New Zealand has the worst government it's had since the nineteenth century.
Mother Earth can be a real Mutha
Eclipse sucks.
The nonsense the media says
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
I worry about A.I
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
I chose Ruby over Python
Every computer language has flaws.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
I got very angry listening to a radio show recently which had pundits talking about whether or not foreign troops should enter Libya to 'help out' and what arrangements ought be made after Gaddafis ousting.
It was a bunch of fools speaking as if NATO had somehow won Libya's freedom and was owed participation and recompense.
They were sounding a lot like the reactionary fools who had previously been condemning U.S involvement as just another imperialist war against the mid-east as if there were no distinction between the U.N Security Council and Arab League sanctioned support of Libyan rebellion and the U.S conquest of Iraq.
The U.S did not ask for involvement in Libya and was dragged into it by British and French enthusiasm to answer a call for help. Such help being sanctioned legally (as much as there is international law) and requested by largely legitimate representatives of Libyan people and wider Arab populations.
And then it was delivered sensibly without imposition of unwelcome troops or authority. So far it has been what should be a text book example of lending aid to righteous rebellion against tyranny.
Those people who condemn it as Obama adding to Bush's wars are idiots who speak ideology and not reality, they neither know of how the U.S became involved nor of a distinction between doing good and bad it seems.
Having won their liberty, with NATO help in overcoming armoured opponents, the victory is the rebels to exploit, not NATO's or other western interests. So far NATO has been a good actor in this and if it remains an honest provider of aid should maintain a friendship of benefit to all.