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Analysis of climategate emails

Monday, January 18th, 2010

I have always been sceptical about the more extreme claims of the Global Warming True Believers. However, despite news media and left wing politicians using the climate change issue to bludgeon the economy, I really had believed the underlying science.
However, many people saw the climategate emails as proof that the science had been manipulated. [...]

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Celebrating 30 years of mainframe support

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

You may know that CSC hit the big 50 this year. A local 30 year milestone has been reached as well.
In 1978 the Port Kembla steelworks (then called Australian Iron and Steel or AIS, now owned by Bluescope Steel and supported by CSC Asustralia) received a water cooled IBM 3032 mainframe with [...]

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Syringes falling from the sky?!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Got sent a link that went (via Not The Dark Matter – The Gray Matter) to this story about used syringes from the Sydney news, from earlier in the year:
“January 11, 2009 Eamonn Duff
USERS of the Cross City Tunnel have been warned of the risk of needles being dropped by drug addicts who frequent a [...]

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What DO Economists Agree on ?

Friday, February 20th, 2009

In chapter two of his first year economics textbook, economist Greg Mankiw includes a table of propositions to which most economists subscribe, based on various polls of the profession. Below is the list, together with the percentage of economists who agree:

A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available. (93%)
Tariffs and import [...]

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Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

From The Guardian’s Greenwash series:
Is clean coal possible in future? Well, if you mean could we capture carbon dioxide emissions and bury them somewhere out of harm’s way – in old coal seams or oilfields or salt mines – yes, it is possible. The former British chief scientist Sir David King called it “the only [...]

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Australian charged after reposting YouTube video

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Any doubts I ever had about letting Government Officials decide what I can view over the internet have been completely erased. Apparently, reposting a video that shows a man swinging a baby by the arms (BTW, the baby is shown laughing and smiling at the end of the clip), that was broadcast on US [...]

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How do you sponsor Movember ?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The 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, 2008

The 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 [...]

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Did Government Intervention cause our Financial Crisis ?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

While 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 [...]

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kevin Rudd

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Iranian 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 [...]

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