Monthly Archives: April 2008

a bullbar for my bicycle…

April 23, 2008 – 8:30 pm

Dear reader: Take the first couple of paragraphs with a grain of salt as they are based on comments as reported in the Moreland Leader. Seems there is a possibility that this wasn’t exactly what was said. All the same, the stuff I said isn’t all suddenly wrong either, so I’ll leave it here.
Breathtaking arrogance [...]

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overcrowding on melbourne’s trains? problem solved!

April 20, 2008 – 9:21 pm

Got a laugh out of this one:

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I beg to differ…

April 13, 2008 – 8:48 pm

A well organised march in support of the Chinese government’s position on Tibet. Most of the participants were university students – organised through the Chinese Student societies at various universities.

A few points…

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negative feedback

April 9, 2008 – 11:09 am

In these days of social networks, recommendations and feedback, how do you give seriously negative feedback?
I would like the world to know how useless a former staff member was, but can’t bring myself to write comments directly on their linkedin profile (christ, we were just glad to get rid of them!), but almost every day [...]

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Ballina’s last resort

April 7, 2008 – 9:43 am

Well here I am at Ballina Beach Resort, the venue for Ausweb08 – one of the world’s oldest internet based conferences. It doesn’t have the cachet of the newcomers like Web Directions, but it still attracts some good thinkers and some interesting topics.
One of the features of this conference, however, is that it is always [...]

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RACV – fossils fuel the road debate

April 1, 2008 – 9:12 am

Each month I get the RACV magazine, Royalauto; and almost without fail, I am appalled by their dated, conservative, tunnel-vision approach to problems on our roads.
This month, the cover boasts a “Special Roads Report. Congestion: the solutions“, so I thought I’d see what the 1950’s think tank had come up with this time. Living in [...]

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