Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
In case you missed the announcement, I recently launched a new TPN podcast: The Peter Ellyard Show. Peter has been a good friend and regular guest on this…
We just got back from the first Brisbane meetup around #nocleanfeed. It was a pretty huge turnout, I’d guess 100 people. Well done to @nicholasperkins and everyone else…
Rangan Srikhanta is the Executive Director, One Laptop per Child Australia. On this show he chats with me about their efforts to get laptops into the hands of…
I was reading more of Clive Splash’s writing over the last few days and it struck me why I’m always getting into arguments with people about how we’re…
It was announced today that Dr Clive Splash has resigned from the CSIRO because the organisation was censoring his attempts to criticize Cap and Trade schemes. As I’m…
I’m reading the Australian government’s CPRS white paper tonight and there are some issues that I don’t understand. In the Foreword, the paper says: “… we have more…
On holidays in Melbourne, having an awesome time showing @fddlgrl all of my favourite haunts. Just have one quick thought to share with you. We need to stop…
Oh come ON. This CRU hack story is the biggest beat-up I’ve heard in a long time. Of the 4000 documents and emails they hackers got their hands…
… these are an entire philosophy. For my money, The Wire was the most intelligent television show ever made. I wasn’t just the depth of the analysis of…
If you don’t find this whole thing totally ridiculous and abhorrent, then I suggest you need to wake the hell up. It’s 2009 and you people still allow…