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Policies are not just policies
Of late given the Australian elections, I’ve engaged in something that I otherwise on the whole consider a waste of time: tweets. Part of the problem with tweets is that one is restricted to 140 characters: whether or not this can genuinely be called ‘micro-blogging’ or not, it certainly encourages depth of neither reflection nor…
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OS X Server 10.5 → 10.6 – not as straightforward as one would hope.
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…
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Aus. election online user poll
So you’ve voted in the elections, and you’ve got an active blog or tweeter account… so who do our online votes compare to those of the general public in terms of first preference? Please vote and share! who did you vote for in first preference?online survey
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Election day chart
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…
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In a nutshell: how our system of government works.
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…
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Ausvotes 2010 – Independents’ preferences
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…
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Australian Federal Election 2010: what I would like to see
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…
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From Pope to Pope
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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Why I shall NOT be voting Labor this month
First and foremost, the last few years under the current Labor regime has seen some rather concerning signs of social control reminiscent of Stalinist-like (or Nazi-like) push towards uniformity through educational ‘reform’: instead of seeking to encourage and maximise diversity, the Labor Government has, in one scoop, both taken steps to remove State autonomy, as…
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Moving hosting service
I’m actually very happy with the service from DreamHost, and there are some features that they offer (such as mirroring and the announce-list) that I won’t have access to with the move – or if these exist, I have yet to find them! So why move? For one very simple reason: I also have an…
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