January 2009
One Month Of 2009. →
More recent stories that make me think that we’re not worth the land air and water we’re in any case ruining around ourselves:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24914027-662,00.html…
Blame The Right Things. →
A week ago I listened to Lance Armstrong and what stuck with me wasn’t anything to do with bicycle racing, it wasn’t his philosophy, it wasn’t even really his work with Livestrong. No, it was the…
Multiverse, insert $2 for continued play →
Have you heard of the “many worlds” theory? In the broadest sense, it means that at every instant, the universe duplicates itself but with minor differences in each copy. So in some copies an atom…
Partial Survey Results: Readership And How They... →
Thanks to everyone that’s taken the SurveyMonkey survey I put up last week, there are preliminary results already, enough to spot a few trends. (Please note that the survey is still open, these…
Interested In How Much We REALLY Trust Our... →
How much trust do we really have in our current leaders? Do we think they are up to scratch? If you’d like to know the answer to this, then try going to this survey and contributing your point of…
Interested In How Much We REALLY Trust Our... →
How much trust do we really have in our current leaders? Do we think they are up to scratch? If you’d like to know the answer to this, then try going to this survey and contributing your point of…
Partial Survey Results: Readership And How They... →
Thanks to everyone that’s taken the SurveyMonkey survey I put up last week, there are preliminary results already, enough to spot a few trends. (Please note that the survey is still open, these…
Lost Your Dinner? →
It’s not right, Richard. It might be a Virgin flight but that meal was… not virgin…
I’ve got news for the penman, they’re all like that these days…
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Your Electric Bill - part 3 →
How to understand it, what to do to make it smaller.
So far we’ve covered the electricity bill in overview, and how to use less energy for air conditioning. There are still a few tips for all…
Why Have There Been So Few EVs? →
If this is electric racing, then let me in for some of that… And let me ask you - if these cars can beat the arse off top fuellers and other technology that’s been developed for the past…
Your Electric Bill - part 2 →
How to understand it, what to do to make it smaller.
Last article, I posted a typical electric bill and decoded some of the obscure bits. Then I laid out the recording phase of reducing your…
First Irony In Obama's Victory →
The most ironic part of this article? Has to be this para: “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of…
Basic Engagement Survey →
Quick - survey! Please pop over to SurveyMonkey and take the three minutes to let me know what you think!
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Basic Engagement Survey →
Quick - survey! Please pop over to SurveyMonkey and take the three minutes to let me know what you think!
Visit The Body Friendly Zen Cookbook and help support my work!
Basic Engagement Survey →
Quick - survey! Please pop over to SurveyMonkey and take the three minutes to let me know what you think!
Visit The Body Friendly Zen Cookbook and help support my work!
Ghetto Robotics →
A bit of fun was to be had the last two days. I don’t know about you, but the “bring out your dead” verge collection days bring out the collecting instinct in me. Totally unnecessary find of the…
Your Electric Bill - part 1 →
How to understand it, what to do to make it smaller.
So (in this time of increasing energy costs) you’ve just received your electricity bill, and done a double take at the final number…
Honest St Vinnie's? Nuh-uh... →
The society president of the St Vincent de Paul Society demonstrates on national TV how to lie:
”… we have a policy of treating everyone equally - especially in Queensland.” (Sorry I have to…
Do Your Pets Have Weird Names? →
Meh, weird names for pets - been there, done that. Almost all my pets have had - unique, let’s say - names. Currently my two pets and two unwanted houseguests have a whole slew of names to them….
Teddy Dundee And The Claws Of Death At Gonad... →
Dilemma: There’s a 3kg - 5kg wild animal with excellent night vision, razor sharp claws, and teeth that can grind wood to pulp. It’s 30cm away from you. You’re in your boxer shorts with an…
Throwing Out The Baby →
I do so admire the clean tech sites like Gizmodo’s Treehugger site. Set up to promote awareness of clean and sustainable technologies, the site is the hippie’s answer to existence. Or is it? In …
Holographic 404 Error →
Funny as hell - loading this page resulted in an error message “Not found - error to origin.” The Universe striking back!
