One issue that is rarely considered is how to deal with office break-ins for the purpose of espionage. I believe that this issue has been solved reasonably well for military[...]
I have just read the news about Saddam finally receiving the death penalty (it did not seem likely that his case would have any other outcome) and have been thinking[...]
sellaband.com has an interesting business model. If you want to make money from your band you can sign up to their site and create a web site with some sample[...]
Relgions commonly require contributions to charitable causes and helping other people. Developing free software without expecting a reward seems to fit that criteria. If my primary religious belief (atheism) turns[...]
Currently there is a serious problem with Xen. Fedora Core 5 with kernel 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen and Debian/unstable with kernel 2.6.18-1-xen-686 will not recognise both PC serial ports, and it appears that[...]
Today I saw the movie God On My Side by Andrew Denton. It’s an interesting movie about the televangelist industry in the US. I expected it to be about the[...]
I notice that Planet Linux Australia has been changed to not list the feeds URLs, instead it displays the HTML pages for the blogs. I believe this is a bad[...]
This PDF (700K) gives a useful summary of the Peak Oil issues. It’s on the Defence in the National Interest (DNI) web site, an interesting site of US conservative political[...]
Are blogs and conference speeches inherently about self promotion? If so is that a bad thing? Recently I mentioned my Planet configuration on a mailing list where most people don’t[...]
It’s interesting to note in this press release from the Australian Greens that Dr Ziggy Switkowski (head of the Prime Minister’s nuclear taskforce) that nuclear power is not economically viable[...]