Cities Beginning With B
This is the long-awaited update to a post I made in August of last year where I explained my situation to those who were interested. As one has come to expect from my life, [more...]
rants
The Myth of Ready
Are you ready?
Of course you aren’t. Who knows what the future holds? You certainly don’t. [more...]
The Situation
My life isn’t exactly a shining example of what people imagine as being “normal”, but in recent times it has made the transition from being simply [more...]
On Jobs (not Steve)
The Unemployment Rate of Selected EU Countries (source: Google Public Data) People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere [more...]
Musings on Economic Inequality
One of the most fascinating machines I've tried to understand recently is the way we allocate scarce resources - economics. It is interesting for many reasons, and one of them is... [more...]
Gun Control
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...]
Christmas Post
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...]
Wishlist – The World
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...]
Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness
In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about [more...]
Partij voor de Vrijheid
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...]
Obligatory Rant
beyone petroleum… but not bullshit It’s that time of the year again, and I am once again in a reflective mood about the state of the world in which we live. That [more...]
Musings on Torrents
File exchange on a distributed network Torrents are wonderful things. For those who are unfamiliar (and it is entirely possible to be unfamiliar yet still be a regular user), [more...]
A Perspective on Economics
So I want to save the world right. Turns out the world is a very complicated thing and, in order to have any hope of fixing its problems, one must understand many different [more...]