Too much work, random thoughts

Wading through volun­teer jobs I prom­ised to do that now have to be done on week­ends instead of during my lazy (ha!) week­days of yestermonth. A silly real­isa­tion yes­ter­day that I was very chuffed about: con­nect­ing the phrase “à  tes souhaits”...

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...

Sydney/Melbourne

Quick com­ment before I plunge into IFJ work: Does the fact that the major­ity of people who com­men­ted on my last post are from Mel­bourne prove my point?