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Who am I?

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The more I learn
The more I realise
How little I know

2024

Missing Mail Mystery: When the Public Good is neglected

2023

Equality: What is equality?
Courtesy: Different forms of politeness.

2022

Population: Is the population of planet Earth sustainable?
Commonwealth: Is there a case for reform of Australia's Constitution?

2021

Bludgers: A term that I've been hearing far too often
Building a door: My first attempt

2020

Capitalism's End: Will Capitalism last forever?
Labour: What is wrong with the labour market?
Lessons in a bottle: What can we learn from a product of the past?
Principles.: What do we care about?
COVID-19: Risks, Opportunities and Questions.: The COVID-19 epidemic will end. What can we learn from it? How can we make Australia a better place?

2019

How dangerous is extreme Capitalism?: Thoughts on the risks of unfettered Capitalism.
Raspberry Pi download scheduler: My solution to using bandwidth that's only available when I'd rather be asleep.

2018

WH2950 weather station: Adventures with a PanTech(Fine Offset) weather station.

2017

Netregistry must die!: My experiences lead me to view Netregistry as a prime candidate for corporate execution.
On Corporate Entities: We really need some way to effectively "execute" rogue corporations.

2016

Who are the Conservatives?: Thoughts on a phenomenon that seems to me, increasingly pathological.
Political parties registered to run at the 2016 Federal election: Brief analyses of the many political parties that are registered to field candidates at the 2016 Federal election
Where are we? Where should we head?: The shameful state of Australia's telecommunications network
No Recourse: When entities are protected by the government, a citizen has few avenues if things go wrong

Earlier

TomTom Follies: What happened when I needed support for my TomTom GPS unit
DGTEC DG-HD2104AND: A set-top box with Android and PVR functionality
Boat People: Should we try to stop the boats?
An open letter to Joel Fitzgibbon.
Free Speech and Responsibility: When abuse of privilege leads to tragedy, who will be held to account?
Eddie McGuire's Tax: If a club cannot exist without exploiting the vulnerable, should we tolerate its continued existence?
What's behind Tony Abbott?: Thoughts on the one who has taken Australian politics so far from Australian traditions.
Insurance.: Ramblings on a subject that most of us take for granted.
Censorship.: On the pathological need Australian politicians evidently have to control what information is available to the voters.
Perverts in Parliament? Worrying observations on the filter.
A letter to the member. Text of a letter handed to the receptionist at the Cessnock electoral office of Joel Fitzgibbon on 14 July 2010.
Kogan eBook reader.: Kogan Model KGNEBK6VAA eBook Reader.
MiGEAR eBook reader.: MiGEAR Model BSTE100 eBook Reader.
IPStar.: A Python script to poll and log output of the IPStar satellite modem.
Bluemaxx.: My experiences with Bluemaxx Communications.
An exchange with Dead Parrot.: An account of my disagreement with a Whirlpool forum moderator and its (evidently) inevitable outcome.
The price of parsimony.: The dark side of call centres.
Astone AP-360T.: Sad tale of an Astone Media Gear AP-360T network media player/PVR.
On Telecommunications: Discussion, observations and a bit of the history of telecommunications from the late 1980s to the mid 2000s, concentrating on a small part of the Hunter Valley.
Battery pack ripoff: Dummy-spit on a predictable commercial evil.

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Last updated 10 March 2024