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Cities Beginning With B

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

This is the long-awaited update to a post I made in August of last year where I explained my situation to those who were interested. As one has come to expect from my life, [more...]

The Myth of Ready

Saturday, October 3, 2015 // 3 Comments

Are you ready? Of course you aren’t. Who knows what the future holds? You certainly don’t. [more...]

The Situation

Friday, August 28, 2015 // 3 Comments

My life isn’t exactly a shining example of what people imagine as being “normal”, but in recent times it has made the transition from being simply [more...]

On Jobs (not Steve)

Sunday, May 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

The Unemployment Rate of Selected EU Countries (source: Google Public Data) People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere [more...]

Musings on Economic Inequality

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 // 0 Comments

One of the most fascinating machines I've tried to understand recently is the way we allocate scarce resources - economics. It is interesting for many reasons, and one of them is... [more...]

Gun Control

Monday, January 17, 2011 // 6 Comments

Guns will always be a controversial subject. For the record, I think guns are really cool. I've never owned a gun, and before living briefly in the US have never lived in a culture where gun ownership or use was widespread. [more...]

Christmas Post

Friday, December 24, 2010 // 4 Comments

Christmas is a funny time of the year. First I am struck by the prevalence of some rather silly political correctness that I encounter in all sorts of funny places. I welcome any arguments to the contrary, [more...]

Wishlist – The World

Monday, September 27, 2010 // 2 Comments

I'm not happy with the world. I should be more specific - the world is great, but I'm not happy about the way humans conduct themselves while they are on it. It's no secret that I have a strong [more...]

Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

Monday, September 13, 2010 // 1 Comment

In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about [more...]

Partij voor de Vrijheid

Saturday, June 12, 2010 // 4 Comments

Dutch election results by municipality Contrary to popular belief, I don’t like to be nasty to people. While it is certainly true that I have a pugnacious side to my [more...]

Obligatory Rant

Friday, June 4, 2010 // 2 Comments

beyone petroleum… but not bullshit It’s that time of the year again, and I am once again in a reflective mood about the state of the world in which we live. That [more...]

Musings on Torrents

Monday, May 31, 2010 // 0 Comments

File exchange on a distributed network Torrents are wonderful things. For those who are unfamiliar (and it is entirely possible to be unfamiliar yet still be a regular user), [more...]

Earth Day

Saturday, April 24, 2010 // 2 Comments

Eyjafjallajokull – try saying that 10 times in a hurry It has come to my attention that today is Earth Day… or perhaps it was yesterday, or the day before. In [more...]

Change

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 // 0 Comments

“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain”, so said John F. Kennedy once. Every now and then, one passes through an anniversary [more...]

A Perspective on Economics

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 // 5 Comments

So I want to save the world right. Turns out the world is a very complicated thing and, in order to have any hope of fixing its problems, one must understand many different [more...]
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