Success isn’t the first word that springs to mind when you find yourself, as I did, unemployed. Even more so when the job you’ve held down for the past three years happens to be managing your own business! It’s a long and convoluted story, probably best left untold, but the fact is these things happen. [...]
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Carbon Tax – Is Peter Ryan insane?
Peter Ryan’s (acting Premier, VIC) published remarks in the Herald Sun, after the government’s announcement of the Carbon Tax plan on Sunday, strike me as a shining example of the banality of the whole Carbon Tax/Climate change argument, and to a large degree the calibre of the people ‘leading’ it. I’ve said it a few times now [...]
Baza’s solar energy rebate backflip…
The NSW Government’s solar energy rebate, and it’s 60 cents per kilowatt hour feed in tariff – at the time – was a major influence in my decision to install Solar Panels. Seems the same can be said for every second house on our street. As I’ve alluded to in other posts I am skeptical [...]
Unsubscribe from everything
I’ve had cause recently to make some changes to my email addresses, both personal and business, and as a result I have, without hesitation, unsubscribed from everything coming in that’s not immediately pertinent to my current priorities. I don’t need to tell you how much of a distraction your email inbox can be – full [...]
Mark Hurd, HP’s Toxic CEO resigns after a sexual harassment investigation.
I woke up this morning to hear that Mark Hurd – HP’s Toxic CEO resigns after a sexual harassment investigation. Guess what Mark – you never did! I suppose there’s a sense of vindication here, I always believed that Mark Hurd was not only the living contradiction of everything HP’s corporate values stood for, he [...]
Australian Election 2010 – Who Are You Really Voting For?
The 2010 Australian Election has me thinking that there’s no way I’m simply voting above the line this time around. Leaving it up to the major parties is not what I consider a democratic, or responsible option. The problem though is how to determine who to vote for, below the line, before you’re confronted by [...]
Australian Labor – Let’s move Australia forward to what?
Australian Labor – Let’s move Australia forward, a slogan, one of the many we’re being bombarded with by both the current Government and the Opposition in the race to the Federal Election in August. A six week race full of meaningless platitudes, treating voters like imbeciles, rhetoric, and unfounded promises, which, if you consider what [...]
The red pill or the blue pill?
The red pill or the blue pill question in The Matrix, a movie I really enjoy (the 1st one that is) represents, for me, the question, or continual enquiry, do you choose to see the world how you have been conditioned to think it is, or do you choose to see it how it actually [...]
Kevin Rudd’s hard day at the office
Kevin Rudd found out the hard way this week that democracy moves in tough ways, particularly here in Australia. My opinion is that, regardless of what we think of the brutality of Rudd’s sacking, the Labor party factions saw the writing on the wall and made the move that the electorate would have given the [...]
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SOPA – Who said People can’t make a difference?
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Surfing – imagine this is your “day at the office”.
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Surfing – what to do when you suck
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Yes, you can!
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Success!
- HP Pay Cuts – an unfair act of economic opportunism and greed.
- Mark Hurd contributes another 6000 unemployed to the global recession!
- Mark Hurd and HP, economic opportunism and greed, one year on.
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Mark Hurd, HP’s Toxic CEO resigns after a sexual harassment investigation.
- Intense Debate versus Disqus, the clincher…
- What I Learned From Clicking Unsubscribe: [...] button image found via Damian Saunders who a...
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Kaz Masters: yes indeedy do....
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Jeffrey Wells: Hi Damian, it’s so good to see some people are o...
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Job Sajoke: Looks as though another tactic being employed by o...
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Damian Saunders: You're welcome, happy to help. My experience is t...
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SOPA – Who said People can’t make a difference?
One of the fundamental tenants of freedom and democracy is Government by the People, for the People. The operative word being ‘by’. ‘By’ being synonymous with participation. The very real and emerging alternative is Government by the Corporation, for the Corporation. That’s called (and is the definition of) Fascism. The first truth is that the [...]