Writing

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

Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen review Jun 2009

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5196716&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen review from Cameron Reilly on Vimeo. Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen is prety good as far as blockbusters go if…

GDay World 381 Reloaded Jun 2009

Hey folks, apparently I screwed up the track alignment in show 381 (about banks) so there is a fair amount of overlapping of voices. (Thanks to Anthony Voevodin…

Why Letting Banks Fail Is Actually Good For Real People Jun 2009

Continuing our theme about banks this week, a friend sent me a link to the ChangeThis site which has a manifesto from Douglas Rushkoff. Here are a couple…

The Govt Hates Banks Too Jun 2009

The Commonwealth Bank announced that it is raising interest rates by 10 base points (which is 0.1% to the rest of us). Deputy prime minister Julia Gillard called…

Today is Che Day Jun 2009

June 14 is the birthday of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna known to most of us by his nickname "Che". If all you know about Che is stuff…

GDay World 381 – Why We Hate Banks (part one) Jun 2009

UPDATE: The original audio for this show had a problem (overlapping tracks) so I’ve re-uploaded it here. We hate banks. (see my recent poll) It’s true. You know…

Time Is An Illusion Jun 2009

Scott Adams tells us about the illusion of time: People keep sending me links to articles about how time is an illusion and not a quality of the…

They don’t get it because they don’t use it. Jun 2009

The reason no record label knows how to market anything to new media is they don’t live there. They don’t get it because they don’t use it. –…

Why People Hate Aussie Banks Jun 2009

Today I’m recording a podcast about why people hate banks so much – and what we can do about it. I’m interviewing a range of people about banks,…

GDay World 380 – Yvonne Bornstein, 11 Days Of Hell Jun 2009

In 1992, Melbourne businesswoman Yvonne Bornstein and her husband Daniel went to Russia on a business trip. They were kidnapped at the airport and tortured for 11 days…