fairly well. [↩]