Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
As self-expression migrates to, or maybe more accurately continues on, the Internet, it will be interesting to watch as new phenomena arise. I blog and I still think it’s pretty weird – all these people, including myself, writing ‘into the ether’, audiences ranging from no-one to the 1000′s, topics covered from the absolute trivial to [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Thought for the thinking.. “An Atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Bayal, or the Golden Calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the Gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one God further…” [...]
Posted in SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Aug 7th, 2007 No Comments »
It has oft been observed, sometimes as criticism, that I spent a fair amount of time absorbing history, and more specifically, modern war history. I would propose, in my defence (should I ever need one), that in order to have an opinion about any current or historical events one should actually know something about them, [...]
Posted in Building Websites, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
It seems my previous post was quite timely. Yesterday the Federal Government released its policy on broadband. Of course, one can debate whether this was ‘forced’ by the Labor party’s pre-election broadband policy release. The whole area of telecommunications policy is pretty complicated – we are still in a, and it will take a long [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
It seems very odd to me.. in fact it seems damn right outrageous that in my Telstra bill they see fit to send me propaganda. Propaganda my bills are paying for. What am I on about? Telstra is a business like any other right? Entitled to advertise right? Well yes and no… Telstra, like BT, [...]