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Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code
The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers.
Copilot stopped talking to me.
I was reading some polemic from Bettina Arndt recently about women taking over the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I would the check the facts. This is my modus operandi. Read polar views on an issue (I also consult Ourwatch and White Ribbon) but then check the facts to see who deceive and lie (which these days go under the Orwellian names of “mis” and “dis” information).
New clobber
As you can see we’ve adopted a new WordPress theme. Many thanks to our web guru Tony Sarhanis. What do you think? I really like it, although I have one reservation.You can’t scroll down the main posts column until the cursor gets to the bottom of the comments column. I suspect that’s a deliberate feature rather than a bug, because it forces the eye to look at the comments first.
Vale David Tiley
David Tiley was one of the early generation of bloggers in Australia, starting in 2003, approximately the same time as I started. I first met him at a blogging meet-up in St Kilda (where David lived) in about 2005. Blogging was much more social in those days, and there were frequent meet-ups of the more enthusiastic bloggers.
Minority government would be no bad thing
The common view from politicians and so-called experts is that minority government is dreadful. I don’t agree. Nor, it seems, does former Rudd and Gillard ministerial advisor Sean Kelly. In an article in today’s Age newspaper, Kelly says:
House of Grief?
A few years ago I read a book by the iconic Australian author Helen Garner titled “House of Grief”. It dealt with the trial and conviction of a man named Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three young sons Jai (age 11), Bailey (age 7) and Tyler (age 3) on Fathers’ Day in 2005.