Month: January 2007
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Stupid, stupid policy
From [ABC News](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1823033.htm) is this brain dead bit of policy: >Australian Young Labor is calling on the ALP to adopt a policy of not taxing people under 18. >Young Labor president Sam Crosby says it is unfair that those aged under 18 have to pay tax even though they cannot vote. OK, let’s ignore the…
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8/1/07
Weight: 110.4kg
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Year of the Election
2007 will be, almost certainly, the year we see the next Federal Election. According to [the timetable published by the AEC](http://aec.gov.au/_content/When/elections/faq_elections.htm) the election has to occur between 4 August 2007 and 19 January 2008. A double dissolution can occur any time, but those are the only dates that avoid a half-senate election too, something we…
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Cricket Commentary and the taste of despair
Despite half going for the UK in this round of the Ashes (the other half knowing that they’re completely hopeless), I still have to laugh at some of the stuff from the [BBC Online Commentary](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/6229617.stm): >1439: WICKET – Cook ct Gilchrist b Lee 4, Eng 4-1 Oh no >11627: WICKET – Bell ct Gilchrist b…
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New tools for the blog
Following the 500 words lost incident earlier today I’ve upgraded the tools that I use for posting to this weblog a little. I now use [TextMate](http://macromates.com/), a fabulous text editor that I use for all my coding. I found out it had a blogging interface, and away I went… To make that work a little…
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A few thoughts about 1976
1976 isn’t just the year of my birth (epoch making an event that may be). It was also the year of a fairly interesting economic policy showdown in Australia. This has been prompted by the release of the [1976 Cabinet Papers](http://naa.gov.au/the_collection/cabinet/1976_cabinet/1976_cabinet.html “Released under the 30 year rule”) as well as some recent [commentary by John…
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3/1/07
Weight: 110.3kg
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And I should probably add…
That of those 16 movies I fully expect that Helen will want to see about 6…
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Movies I’m looking forward to (2007 edition)
A few of the films that I want to see coming out this year (in release date order): For Your Consideration. From the makers of Looking for Guffman and Best in Show (and A Mighty Wind, which I haven’t seen yet). Should be fun, but uneven like the rest. The Fountain. Darren Aronofsky’s latest film,…
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Missing autosave
I just typed about 500 words (which was only about halfway into the post) and then a ‘user malfunction’ caused it all to disappear. I wish this program had autosave! 🙁 (I’ll try and get back to my fascinating post about mid-1970s exchange rate policy soon, but I don’t think I can stand doing it…