Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nuclear : why there should be no debate

March 23, 2011 – 8:42 pm

Like the rest of the world, I’ve watched, appalled as the people of Japan dealt with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear. Only slightly less appalling is the way the nuclear lobby have pointed to Fukushima as an example of why nuclear energy is safe and good. I don’t pretend to be an [...]

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Duh! you already pay a carbon tax!!

March 23, 2011 – 8:17 pm

To the dummies who don’t want a carbon tax… Do you realise that we, the Australian taxpayer, currently PAY the fossil fuel industry $9 billion dollars a year? They are a drain on your pocket to the tune of around $450 per person, per year. Of course they don’t want you to stop! We are [...]

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Hugh Riminton gets upstaged

March 7, 2011 – 7:39 pm

One of those “see it but don’t believe it” moments on 6pm with George Negus. Hugh Riminton starts his presentation from Washington when a dog cruises by in the background… on a skateboard! The rest of the family looked at me like I was crazy, but I wasn’t the only one to see it!

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no google, I don’t like that!

March 2, 2011 – 4:48 pm

In the wake of my previous post, I was checking out some of the photos on Google maps of Sydney Road, one of my photos came up first, which was nice, but then I started navigating around the nearby photos… they were all crappy photos of a shoe store! I probably missed this addition, but [...]

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StreetView updates… eventually!

March 2, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Couple of new things on Google Maps / Street View. They’ve added some new imagery captured by the trike, Google Earth Blog has a good write up of the additions. While I was there, I was alerted by user “Munden” that the blue dots of user generated photos had disappeared from the Google Maps when [...]

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