Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Broken Promises and Stacked Committees
Julia Gillard is probably the most cynical and deceptive politician ever to lead this nation. A few weeks ago, before the election, her mantra was, "There will be no carbon tax." Within days of getting the nod from the so-called independents it was "We will be looking at a carbon tax." ...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Interesting Aquatic Plant
This time of the year, a plant grows over all the creeks and rivers here. I haven't found out what it is called- my more knowledgeable friends will be able to help here. ...
Sesquicentenary Service
This year marks the 150th year of the town of Narrabri, and as part of the celebrations, the churches of Narrabri got together to praise God for his blessings on our land.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Swooped Again
It's dangerous walking at this time of the year. Spring time is magpie swooping season, when normally placid birds become fiercely territorial. ...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Regional Affairs Minister?
I'm not sure that Simon Crean is the best person to be Minister For Regional Affiars. And the way this is expressed it seems to me to be more like a promise they fulfil in name but not in fact, but I guess we can live in hope. ...
Evolution or Thunderbird or ...
Despite the rise of facebook as a dominant force for communication on the internet, I still rely a lot on email. Some people like web-based services such as gmail and hotmail because you don't have to bother with finicky details like POP, IMAP and SMTP accounts. But I like having my email in a separate application because for one thing it's quicker to access and you don't have to log into yet another service on your web browser to access it.
In linux (as in Windows for that matter) there's a wealth of applications available. I used to use claws-mail because it was fast, but when I switched to Ubuntu a few years back I decided to try evolution which is the default client in many linux distros. It has the advantage of having calendar clients built in and ties to a number of panel notifications for new email messages, appointments etc.
But I've been really irritated lately by how slow it is. It takes several seconds to open a new window to compose email, the same to switch to the calendar view. And with all of my contacts and calendars now stored on Google accounts to facilitate syncing with my Android phone, maybe it's time for a change.
I've been trying an old favourite Mozilla Thunderbird. Compared to evolution it's really fast and its screen lay out is quite compact. There's as much configurability as evolution and a plug in that allows for a tab with the google calendar page there at a click and much more responsive than evolution. Junk filtering seems to be as good as evolution and other filtering works quite well also.
So at the moment I'm quite happy with thunderbird. I'm sure I will run into limitations and problems, but it's great to have the opportunity to try out different applications. ...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Geeky Bit
I've been using Linux on my computers now for probably a decade, and it never cease to amaze me how easy it is to do some things ...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I Am So Tired of Malthus- Willis Eschenbach
I Am So Tired of Malthus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Daily we are deluged with gloom about how we are overwhelming the Earth’s ability to sustain and support our growing numbers. Increasing population is again being hailed as the catastrophe of the century. In addition, floods and droughts are said to be leading to widespread crop loss. The erosion of topsoil is claimed to be affecting production. It is said that we are overdrawing our resources, with more people going hungry. Paul Ehrlich and the late Stephen Schneider assure us that we are way past the tipping point, that widespread starvation is unavoidable.
Is this true? Is increasing hunger inevitable for our future? Are we really going downhill? Are climate changes (natural or anthropogenic) making things worse for the poorest of the poor? Are we running out of food? Is this what we have to face? ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
"Stephen Hawking is wrong"
Scientist, Professor John Lennox has written an excellent rebuttal of Stephen Hawking's recent claim that the universe is inevitable and self-creating. ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Todsay's Sermon
The sermon for Sunday 5th September is now available for download from the New life web-site.
In this sermon which is based on Luke 14:25-33, I talk about real discipleship. ...
Saturday, September 4, 2010
How Much Longer Can They Hold On To Power?
Under the glaring light of scientific criticism the United Nations top climate change body has just admitted that it has got nothing to do with science.
So here we are with our most recent Prime Minister declaring her faith repeatedly "I believe in climate change. I believe in human caused climate change." We have the Greens holding a gun to everybody's head saying "You will have a tax on carbon or else."
And now IPCC climate chief Pachauri admits that there are NO hard numbers on climate change, no quantifiable data, because the IPCC is not a "science body but a policy body." And the rest of the world is prepared to cripple its collective economy and sucj trillions of dollars into the carbon trading scam on the basis of this?
Have our leaders all gone insane? ...
Friday, September 3, 2010
At home!
Much as I love being away, especially for as relaxing a holiday as the one I've just had, there is no place like home. ...