Today Paul Montgomery from Fan Footy joins me to talk about the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, IMF and UN Security Council. I’ve just finished reading George Monbiot’s 2003 book “The Age Of Consent” and it’s made me want to learn more about how these international bodies operate.
Monty and I also chat about [...]

 

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Back in the chair today after the QLD trip and meeting all day yesterday. Looking forward to making some casts. Doing the next Napoleon and a GW today. Paul Montgomery is going to join me on GW. Want to talk about the IMF and WTO. Also my review of the wicked headphones the nice people [...]

Dr Mohamed Haneef is a 27-year old physician who was arrested on July 2, 2007 at the Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia for suspected terror-related activities, specifically in connection to 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. He has currently been held in prison by Australian authorities for 24 days without being charged and now that it is [...]

TPN’s latest podcast is Take Two - interviews with Australian business leaders by Leon Gettler, management and economics commentator for The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia, and technology editor Garry Barker. Check out their interview with Justin Milne, CEO of Telstra BigPond.
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Ah… the clean country air of Bundaberg….
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David Chappelle is Black Bush. Classic.

Neet and I went to see KNOCKED UP last night in Brissy. I loved it. Terrific little film. Lots of laughs, the premise, script and cast are all first rate.
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Russell Buckley sent me a link to this video that is like an ad for atheism. Nicely done.

Sitting in Brisbane with nothing much to do…
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Saw a great 2006 German film earlier at the Dendy in George Street called “Vier Minuten” or “Four Minutes”. It’s the story of an elderly lesbian piano teacher who works at a women’s prison and accepts a violent young student with massive natural talent to deal with her [...]

Bundaberg. Cold. Slow. No 3G. Using my mum’s PC. She’s on some bullshit BigPond DSL plan where she only gets 400Mb a month for $40!! And it’s nearly used up, so I’m moving her to Dodo this morning. Screw Telstra BigPond and their bullshit data plans. Everyone - make sure your parents are getting screwed [...]

I am looking for a new person to help us run TPN’s backend. This isn’t a full-time position as yet, just a part-time after hours kind of gig but with a view to making it a full-time position with TPN stock options at some stage this year. Interested parties should email me with their CV. [...]

Geez louise.
If you must… you can register for MODM 4 on Upcoming.
Oh but wait - what about all the people who said for the last couple of month… “oh I don’t want to register on Yahoo just to come to your smelly function!”???
Then go away and leave me alone. Go back to [...]

What is it with all of the Facebook phobia I’m hearing lately? Today alone I have had three people tell me they either don’t want to sign up to Facebook or that they have signed up begrudgingly.
Here’s one email I just received from someone I’ll keep anonymous to protect the innocently luddite:
You’ll be highly [...]