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Friday 05th March 2010

Biofuels ain’t no silver bullet thing

Chinese New Year on Orchard Rd

I fancy myself a bit of a greenie (I’ve even voted for them), but I’m not that impressed by biofuels, at least not so far.

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Thursday 04th March 2010

Answering @JJProjects about $100 million

It’s one of those age old questions (adjusted for inflation), what would you do if you suddenly had 100 million dollars?

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Friday 26th February 2010

Apple’s unfortunate environment backstep

Photo Copyright Apple Inc.

It seems Apple’s much publicised environmental focus which they’ve heavily advertised and proudly featured in their demonstration videos will be the furthest extent of their openness. From FastCompany.com:

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Wednesday 17th February 2010

We need Aussie high speed rail!

What I love about Twitter is the spontaneousness (is that a word?) of random discussions about virtually anything. Today @oliyoung, @chimpocalypse and I were responding to the South Aussie government’s ambitious road plans by taking about high speed rail and how Australia desperately needs it.

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Sunday 20th December 2009

Letter for the leaders in Copenhagen

Dwarfed

Won’t make any difference of course.

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Thursday 17th December 2009

James Cameron’s Avatar was AMAZING

James Cameron's Avatar

Just saw the Singapore preview screening of James Cameron’s Avatar. Its now 1am (hence the timestamp of this post showing Thursday) and I have to get up early in the morning so I’ll be brief, but my initial impression can be summarised as: whoa.

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Tuesday 01st December 2009

Tony Abbott, Liberal Party self destructing

It just goes from worse to even worse for these guys. The Liberal Party in Australia has a new ultra conservative leader, has moved even further to the far-right and is self destructing. And darn NoScript blocking Flash in a humorous way on their website ;).

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Sunday 22nd November 2009

Please consider the environment before printing

ThinkBeforePrinting.org

It’s probably a combination of reverse psychology and the need to stick it to the man, but I wonder how many more emails have been needlessly printed since people started following the advice of sites like ThinkBeforePrinting.org and started appending “Please consider the environment before printing this email?”.

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Sunday 15th November 2009

Burning coal a bit different from breathing!

Smokestacks from a wartime production plant, World War II.

I read this comment on an ABC Australia blog talking about human population growth and climate change and despite having other work to do I couldn’t help but comment on it. It’s an impulse thing.

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Sunday 18th October 2009

Lucy in the park with flowers

Fragile

There seems to be a theme developing here. In part one of my mid semester walk around the park photo set I had images of ducks and other aviary animal critter thingys, and in part two I had photos of plants that looked like breakfast cereals. True story.

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.