I recently got into an extensive FaceBook conversation/debate with someone that was somewhat ridiculous, but we all do stupid things from time to time. This debate was about CO2 emissions and the role of man. The person on the other side of the debate is a big fan of Lord Monckton, the media shill who [...]
Yesterday was a busy day… in fact the whole week was crazy when I come to think about it. But yesterday more than most days… In the morning I attended an event to mark 50 years of friendship between Korea and Australia. (I was there as the proxy for Professor Gordon Wallace from ACES where [...]
Amazing, isn’t it? Everyone wants to get rich quick. The reality is that most people who get rich do it slowly. If you get lucky along the line and make a kazillion fast, that is a great outcome for you. But the reality is that to do so, you probably were going to do it [...]
Amazing to think that it wasn't too long ago that EMI Records ruled the waves… This was the company that in the '60's brought us the Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Freddy And The Dreamers… Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, The Band… And then more recently artists such as [...]
Systems evolve over time. Look at the eco-system that drives most of the western world. It has been around for a relatively short time in historical terms. It is a sub-set of capitalism that may now be showing signs of weakness as a continuing driver for wealth creation. I’m talking about consumerism. Consumerism is assumed [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
Another Koltai Rant of a personal nature. It would appear to me that the Supreme Court in New South Wales is more interested in clearing it’s docket than ensuring that justice is served. This might be because yesterday, I lost my case (filed in March 2007) against Tricom Equities. Or it might be [...]
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more, is a congress – John Adams 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain 3. Suppose you were an [...]
I listen to a lot of science on podcasts one way or another. There are the obvious programs from the ABC and BBC. But there are a lot of other radio programs that then get podcast that feature information that is science related – mainly from the BBC as far as my listening habits are [...]
On December 15th Nina Paley posted a video to You Tube called “Copyright Is Not Theft” with some video and lyrics and invited people to write music for it. Here it is: Within a day someone had provided a Gypsy Jazz soundtrack…. Here it is: By the 18th a growing number of remixes were being [...]