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Entries from November 2007

Gross National Happiness

November 24th, 2007 · No Comments

As I sit here quietly I cant help but be infected by the happiness I feel from, and for, Australians as a landslide victory is inevitable for the Australian Labor Party. This is not anything to do with my own political colour – I have written elsewhere publicly that I have no in-built bias either [...]

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Tags: Australia · SocioPolitical

Beauracracy gone mad II?

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Jeesh! I haven’t been employed, or resident, in the UK since Nov 2006. I advised Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service (HMRC) of this during 2007 – in fact I received a tax refund sometime mid-year (because I hadn’t work the whole year in the UK hence was over taxed). Today I received a letter [...]

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Tags: Britian · Bureaucracy

There is no G-Phone

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

All the hype was actually a bit of a misnomer – what actually exists, and has just been released as a Software Development Kit (SDK, via Google OS), is an open source development platform for Mobile Phones created by Google called Android. We may finally be able to do something useful with mobile phones… Is [...]

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Tags: Australia · Britian · SocioPolitical · Technology · Video