Despite not knowing the first thing about graphic design, I’m a unabashed logo and symbol nerd so I’ve been intently following the story of India’s search for a Rupee symbol. Now Reuters is reporting they’ve found one. Reminds me of something.
Friday 16th July 2010
Tuesday 13th July 2010
Grabbing a quick coffee at our local deli this morning I happened upon an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by David Flynn talking about the utopian idea of all day battery power. Where do I sign up? :)
Monday 12th July 2010
Some civil liberty groups are championing the news that Senator Conroy’s plan to filter Australian internet has been put "on hold", but personally I’m still just as jaded and pessimistic as I was before. Conroy and his cronies haven’t said they’re scrapping it which is the only sensible thing to do, they’ve simply pushed it to a time after the federal elections to spare themselves some embarrassment.
While we’re also talking about this, David Ramli of ARNNET is reporting that it seems Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce has also put his support behind the mandatory filter which leads us to one very important question: can we all stop calling Barnaby Joyce a maverick, rouge, super elite senator please? Yes he’s taken issue with a few things the coalition have proposed in the past, but reading these descriptions at the start of every single story about him starting to get a little long in the tooth.
Thursday 24th June 2010
A case of another leader who started with a lot of promise but failed to deliver like so many other politicians, so they were replaced. Sounds like Japan.
Saturday 05th June 2010
With the (continuing) disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, in true technocratic style Dmitry Medvedev has proposed a pragmatic, logical idea: an international environment fund. So it probably won’t ever happen.
Wednesday 02nd June 2010
For those of you not reading the independent North Korean Economic Report site, its writer Curtis Melvin is reporting some fresh attacks against their systems that seem to have come from their namesake. And I thought I had tough critics.
By themselves these two interest rate stories about Australia and Canada wouldn’t really be worth mentioning here, but when they appeared in my Twitter client together they made for an interesting contrast:
CBC News: Bank of Canada raises interest rate to 0.5% Read more:… http://bit.ly/cAB6Cx
SBS News: Reserve Bank of Australia keeps interest rates on hold at 4.5 per cent http://bit.ly/ag0E4B
WOW! I suppose I should move to Canada and buy an apartment, eh!
Friday 28th May 2010
Jaw, meet floor. To be fair to Fox News, at least they had one dissenting panelist who scoffed at the idea that oil was just in a "few isolated patches", and that nature could take care of it. Frankly, the moment Brit asked "Where’s the oil?" I would have informed him it’s in his skull, where his brain should be.
I post this because Singapore is dealing with its own oil spill now too. Obviously its an order of magnitude smaller than what BP managed to do in the US, but given Singapore is barely the size of a country town in land area the effects are being felt all over the place. The smell, mostly :P.
Friday 21st May 2010
Hey, when I saw these two stories in my sleep induced state early this morning it made my smile ;).
For what it’s worth, I’ve never personally called women birds, but I’ve heard it a lot. I thought it was an Aussie euphemism, but Jesse Lloyd says it’s a British thing. I guess she would know, being a bird and all!
Saturday 15th May 2010
I’m an avid reader of Deutsche Welle’s English news site and subscribe to their Twitter feeds because my dad is German, and they tend to be far less sensationalist and more factual than other news sources. Still, this recent story shows even they can fall into the trap set for them by large software companies.
