Yesterday was Earth Hour. I didn’t blog on it at the time because I don’t have an hour to spend on foolishness. However I think I would like to express my displeasure of it. The conservatives of course are aligned against the green movement and push instead to leave lights on to both protest that [...]
Archive > March 2010
The Evil Within
The cases of paedophile and other abuse within the churches, particularly the Catholic church never stop. The church has tried secrecy and bribery but the silence is no longer and many are opening up to what honestly happened and now it reaches from the ground floor right up to the Pope. The good news is [...]
South Australian State Election
Tomorrow is the South Australian (SA) State Election held every 4 years or so. We’ve had the incumbent Labour (read leftish pro-union for US people) Premier Rann for while now, he certainly slipped in by the skin of his nose in 2002. 2006 saw a very solid improvement in his position as Premier but things [...]
Obama and US Healthcare Reform
The US healthcare system is confusing to me. The quality of service can be very high due to advanced technology but it’s also very expensive. The wealthy can afford exceptional quality care. The poor get nothing. However I’m told they can get emergency care and thus probably clog up emergency with non critical cases. Most [...]
Tea Madame? One Lump or Two?
My impressions on this post and the one above come across the waves. That being from Australia. In some ways I’ll be more astute as a hands off observer. In other ways I lack inside information and will be off base. So is this Tea Party Movement a ‘Grassroots’ one? Does it really matter what [...]
US Veteran Information
John of Argghhh! has again published a lot of useful information for US veterans. Check it out if that applies to you
Buzz Sucks because Few Use it.
Google Buzz, like it’s failure before it Orkut (except in selected nations) and Myspace and indeed many other worthwhile social apps, all SUCK. It has nothing to do with their technical wonders or lack of them. It has everything to do with the fact that hardly anyone uses them. Facebook and Twitter are dominant. I [...]