Productivity losses

Some kind of update installed while I slept has made my Outlook at work b0rken. According to latest estimates, it will be 15 hours until my existing mail is available and 25 minutes until new mail is finished receiving.
Fix my Internets!

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Got Firefox?

Launch of Firefox 3 was 3am AEST. Insomnia at 4am seemed a happy coincidence except the load on the servers meant it took an hour to download – but all is good now.

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Some self-evident truths

There has been so much wailing and gnashing of teeth this week about all manner of societal crises. My take on reality:

Government tinkering with petrol regulation won’t change prices very much
In the long run, petrol prices will go up
Instead of making petrol cheaper, perhaps we should use less petrol
Politicians in the same party are not [...]

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I choose to end the hiatus now

Well, that was a longer break than originally planned. I was close to being burned out on a combination of work and personal life and needed to get clear of things for a while. Batteries are now somewhat recharged.
So, it’s time to get things happening again. Howard is gone, and Nelson is a doofus, so [...]

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Deed Poll

I’m going through a pseudonym reassignment process. I’ve dropped the ‘P’ from the front of my name – it was an obscure reference to Terry Pratchett (while another such reference exists on the ‘About’ page for this blog), and people keep reading my name as ‘phobias’ instead.

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Vote-a-Matic Mk II

Brought to you by News Ltd, the folks who brought you the Vote-a-Matic Mk I. You may have already looked at this dancer and been told it is about whether you are right-brained or left-brained. But take another look now. Is the dancer spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If you see her turning clockwise, you are Right-brained [...]

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Trivia

Please. The election campaign doesn’t need to be about “gaffes” like this. Tabloid TV testing the memory of politicians followed by the media jumping on any mistakes. It was silly when it was about Kevin Rudd’s knowledge of the tax scales, and it’s just as silly when JWH is a quarter of a point off [...]

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I’m back

… after several days living in a cave.
Did I miss anything?

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Father’s Day reading list

What I got yesterday:

Ozonomics by Andrew Charlton
The Crikey Guide to the 2007 Election
The No Asshole Rule by Bob Sutton
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom

Plus some undies – everything [...]

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Attention, Newcastle

To those who want the Pasha Bulker rudder, follow these steps:

Ask Morris Iemma to arrange purchase of the item from the ship’s owners.
Wait for Iemma to refuse.
Make sure John Howard knows that the NSW government has refused to fund your purchase.
Wait for the Commonwealth government to buy you a rudder.

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