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« Previous EntriesHow do you sponsor Movember ?
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008The link takes you to @warlach’s sponsorship page, but you can use the search facility to find and sponsor anyone you want. It’s like voting really, I don’t care WHO you sponsor, so long as you sponsor SOMEONE.
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Response to “Christian Lobby Welcomes ISP Filtering Moves”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Australian Christian Lobby have issued a press release welcoming the Australian ISP Filtering Moves PDF. Here’s my response
Hi Jim,
I doubt you remember me, but we’ve met twice at Shellharbour COC and you also spoke at a course I was attending , ran by Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation. I’d [...]
Did Government Intervention cause our Financial Crisis ?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008While almost everyone attacks the “Masters of the Universe”, Steven Horwitz from St Lawence University points out that Government (or more specifically, political) interference in the free market had a lot to do with the rise of the sub prime market and subsequent collapse of Wall Street:
In the last week or two, I have heard [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kevin Rudd
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is limbering up to address the great and good at New York’s Hyatt Hotel. Also in New York, ostensibly for discussions on the financial crisis, is Australia’s leader Kevin Rudd.
But is it the same Kevin Rudd who vowed to take “legal action” against Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the International Court [...]
14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
Thursday, August 7th, 2008What I Learned Today - 14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
We’re not this young, beloved, entrepreneurial enterprise anymore… We have to do business in a different way
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Chuck Norris Acheives Australian Fame
Friday, March 28th, 2008From the Albury-Wodonga Border Mail, March 28 2008:
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Amazon to take MP3 store global ?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Amazon currently offers DRM-free MP3 tracks from all four major music labels, something no other digital music store can boast. That’s 3.3 million songs from over 270,000 artists. But if you live outside of the US, good luck actually purchasing any of that music.
However, Amazon has announced plans to take its Amazon MP3 store global [...]
Capitalism’s bad PR
Friday, January 18th, 2008Peter Saunders on capitalism’s bad PR:
Capitalism lacks romantic appeal. It does not set the pulse racing in the way that opposing ideologies like socialism, fascism, or environmentalism can. It does not stir the blood, for it identifies no dragons to slay. It offers no grand vision for the future, for in an open market system [...]
Help the hungry Japanese
Thursday, January 17th, 2008From Kiwi Blog:
The Japanese government must believe their people are very hungry, otherwise they would not be hunting whales in the Southern Oceans.
To assist our Japanese friends, we propose to send packets of instant noodles to Japan to save the whales from being eaten. To show the intent of these noodles, please attach a letter [...]
Australia - Myer loses exclusivity on eeePC
Monday, January 14th, 2008ASUS has announced that Myer has lost its exclusive position as the only retailer of the Eee PC in Australia. ASUS will now sell the bargain priced sub-notebook through Betta Electrical, David Jones, Good Guys, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Myer, Officeworks, Retravision and WOW Sight & Sound.
Hacking the Eee PC
$499 Linux subnotebook to go mainstream
It’s [...]
