The Journal
All writing
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Solar Power is a Waste of Energy and Resources
Seriously. I wrote earlier this year about the Kangaroo Island Council’s decision to partner with the Federal Government in a scheme to subsidise the installation of solar panels on houses on the island. About 200 households applied…
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The Big 0 Wins the Nobel Peace Prize – WTF?
President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, I’ll be stuffed, as Phar Lap said. Obama was nominated after twelve days as president. He must have done something pretty darned impressive in those twelve…
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JBC Stock / Shares Trading Software
The first section of the story on the JBC share trading / stock trading software package scam has moved to here. Part two of the JBC story. Part three of the JBC shares trading software scam story. Or…
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Andrew Bolt is Back, and the World is Cooler
Andrew Bolt leads off after his return from holidays with a tightly written summary of the world-is-hotter-than-ever-the-hockey-stick-proves-it fraud. There is no doubt now that it really was fraud and not simply incompetence. The incompetence was discovered by statisticians…
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Maryam and Marzieh
Maryam and Marzieh are Christian women. They are from Islamic families. They live in Iran. So of course, they are in jail. They are denied medical care or contact with the outside world. One of the…
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Governments Cannot Create Jobs
Only business can. While the government may seem to create jobs when it hires people or buys things, it destroys at least as many jobs as it creates when it does so. Via Hyscience, which links…
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Two Bits of Musicial Genuis Disguised as Comedy
Dudley Moore: Victor Borge:
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Art Without Bludging Off the Taxpayer
I know, I’ve said it a thousand times before, almost all subsidies are a waste of time, and end up costing more than any benefit they provide. There are three reasons: First, if you are getting…
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First Australian Woman to Win A Nobel Prize
Well, this is cool. Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Tassie, and studied in Melbourne before completing her doctorate at Cambridge. She is now the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California. Her…
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Free Online Backup
With increasing down and upload speeds, online storage and backup is becoming a viable option. I have an automatic backup system that copies a full disk image every week to an external drive. But I would…
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Someone’s Uncle Once Lived in Rio – He, He!
From the always insightful Kate at Small Dead Animals: In a failed attempt to sway the the IOC’s selection committee into awarding Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics, which went instead to Rio de Janeiro, the ever-grinning…
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Ridiculously Hot Sauce
Read this column by Jeremy Clarkson for the fun of it. It’s just a silly story about not realising how hot a bottle of hot sauce was going to be. But in passing, it makes a point I…
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An Australian Film Worth Seeing
I know, it sounds like an oxymoron. But it might just be true. I haven’t seen Paul Hogan’s new film Charlie and Boots yet. Philppa Martyr has, and has written an intelligent and amusing review, full…
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Hold Firm to the Sure Word
That is a quote from Titus 1:9 – the name of the blog of the Reverend Canon Dr Kendall Harmon. Dr Harmon is a traditionalist Anglican (ie, he is one of the few who persists in believing…
