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Double Negatives Are Not Positive
It seems that a pattern or theme is beginning to form, with many of my online musings taking more of a “personal development” direction, and this is certainly no accident; it mirrors development and changes that are happening in the flesh. One of the things that I noticed recently is the sheer volume of negativity [...]
Procrastination
No matter where you look, irrespective of field of endeavour and regardless of the aims and objectives, you can always find a good supply of people struck down by the “disease” of procrastination. I myself am incredibly prone to this condition, and it is without doubt the number one target on my personal hit list [...]
Getting Things Into Focus
As we approach the end of yet another year, it is only natural to look back, reflect, and contemplate the year ahead. In my case, 2009 has been particularly eventful. This year I hit 40, celebrated the arrival of a wonderful baby son, and said a sad farewell to our 4-legged Greyhound "daughter" Billie. It’s [...]
Happy Solstice!
Depending on where you are in the world, today is either the Winter Solstice (shortest day) or the Summer Solstice (longest day). Now a funny thing happens at this time every year, I usually start telling anyone who will listen that the celebration of Christmas on Dec 25th is a hijacking of much older pagan [...]
I Admit It, I Like Windows 7
Having spent the last few years running Ubuntu exclusively on my laptop, I had started to believe I would never go back to Windows. Then a couple of things happened; firstly I was evaluating Windows 7 on a laptop that would handle XP but not Vista. Once I’d switched off the eye candy, had things [...]
Remember Remember, To Give In Movember
I’m a little late putting this info out this year but… I am once again growing a moustache for Movember – team name ‘Caught by the Fuzz’. After going from 70s porno, through “The Chopper”, to a bizarre creation that went the full width of my face last year, I decided to go “minimal” this [...]
“GO” %^&! Yourself
So, Google have decided the world needs another programming language huh? They might have a point, if they had produced something radically different, but they didn’t. Google’s “GO” is just another C-like language with object-oriented features, supposedly making software development really easy and helping you avoid all the nastiness. They claim all the simplicity of [...]
Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right
And so the highly predictable, depressingly familiar pattern of a “right of centre” conservative regime continues, with Barnett’s mob now intent on privatisation of public services as a “solution”. As reported in The West Online, Colin Barnett and the blue-rinse set have plans to privatise public sector services, in an attempt to rein in spiralling [...]
Leave Our Net Alone!
Vivendi can go stick this up their arse as far as I am concerned… http://expressurl.net/ws/338 Like it or lump it, the Internet is a playground where people are still relatively free. Piracy of content has always gone on – tape recorders were never banned, so why should file sharing? I can tell you right now [...]
OK, Admit It, Who Voted For The Idiot?
In an environment where Western Australia’s prisons are overcrowded, the police are overstretched, and with no sign of any easing of the pressure, what would be the most obvious thing to do? Apparently, according to our “esteemed” State Premier Colin Barnett, what you should do in this situation is insist on 3% “efficiency savings” across [...]
