Tactical VotingTactical Voting
In response to a blog conversation on Planet Debian, Wouter Verhelst writes about voting tactics in which he claims that Instant-Runoff (wikipedia) (the method used in Australia to elect members[...]
Category: Politics
Housing PricesHousing Prices
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about pre-fabricated houses from Ikea and suggests that they could solve the housing price problems. The article states that in the UK the[...]
Advogato and Hateful/Divisive PostsAdvogato and Hateful/Divisive Posts
Firstly for the benefit of people who haven’t heard of it, the Advogato FAQ and the Wikipedia Page describe what Advogato does. Pete Zaitcev posted a strange article about me[...]
Germany Leads the World in Solar PowerGermany Leads the World in Solar Power
boston.com reports that Germany now has 55% of the world’s photo-Voltaic (PV) power generation. The German solar power industry has created tens of thousands of jobs including significant exports –[...]
Porn vs RapePorn vs Rape
Chris Samuel blogs about a plan to censor porn from the Internet in Australia. According to the ZDNet article the Fundamentalist Christian party Family First wants a national porn filter[...]
OutsourcingOutsourcing
It’s interesting to see an eWeek article about outsourcing to Canada, apparently the US immigration laws are restrictive enough that US companies (such as Microsoft) are establishing offices there. It[...]
Train RoutingTrain Routing
Last year I spent several months living on one side of Melbourne and working on the other and travelling by train to work. Every day I had to catch two[...]
If You Don’t Know How to Fix It, Please Stop Breaking ItIf You Don’t Know How to Fix It, Please Stop Breaking It
In 1992 Severn Cullis-Suzuki (David Suzuki’s daughter) who was 12 years old gave a talk to the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio on behalf of . She gave a really[...]
The Australian Government is a Terrorist OrganisationThe Australian Government is a Terrorist Organisation
This article in The Age about Mohamed Haneef shows the terrorist threat that we face. The chance that I will be injured by Al Quaeda in any way is quite[...]
Exit Strategies for IraqExit Strategies for Iraq
Here’s an interesting piece in the Washington Post about what might happen when the US withdraws from Iraq. I regret not blogging before the war started. It would have been[...]