Politics

Despite professing that I'm some kind of liberal, I tend to find myself in regular disagreement with articles posted over at the Thoughts on Freedom, the Australian Libertarian Society Blog. This week there have been a few articles posted there which I thought were worth pointing out. I've posted before on guns and how I think they're generally a Bad Thing. Temujin posted a really good roundup of the research into the relationship between guns and crime. His conclusion comes in two parts: (a) there's not really enough evidence to conclude strongly in either direction, and (b) given the lack ... more

More Coonan?

Unlike cowbell, you can have too much Coonan. Why won't they learn? New Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull ... promotes Julie Bishop and Helen Coonan to two of the highest profile jobs in politics...NSW Senator Helen Coonan was the surprise choice as foreign affairs spokeswoman... What a freakin' disaster. Hopefully Helen Coonan won't be able to do as much damage to Australia's international reputation in opposition as she did as the country's startlingly ignorant communications minister while in government.

Hype Machine

I'm not really sure I've got room in my life for another music based website, but lately last.fm radio has been leaving me uninspired. Today I discovered the The Hype Machine and after a week or so of mostly listening to the office radio station of choice1, an afternoon of The Hype Machine's latest tracks has been a welcome relief. On another music front, I'm off to Gotye live at Scala tonight! Get warmed up (or see what you're missing) by playing Gotye at The Hype Machine. And best of all, once you've signed up they'll even Scrobble your tracks! ... more

9/9 - GHD Review

Assuming this acutally gets posted today (it will, I'm sure it will) I've actually managed to string together a run of two GHD Reviews. And not only that, I've put them online on the day they're supposed to go online. Looking at my goals from the 8/8(/8) review it seems I haven't really achieved any of them (surprise, surprise). But, I do think I'm getting better - maybe. Probably better in some areas and worse in others. Showering in the evenings - I almost managed to establish showering in the evenings as a habit, but I'm constantly thwarted by frequent ... more

Finally fulfilling the promise of photos

So far this year I've managed to hit the shutter button more than 4915 times. Since not all of those clicks turned out well, I've made a selection of the photos I think are worthwhile looking at and uploaded some of them to my Flickr account. There will no doubt be more appear there over time, but this is a good start after being behind in uploading for most of the year. You can find photos from England, of course, as well as all our trips to other European destinations. You can check out the sites of Belgium in the... more