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Just My Luck To Find New Phishing Scam First. →
Watch out for new phishing attacks , that pop a dialog box when you visit affected websites. And bow before my sheer luck ability to get hit by one of these things a week before the mainstream…
Spinning A Carbon Web →
Some schemes calling themselves “green” are a bit umm… dubious perhaps. There’s a site where you go and get to watch videos; and that is supposed to generate “carbon points” and donations to…
How To Gain Street Cred ... →
… if you’re a President-elect … This has to be good publicity for Barak O. He’s gained street cred for frequenting a well-know eatery, peace cred for the way it was quietly organised, and…
Antisocial Networking →
Revelation: It’s called “Social” networking for a reason, website builders! Many people who build website SN (Social Networking) apps seem to have a very restricted view of the world. Their sites…
Browner Shades Of Green →
Examples of when “greenwashing” just isn’t enough: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/ces-2009-green-is-here-but-its-made-to-stand-in-the-corner.php …
Antisocial Networking →
Revelation: It’s called “Social” networking for a reason, website builders! Many people who build website SN (Social Networking) apps seem to have a very restricted view of the world. Their sites…
How To Gain Street Cred ... →
… if you’re a President-elect … This has to be good publicity for Barak O. He’s gained street cred for frequenting a well-know eatery, peace cred for the way it was quietly organised, and…
Does One EV Look A Lot Like Any Other? →
Maybe that’s because it is. Mitsubishi is licensing their “i MiEV” to European car manufacturers. If you check out the main players in the EV field, you’ll see that many either have a similar…
The Year So Far, Not Impressed. →
In the news of 2009, lots of brickbats already. First up, it’s been revealed that (gasp! Who’d a thunk it?) ISPs and telcos lie a lot about their network performance. Tell me about it -…
Does One EV Look A Lot Like Any Other? →
Maybe that’s because it is. Mitsubishi is licensing their “i MiEV” to European car manufacturers. If you check out the main players in the EV field, you’ll see that many either have a similar…
Has Wired.com been hacked? →
Has Wired.com been hacked? On this one page, http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/cheap-netbooks.html it looks like something isn’t right - why ask for my Twitter login details? Dialog box…
Making Your Burgers Cheaper (To Make.) →
It’s always good to see how a garage inventor can come up with the goods, in the face of all the big corporations - just by recognising a need. Big corporations don’t see the need to help other…
Below Average Journalism →
An example of not thinking before you open your trap: ”None of the major MP3 player brands — not even Apple — got better than average overall reliability and service marks in our survey.“…
Dealing With Press Releases Fail. →
Some people take themselves wayyy too seriously. Like this guy. Hang on Eric. What makes you think those PR firms actually give any more of a toss about whether you want their PR or not? As you…
Electric Cars - Why Don't We Have Them Yet? →
Mahindra, who made one of the first affordable small 4WDs I’d ever seen back in the 80’s, are now planning to release a 4 seater electric vehicle by (here comes that effing arbitrary date fished…
Bring On The Uber-Cute hedgehogs! →
Treehugger, I can’t believe you said that…
It’s NEVER okay to bring in an outside species for any reason whatsoever. In Australia alone, our two biggest “integration” stories are cane toads…
Bring On The Uber-Cute hedgehogs! →
Treehugger, I can’t believe you said that…
It’s NEVER okay to bring in an outside species for any reason whatsoever. In Australia alone, our two biggest “integration” stories are cane toads…
Take A Moment To Follow The Link. →
Someone said to me, and we took great delight in arguing about it, that photorealism is the finest form of art. I don’t think so. She said that all the other forms of art aren’t as good, because…
Get Your Vitamin D Dose With - Mushrooms? →
We (should!) all know that Vitamin D deficiency causes all sorts of complaints including brittle bones and rickets. And we should all know that ten minutes of exposure to the sun every day or two,…
December 2008
The Cookbook Scores Another Hit. →
Here’s some more positive evidence supporting The Body Friendly Zen Cookbook. It’s one of the components of the diet and I can’t stress enough the importance of using grapeseed oil and extra…