I did some housekeeping recently - chopped virtually all of my twitter follows off and about half of those on facebook (with more to go). I also deleted a few accounts I'd never really used (e.g. tumblr). Its all about removing web footprint I don't actually need, want or use ( Read more... )

It is the general election on Saturday. I find that my usual local barometers have broken - the garbage in my "no circulars" mailbox test no longer seems to apply. The ill-founded public demonstrations test has failed. Even the boring fallback of trying to decide based on policy and credibility has failed due to the complete lack of any of the ( Read more... )

I don't usually do this, but I like it so much - Prof Brian Cox on "The difference between science and entertainment"

The consensus scientific view is the best we can do at any given time, given the available data and our understanding of it. It is not legitimate and certainly of no scientific value (although there may be political value) to ( Read more... )

I'm all in favour of warning messages or alerts. You know, those little pop up messages that tell you when a task is due or that there may be a problem with whatever system you are running ( Read more... )

If I unfriend/unfollow/un-whatever you in the next while, don't be offended. I'm just having a cleanup on platforms that I don't actually read anyway. The only linkages I'm leaving there are for people I don't have any other mechanism for contacting ( Read more... )

Thought I'd better post something. The DW theme where I post this has a calendar on it and it is looking so sad without any entries ( Read more... )

OK, perhaps Hutt South is not as boring as I thought - see this article about campaigning in the area. I appears that this electorate is morale central for Labour.

Still no unsolicited advertising in my mailbox though.

General election time again. Boundary changes mean I am no longer in the interesting Ohariu electorate, but rather the boring Hutt South area ( Read more... )

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The Fan Fund for Australia and New Zealand was created to strengthen the ties between Australia and New Zealand fandom. FFANZ assists fans with travel to the Natcon of the other nation, and assists with as many of the attendant costs of travel as practical, as well as facilitating connections between fans ( Read more... )