politics
First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.
Monday, June 9th, 2008From the ABC: “Rudd lays wreath for Hiroshima victims”
Mr Rudd is the first Australian prime minister to visit Hiroshima's Peace Park and Memorial.
How embarrassing for Australia. Why has no other Prime Minister visited Hiroshima? Incredulous.
On the other hand, I wonder if a Japanese Prime Minister will visit the Thailand-Burma Railway and apologize.
One day, maybe.
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Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Join Government, business leaders and political bloggers for Australia's inaugural Politics & Technology Forum, brought to you by Microsoft Australia.
Quick details: Date: 25th June 2008, Time: morning, Location: Hyatt, Canberra
For the first Forum, Microsoft is hosting keynote speaker Matt Bai, author and political writer for New York Times magazine. Matt will address the rise of [...]
Australia is going to be stupider in 2008
Monday, December 31st, 2007Mandatory censorship is bad. Strange day for an announcement: a day when the powers-that-be deliver our deserved bread and circuses.
Who decides what is good or bad? We each have our own definitions of good and bad. I saw the Coen brothers film a few days ago, No Country for Old Men: it was absolute shite. [...]
Australian Politics on G’day World 299.
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Debating with Cameron Reilly is like fighting an intellectual tornado. Thankfully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot.
In the instance of this podcast, I am speaking for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast)
In retrospect, the discussion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of Geeks for [...]
Fibre to the Dunny
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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With Australian Politicians using "Fibre to the Node" and "Fibre to the Home" as election ploys, I think It's Time to raise the issue to a new level:
Fibre to the Dunny.
We should not rest until every Dunny in Australia has Fibre. Face it, that's where the best browsing occurs.
Also, with Australia's rising colorectal cancer, [...]
Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.
Thursday, May 24th, 2007At the Hill and Knowlton "Surviving and thriving in the next decade - Technology Publishing" Breakfast Bytes this morning, a group of eminent panelists in picture above, from the left:
James Tuckerman – Publishing Editor, AntHill. New relatively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online projects later in 2007.
Heather [...]
Billy Thorpe: Australia’s Loudest Man goes Quiet
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007There will be many Australian sharpie Baby Boomers very quiet today. The hero of loud, Australian Rock and Roll, Billy Thorpe, died at 60 of a heart attack over night.
I wonder if in this election year, the pollies will pull a State Funeral. I hope so, as the impact his music had on that generation [...]
VP Dick in town for Mardi Gras?
Friday, February 23rd, 2007US VP Dick Cheney is in Sydney town for talks with Australian politicians (here is why). I doubt he will meet with the real Australian hoi-polloi. Mardi Gras ends next weekend, so I am expecting Dick to stick around.
This week has been total traffic chaos after the shenanigans of the two Queens arriving in Sydney. [...]
Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future
Thursday, September 21st, 2006In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]
Machiavelli
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005Reading a highly informative biography of Niccolo Machiavelli, the Renaissance thinker and writer on Power and Politics. Written by Michael White, from Perth, "Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood" details the life-and-times of a man today renoun for the perjorative term Machiavellian. Whilst his most famous piece, The Prince, details the methods a prince (or leader) must [...]
