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February 11, 2015
Brilliant interview with Yanis Varoufakis
Originally posted on Colinology:
Yanis Varoufakis, the new finance minister for Greece, is quite brilliant. And this is a brilliant interview with him.
Yanis Varoufakis, the new finance minister for Greece, is quite brilliant. And this is a brilliant interview with him.
February 10, 2015
EmergencyAus – great tech support!
I recently wrote a post about a smartphone app called ‘EmergencyAus’. It was not a happy post because I was not getting all the available notifications about potential bushfires in my area. [Note: one of the things I’ve always hated about summer/fire season in Warrandyte is the fear of not knowing when a fire is […]
February 8, 2015
Tony Abbott stays. Not happy Jan.
I just watched Phillip Ruddock announce that the Spill motion in the Cabinet was defeated in a secret ballot. Quite substantially too. So the Mad Monk stays. For those unfamiliar with Australia politics, the Prime Minister is not chosen by the electorate. He, or she is chosen by either the Coalition Cabinet [Liberals] or the […]
February 7, 2015
I’ve been a victim of an SMS scam :(
I’ve always hated my smartphone, but today I hate it even more because I’ve just discovered that I’m the victim of an expensive scam. This is what I think happened : – I was browsing [on my desktop, not the phone] and came across some kind of competition – it may have been to win […]
February 5, 2015
SP Ausnet to Black Saturday to dollars
Around this time last year, I wrote a post about the houses lost to fire here in Warrandyte, and the possible role SP Ausnet had played in those losses. At the time, even I felt as if I was doing a bit of conspiracy theorizing. Today, however, I know I was spot on the money […]
February 4, 2015
Is this the end of Aussie apathy?
Back in the ’70s, when I was going to uni., we used to bemoan the fact that our parents, and most ‘adult’ Australians, just didn’t care about big, political issues. So long as the economy was ticking along nicely, they were happy to keep the incumbent government in power. For example, Sir Robert Menzies was […]
January 27, 2015
At last! Commonsense in teaching
I know I’m a good teacher because I get results. My students experience ‘ah hah’ moments when something opaque suddenly becomes clear. But my teaching methods are not new-age. I do not ‘facilitate’ learning per se because I know that anything new is scary, and students need clear, step-by-step instructions …to get the basics. Once […]
January 25, 2015
When science meets fiction, and they have a love-child
My thanks to the Passive Guy for highlighting the following article in the Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/book... The article talks about the symbiosis that exists between hard science, and the speculative, highly imaginative and sometimes unlikely stories we weave from it. I count myself as one of the ‘we’ even though most of my formal education was […]
January 24, 2015
List of book promotion sites
Apologies to all my non writer friends. Today’s post is to share info. about this very handy list, and save it somewhere safe for my own use. Believe it or not, I’ve actually gone back to some of my own posts in order to check a how-to, or some other piece of information. Having it […]
January 20, 2015
Paddington B Bear – just too cute to resist!
My thanks to Moviejoltz for posting this delightful trailer. :) Enjoy! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: delightful, movie, Paddington, teaser, trailer
