Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

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Appalling Quality of Journalism Today

If you’ve been living in the western world this week you’ve probably heard of the woes with News Corporation and News International regarding the phone tapping ‘scandal’ at the News of the World newspaper. To me, the scandal itself is bad enough, but realistically it only highlights what I’ve been thinking myself for many years [...]

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Why Evolution Makes No Sense

So if you’ve been here before you’ll know that I generally blog about IT Stuff that requires some kind of fix. I try to make my blog articles useful in some way to the people that come here to read them. But you may have also noticed there’s a Christian category on the site and [...]

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Started At University – Some Tips For New Students

I’m now into week 7 of my new university course after I decided to fully embark on the career change I alluded to some time ago. I’m now officially a student paramedic at Victoria University and I’m going to try to use this blog to chronicle some of the more important aspects of my Uni [...]

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Are you unhappy? This article may help to change that

I’ve noticed a trend in the articles I’ve been reading over the past few days – quite ‘by accident’ I might add. They’re articles that have popped up on my Twitter stream and I’ve chosen to read them. They’ve not specifically been about the subject of happiness – but they have all led me to [...]

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Why Julian Assange (and WikiLeaks) is not a terrorist.

And why assigning him that label is extremely dangerous for everyone
Assange may have done things that have annoyed the American government. And probably the British and Australian governments too. In fact, possibly a whole slew of other governments throughout the world.
But doing something with which the government disagrees does not a terrorist make.
Terrorists, by definition, [...]