Friday, March 11, 2005

Who'd a thunk it? Osama as apostate

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On reading this , two phrases meandered across the frontal lobes (or was that the amigdila - the older, reptilian bit?). Hoist by his own Pe...
Friday, March 04, 2005

Innovation as the driver

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This Arnold Kling article says in much better words what I have been thinking out loud about in a more stumbling way and with less articul...
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Alive in 2005

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Some juicy new sites, especially for NZ readers who are currently being regaled with tales about the Wananga, and down the maw of which we c...
Friday, October 15, 2004

Back to life, with Te Reo thoughts and a Billion 7500G wireless setup too!

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It's been some time (OK, six months) since the last post, and pressure of work is as good an excuse as any to plead. On the equipment...
Friday, April 30, 2004

Tribes Tripes Tropes

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Richard Brookhiser has some pithy words about the difficult project of modernity. It would be nice to think that local advocates of 'd...
Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Prepare for the worst?

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Both Ralph Peters and David Warren - two old hands in the Middle Eastern game - seem rather pessimistic to say the least. Their basic int...

Amusing Arabian Ablogger (had to make the alliteration work somehow)

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Here's a guy will make you reconsider every stereotype you may have had. (And if you don't have stereotypes, how do you survive lif...
Monday, April 26, 2004

Oil for Fraud is big news now

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The irrepressible Mark Steyn , whose articles are always amusingly written and capital-F Forthright, has a good piece in the Telegraph on th...
Friday, April 16, 2004

As irrelevant as New Zealand

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This assessment from Michael Totten takes our little country as an example of the altered state of relationships between America and Europe...
Thursday, April 15, 2004

Oil for Fraud - UN to be implicated in massive scam

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Looks like this is set to blow on April 22. The usual suspects - France (specifically, Chirac), UN officials, inspectors up and down the c...
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Iraq's first birthday

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This little, heartfelt piece, from a so obviously different point of view, is a great antidote to the barrage of lazily misinformed news fr...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Jobs in Hip-Hop

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Apart from the obvious reaction to this little joyride (which of course is: "hey, that was our tax money you hosed up the wall - but ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

So, where's the next kilowatt gonna come from?

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Project Aqua - a large scale hydro generation proposal - has had - lovely irony this - it's plug pulled. Now, against a backdrop of inc...
Monday, March 29, 2004

Guns baaad. Explosive belts Gooood.

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NZ Pundit reports on the, shall we say over-egged, response to kid-size guns. Note the rapidity and ferocity of the condemnation. The key...
Saturday, March 27, 2004

Lord Carey, retired, religious, and controversial

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Lord Carey of Clifton has put in a religious-dialogue context, many of the issues surrounding our fragile co-existence with militant Islam....
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Nostalgia for Lost Jobs

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As usual, Virginia Postrel has a great link: Would you really rather be a miner? The argument, heard often in tandem with a vaguely anti-c...
Monday, March 22, 2004

Al Quaeda to Europe: "Grease up. Bend over."

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Hard to know where the Spanish capitulation will take Europe. Nowhere nice, that's for sure. Spanish, and by osmosis, European foreign...
Saturday, March 20, 2004

The first concrete step towards Eurabia

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Robert Spencer, writing in WorldNetDaily , notes without glee that "al-Qaida has adjusted Spain's foreign policy with a bombing...
Friday, March 19, 2004

Comments about Spain

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Mark Steyn usually has thoroughly amusing yet pointed observations. This one is no exception. Lee Harris is another one of those wise g...
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Wisdom

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Tricky concept. I seem to need large doses of this in times of uncertainty, and there are a few people I keep returning to for their latest...