The first day of the rest of my life

I am now one of two dir­ect­ors of a pro­pri­et­ary lim­ited company. It seems surreal. So… today: I atten­ded the first day of my Cer­ti­fic­ate IV in Small Busi­ness Man­age­ment, my col­league Dale registered the com­pany with ASIC, he opened our busi­ness...

Surveillance and despair

“That com­pli­ance is what scares me the most. People are resigned to their fate. They’ve bought the Gov­ern­ment’s argu­ments for the public good. There is a gen­er­a­tional fail­ure of memory about indi­vidual rights. Whenever Gov­ern­ment says that some...

Israel, illegal combatants, laziness

Lots of yecch in the paper this morn­ing. p_cat said all I really needed to say so I will simply point you at it and carry on with my day. Sigh. On another note, magazine busi­ness! Chats with journey2master! Friends!

From Failed States

The threat posed by [the stores of equip­ment for pro­du­cing WMDs in the 1980s] had been put for­ward as one reason for invad­ing Iraq. These sites had been secured by UN inspect­ors but the invaders dis­missed them, leav­ing the sites unguarded. The imme­di­ate...

Two other things

1. One of my Mel­bourne Uni col­leagues, Meg Mun­dell, has writ­ten one of the best art­icles I’ve seen in recent years about bisexu­al­ity for The Age. Also, the fab­ulous nihilla (Bonnie) is inter­viewed in it. 2. Would you pay $12 for a pocket-sized book...