Friday, September 30, 2005

Happiness through exercise of Intellect

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Found this (circuitously) from Leighton Smith's well-organised web site (asp's, no less). The money quote (got to stop using that...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Fisking Nipper(t)

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Matt Nippert is a young Lefty (what else?) journalist at the Listener and has an article in this weeks' issue. Fisking this is the old...

Germany, Canada and lil' ol' NZ.....

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David Warren has another swipe at the management of long-term decline: the money quote: "The SPD is to Germany as the Liberals to Can...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

About that German election

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As usual, Mark Steyn draws an apt analogy. Now consider our own fair situation once we hook up all those viable wombs hard-working famil...

Listening to

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As little TV and radio as possible. The shallowness of what passes for dear little NZ's public political commentary is just too much. ...
Monday, September 12, 2005

Metal in Melbourne

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Back in the glorious city (and a great boutique hotel) for a whole week, in the implementation phase of a leetle project. Let no-one kid you...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Tribes (ht: Instapundit)

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Just RTWT .
Monday, September 05, 2005

That ol' welfare state shtick...

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This post linked by Bill Quick hisself, encapsulates all that is wrong with the welfare state. There have always been two broad ways to ge...

Polls, Katrina and Gaia

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Great to hear the Colmar Brunton polls (insert usual caveats here) having National leading. On the Aged parents run last night, interesting ...
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...