October 2010
4 posts
The English drinking tea
“The English — a gentle people with a deep sense of justice and fairness, difficult to rouse and slow to criticise but, when the time comes, a people stubbornly determined to do what is right.” - George Orwell The English drinking tea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj2K0ulD8Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSwrPT-ewE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqQc7hjhoU
Oct 19th
Oct 13th
The Internet is just a tool
“I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss...
Oct 12th
Swiss Democracy
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” - Orson Welles
Oct 3rd
September 2010
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Sep 21st
August 2010
2 posts
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A Simple Truth
“Anyone who slaps a ‘This page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.” - Tim Berners-Lee
Aug 30th
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Aug 11th
July 2010
13 posts
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
Follow my leader
Australia is proud of its many unique attributes and achievements. The landscape, the people, the sporting legends and so on. A few years ago we achieved something special. Former Senator and Minister for Communications Richard Alston was given the accolade of the World’s Greatest Luddite for his complete lack of understanding of the internet. Alston is: …behind a number of ...
Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
FNQ Piccies
Fill yer boots :) That’s a quick photo tour of FNQ and I could have added another 8000+ images. Feel free to use them as you wish.
Jul 19th
Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
Jul 16th
Political Compasses
Here’s my political compass results via news.com.au Here’s my political compass results via Political Compass Here’s Australia’s current political compass results via Political Compass And finally, here’s Labor’s political compass via their spin doctors.
Jul 13th