Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

Read John Ashton’s Shell Smackdown Mar 2015

John Ashton, who served as Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 2006 to 2012, delivered a speech last week at the Conseil…

How To Feed System Audio Into Skype On A Mac Jan 2015

If you have ever wanted to feed your system audio into a Skype call – for example, you’re recording a podcast and you want to play a clip…

How To Monetize Podcasts Jan 2015

About seven weeks ago, I launched my latest project – The Life Of Alexander The Great history podcast, with my partner, the ever-polite southern gentleman, Ray Harris.   We…

A Decade Of Podcasting Nov 2014

Today is the tenth anniversary of my first podcast – G’Day World #1 in 2004. It wasn’t only MY first podcast, it was a milestone in a number…

Best Australian Podcasts? Sep 2014

What are the best podcasts in Australia? Of course, there is the Life Of Caesar podcast I co-host with Ray Harris, which sits in the Top 100 on…

Alan Alda on Free Will and Science Aug 2014

Hawkeye Pierce gets it. In this interview with Robert Sapolsky from Stanford, they talk about the illusion of free will. This interview is pretty good too.

What If Australia Was Palestine? Aug 2014

  How would you, as an Australian, feel if the majority of the non-Jewish Australian population had been forced by a superior military (supported by the United States) into the green…

The Hypocrisy Over MH17 Is Killing Me Jul 2014

The outrage over the suggestion that Russia might have provided or sold the rocket launcher that downed MH17 and killed 300 civilians is such a joke when the…

Using Evernote To Review Your Kindle Book Highlights Jul 2014

If you’re like me, you read a lot of books on your iPad and make lots of notes. Wouldn’t it be great to have a way to use…

Australia – The Outlaw Nation Jul 2014

According to the SMH, the Abbott Federal Government’s position on sending asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka is against the law. Australian international law experts have uniformly condemned…