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Core Conditioning

Saturday, January 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

How does one go about training our core muscles? Most people immediately think about doing lots of situps, or crunches. If you want to have good-looking abs, then by all means do lots of situps, but this is only a small part of the story. [more...]

Gun Control

Monday, January 17, 2011 // 6 Comments

Guns will always be a controversial subject. For the record, I think guns are really cool. I've never owned a gun, and before living briefly in the US have never lived in a culture where gun ownership or use was widespread. [more...]

Tao of Travel

Friday, January 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

Traveling is a lot of fun. You get to meet people, see places, and do things that are quite outside of the scope of normal everyday life. Everyone should travel. If more people traveled, I think we'd be a little closer to world peace than we currently are. [more...]

Christmas Post

Friday, December 24, 2010 // 4 Comments

Christmas is a funny time of the year. First I am struck by the prevalence of some rather silly political correctness that I encounter in all sorts of funny places. I welcome any arguments to the contrary, [more...]

Polarize This

Saturday, October 30, 2010 // 0 Comments

To say that equipment doesn't matter (in Photography at least) would be a lie. They say that a bad tradesman blames his tools, but that is only because a truly good tradesman can extract a good [more...]

App Store Trigger App-y

Monday, October 4, 2010 // 0 Comments

I love my iPhone (can you tell?). Having owned my iPhone now for nearly a month, I can finally comment with some validity about the rest of my favourite apps. These are apps that take longer [more...]

Wishlist – The World

Monday, September 27, 2010 // 2 Comments

I'm not happy with the world. I should be more specific - the world is great, but I'm not happy about the way humans conduct themselves while they are on it. It's no secret that I have a strong [more...]

Favourite iPhone Apps

Monday, September 20, 2010 // 1 Comment

About two weeks ago, I received a long-awaited package in the mail - my new iPhone 4. My previous phone was the original iPhone, purchasedin September 2007 about two months after its initial release [more...]

More Camera Gear Talk

Thursday, September 9, 2010 // 0 Comments

Kit for turning a DSLR from a still camera into a video camera Many of the loyal readers of this website are probably wondering where I’m at in my mini-sub-career as a [more...]

Preferential Voting Explained

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 // 4 Comments

I’m pretty sure that every kid in Australia learns this at some stage of their schooling, or is supposed to. Some may have forgotten, and many didn’t care enough [more...]

Notes on Resolution

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 // 2 Comments

Standard anamorphic film with analog soundtracks visible between the image and perforations on the left. The apparent noise you see on the outside of, and in between the [more...]

Realpolitik

Saturday, July 24, 2010 // 11 Comments

Caesar meets his end There is an Australian election coming up on the 21st of August, which is exactly four weeks away. I am considering becoming involved in some way. You [more...]

Drugs in Sport

Thursday, July 22, 2010 // 2 Comments

Take your pick It’s been a while since I’ve penned a controversial post. Experience (and my web stats) have shown me that the most popular posts on this website [more...]

Bootstraps and the Meaning of Money

Saturday, July 17, 2010 // 1 Comment

Of course, physics tells us that we cant pull ourselves up… There’s a peculiar little saying that many of you have probably heard, and that is “to pull [more...]

Partij voor de Vrijheid

Saturday, June 12, 2010 // 4 Comments

Dutch election results by municipality Contrary to popular belief, I don’t like to be nasty to people. While it is certainly true that I have a pugnacious side to my [more...]
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