Links June 2011Links June 2011
TED has published a list of resources for suicide prevention and to help survivors and their families [1]. Psychology Today has an interesting article by Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D about[...]
Month: June 2011
Pool PartiesPool Parties
Periodically Free Software people from other countries visit Melbourne on business trips. Usually when someone is sent any distance on a business trip (IE to Australia from anywhere other than[...]
Parsing Daemontools/Multilog dates in Shell ScriptParsing Daemontools/Multilog dates in Shell Script
I run some servers that use the DJB Daemontools to manage their daemons [1]. This is something I would have changed years ago if given a chance because DJB software[...]
Evil PsychologistsEvil Psychologists
Last year the Psychologist and Baptist minister George Rekers who is famous for anti-homosexuality pseudo-science was discovered to be hiring gay escorts from Rentboy.com. Lots of LULZ there. But the[...]
Rallying for a Carbon Tax 5th JuneRallying for a Carbon Tax 5th June
It’s not that common to have a rally in favor of creating a new tax, but today I attended the Melbourne rally in favor of a “carbon tax” [1], it[...]
Leaving ThreeLeaving Three
In February I started the process of moving my phone and my wife’s phone to Virgin from Three [1]. The reason is that Three didn’t offer any good phones on[...]
Ziggy’s Lecture about Nuclear PowerZiggy’s Lecture about Nuclear Power
The Event I just attended a lecture by Dr Ziggy Switkowski (see the above picture) on the topic of nuclear power, for a long time Ziggy has been the most[...]