Buggered if I know…

Just in case you haven’t understood (and, presuming, you give a hoot) the sub-prime mortgage (meat?) market here’s a piece which might explain it by John Fortune & John Bird… All clear now?

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The question has been asked before many times, but it came spludging into the puddle of goo that passes for my brain whilst I was waiting to be seen by a specialist at a hospital nearby (oh, OK, I’ll level with you, it was Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge, UK). On arrival, I’d been handed a sheaf of [...]

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Blog Action Day aims to get everybody blogging about the environment today, 15 Oct. So, something which caught my eye on TV the other day was that, apparently large areas of Borneo and Sumatra native forest is being clear-felled and burnt. Why? To plant palm crops for profit – to supply the increasing demand for [...]

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I’m glad an Australian started this – Free Hugs Campaign. I do hope the Internet and related technologies help transform the way we exist as societies. Like Peace One Day… Or, am I just being naive? Buggered if I know…

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Having recently read this open letter to the Amiga community I wonder why they are even pursuing technology under a brand name that was last successfully used over 15 years ago (around 1992, the Amiga 1200, OS 3.x). Do they really think that, in an IT world which is now people and network centric (aka [...]

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Why is it that some of us get so personally upset about things that really are beyond our control? From the purely local irritation, like a bureaucratic stupidity, to the apparent unwillingness of the people who really can make some difference to actually grasp the nettle of climate change — these things really get to [...]

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Boing Boing is reporting that the Canadian federal government, via their mint, is demanding that the city of Toronto pay nearly 50,000 bucks in royalties for using the word ‘one cent’ and images of the Canadian one cent piece in their campaign to lobby the federal government for a bigger piece of the GST pie. [...]

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The Herald Sun today splashed this title “Fun-loving man, 50, seeks country” on an article about Peter Costello, current federal treasurer, and PM elect – should the liberal coalition be returned to power this election. In a related article at wikinews Costello is quoted: “I would say an election is not over until all of [...]

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Apparently North Korea has agreed to disable its main nuclear reactor. I also heard on the news last night that the US is willing to make a deal with North Korea, roughly: “You disable all your nuclear weapons and we’ll remove you from the ‘states sponsoring terrorism’ list” So if you have nuclear weapons you’re [...]

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Welcome to ‘Buggered if I know…’ If you’d like to find out about the deep and meaningful reasoning behind this blog have a look at ‘About‘. ‘Bugger‘ is a very versatile word in Australian parlance and can be used in a variety of ways – it’s clear I need to contribute to the wiki article [...]

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