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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Blissfully in-between
For those of you who notice these things – it’s been quiet here for the past week or so. Back on Friday the 13th (ominous I know) I finished up at work, and so for the past week and a bit have been taking it easy and not doing any more than I need to. [...]
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Berlin Wall – then and now
Say what you want about print media, the New York Times come out with some freaking cool stuff on their website. Their current feature on the Berlin wall has some fantastically interactive pictures of Berlin from 1989 and today. Stop reading this and check that out, because it’s freaking cool. The fall of the wall [...]
Ken Henry: An ETS Should Hurt.
So far, the main thing occupying the minds of our business people and politicians is how we can introduce an emissions trading scheme without hurting anyone. Henry offers the tart observation that the introduction of such schemes ”is intended to cause a significant shift in the structure of the Australian and global economies over coming [...]
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The rules of arbitrarily picking a team
As much as I love my footy (AFL) and cricket, I’m probably almost more of a generic sports nut. Put a sport on TV and within 5 minutes I’ve probably decided who I want to win and why, especially team sports. And with the world series on, the NFL and NBA seasons both underway (and [...]