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It’s been a while since my last post, and it seems that so much has occurred since just on a month ago. I won’t go into details here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on the wonderful world of writing instruments – in this case a pencil crafted as a functional piece of art: the [...] It may perhaps seem obvious from some of my posts that I tend more towards a libertarian approach to politics. Yet, I will suggest, this appearance is based more on the current ‘labels’ available. So where do I stand? Rudolf Steiner, in his writings on the social order, talked of its inherent threefold nature, each having [...] Having recently returned from an overseas trip and bemoaning the lack of a good camera (though we did have a small and quite reasonable ‘travelling’ one at hand: a compact panasonic Lumix), I could not help but check to see whether the Leica M9, which is definitely out of my price range, was finally available… [...] About three weeks ago, I decided to upgrade our server from OS-X 10.5 to 10.6. The Apple installation disks were 10.6.3, though the latest update was by then 10.6.4. Let me quickly first outline the nature of the network, as it’s very likely that the types of issues I encountered would not manifest in a different [...] or why consulting an astrologer may be useful prior to calling an election I had known since prior to the election that the date coincided with Mercury beginning a retrograde motion, and had thought at the time this was not a good time for any election. The results, however, simply did not only reflect a retrograde [...] Given the 2010 Federal election results (still pending), I’ve received (from both local and o/s) queries about how our Australian system of government works, so I thought I’d try and give a very brief overview, with inevitable small ‘errors of exception’. Firstly, we are a Federated Commonwealth of States. In some ways, this is somewhat akin [...] The four elected independents are being wooed by the two major parties for their support in forming government… so how should they decide whom to support? Each is of course free to decide how best to choose. After all, that is the nature of an independent candidate. One of the factors (and possibly a factor above all [...] I’ve read quite a number of articles of late on the proposed developments in New York. Frankly, the best I’ve read so far is the following from Caroline Glick published in the Jerusalem Post. [There's also an online petition against the proposed building] Date: Sunday, morning after 2010 Federal elections. Like many other Australians, I stayed up last night watching the election counting result on the ABC. Like numerous other Australians, I was relieved to see the loss of so many seats previously held by the Labor Party. I write ‘relieved’ for the very reasons I outlined in a [...] I was recently looking through older materials in various places, and discovered afresh a blog entry (on LiveJournal) I made a few days before Ratzinger was elected, to the unbelief of many, as Pope. I too had assumed someone else would be elected, but it struck me that one of the things I actually got [...] |
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