Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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Yay ADSL2!
Just got an email from my ISP (the fabulous Internode) to tell me that my upgrade to ADSL2 will be happening sometime next week. Should pretty much quadruple my internet connection speed, which will be very nice indeed.
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Weight: 111.9kg
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Weight: 111.6kg
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1/12/06
Weight: 111.5kg
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Labor leadership: It’s on
Exciting times: Kim Beazley has put his job on the line by announcing a caucus leadership ballot for Monday morning. Ballots will also be called for the deputy leadership as well as all positions on Labor’s frontbench. (From the Herald). I don’t know who to go for here. Beazley has shown himself to be serially…
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Will I live longer because I live in Canberra?
News Limited reports: The Australian Capital Territory record the highest life expectancy for males and females at 79.9 and 84 years respectively. Which they headline ‘Live longer, live in Canberra’. But of course, this is the wrong way around. Living in Canberra is very unlikely to do anything for you. But the kind of people…
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Fairfax versus News Limited
First, the background (from the Sydney Morning Herald): The annual Walkley Awards for journalism were rocked by an attack on stage on Thursday night at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Controversial crikey.com.au writer Stephen Mayne was attacked by Sunday Telegraph columnist Glenn Milne. Mayne had just finished awarding the best business news report to the…
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Good news
Well, as it’s finally been announced, I can tell people that I was just promoted to EL2 within the Department of the Treasury. I’ll be staying in more or less my current position, but my current position will be expanded a little bit with more responsibilities. Oh, and I bought one of these.
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First 500 words
I made an attempt in November to try and write a novel, but it was pretty farcical: I only managed to make time for it on the first day, and after that it was all downhill… The next four or five days I couldn’t find the spare hour, and then I was so far behind it wasn’t…
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Another T-Shirt I need to own…
From Way of the Rodent. I’d order it, but I’ve already spent something like $200 on geeky T-shirts this year.