Encore Annecy !
A beautiful shot.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
You read it here first!
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
This is one of my major concerns over the election process. How can you trust a process which involves unsecure voting machines which don't leave a paper trail.
here in Australia, it's all done with paper and pencil. After being ticked off the electoral role (you can vote in any voting station in your electorate) you take your ballot papers (usually one for the lower house and one for the Senate) to a cardboard booth, mark your selections in pencil and place them in sealed boxes on your way out. The votes are then manually counted at a local counting centre and the results are usually all known that night.
I know that the USA has ten times the population, but it could use ten times the vote counters, couldn't it?
Monday, 18 February 2008
A Sub-Prime Primer
If you a bit confused about the technicalities of the Sub-Prime crisis, look here for a primer on how it all occurred.
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The free market at its best.
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The free market at its best.
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Friday, 21 December 2007
Upgrading from Vista to XP
A brilliantly written piece on the advantages of 'upgrading from Vista to XP. The last paragraph sums it up!
Microsoft can really pat themselves on the back for a job well done, delivering an operating system which is much faster and far more reliable than its predecessor. Anyone who thinks there are problems in the Microsoft Windows team need only point to this fantastic release and scoff loudly.H/T GMSVWell done Microsoft!
Friday, 14 December 2007
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Christmas has really sneaked up on me this year. I still haven't got used to the Australian weather this time of year, not so much Christmas itself, but the lead up to it.
In the UK, the kids would go back to school in early September and up would go the Christmas decorations in the stores. After Bonfire Night (Nov 5th) the in-store Christmas carols would kick in and drive everybody mad. Of course, the weather helps this by precluding a lot of outdoor activity and encouraging people to hurry into stores and malls.
Here, it's 32 degrees today (centigrade). It's more tempting to go down to the beach than the shopping mall. Christmas Day itself I'm getting used to. We alternate between a barbecue outside and a traditional (English) roast turkey dinner. This year we're out by the BBQ and the weather usually cooperates. This is Melbourne, however, and anything can happen. The first year we were here it was 37 degrees at lunchtime but a cool change came through in the afternoon and the temperature dropped 20 degrees! Boxing Day, it never got over 14 degrees and we had to put the heating back on.
Still, I wouldn't change it. I don't think I could stand the constant heat of further North.
In the UK, the kids would go back to school in early September and up would go the Christmas decorations in the stores. After Bonfire Night (Nov 5th) the in-store Christmas carols would kick in and drive everybody mad. Of course, the weather helps this by precluding a lot of outdoor activity and encouraging people to hurry into stores and malls.
Here, it's 32 degrees today (centigrade). It's more tempting to go down to the beach than the shopping mall. Christmas Day itself I'm getting used to. We alternate between a barbecue outside and a traditional (English) roast turkey dinner. This year we're out by the BBQ and the weather usually cooperates. This is Melbourne, however, and anything can happen. The first year we were here it was 37 degrees at lunchtime but a cool change came through in the afternoon and the temperature dropped 20 degrees! Boxing Day, it never got over 14 degrees and we had to put the heating back on.
Still, I wouldn't change it. I don't think I could stand the constant heat of further North.
Saturday, 3 November 2007
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