Thursday, August 18, 2005

Reading Viewing Listening - Lists

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Having been treated to a week in Melbourne on a project, caught the Dutch Masters exhibition at NGV . Highlights: Not the Vermeer (sorry!) -...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Gaia's revenge on Renewable Energy Policy

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Not too long after our own little local 1-turbine Windy Power For the Masses experiment up on Gebbie's Pass was destroyed by a ' sud...
Monday, June 06, 2005

A healthy (EU) Constitution

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Telegraph | Opinion | A healthy Constitution is a succinct, pointed and thoroughly deserved riposte to the bloated, anti-democratic Pan-Eur...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sigh - another blogger says it better (if with a Canuck accent...)

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This post from the ever-readable Gods of the Copybook Headings blog, demonstrates yet again the universality of human nature, and the ultim...
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Belly laugh of the day

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Dr Suarez has read of DAS SNOW BOOT : What will those nastily clever narco-traffickers be able to purchase next? Sure saves laundering mone...

The future of dead-tree publishing

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Power Line, in a piece entitled: Robert Burns, call your office , has quoted what I think is the best-put, most succinct (always a desirable...
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...