Christmas is usually to busy to blog, between this, that, and the beer. But that’s OK, cos chances are you’ll be too busy with your Christmas New Year’s stuff to come and visit too often. To keep you busy if you are desperate, here’s a bunch of links to work your way through.
If [...]

“Commercial refrigeration equipment was first developed in Australia, where the winters weren’t cold enough to produce much natural ice. A brewery was the first company to commission an artificial ice making plant (in 1865) so cooling Australian lager was the first use of artificial refrigeration.”
It’s true. People talk about war being good for technology [...]

The story of Christmas, properly understood, asserts that God is not best imagined as an all-powerful despot but as a vulnerable and pathetic child. It’s a statement about the nature of divine power.
Link to an article discussing how many Christians like to reduce Jesus to Christmas and Easter, a Jesus who is “either too young [...]

When a tiny spider bites a big human being, exactly what does it intend to do with the body? Does it try to wrap it up, get three times round and go “Oops, out of web!”? Surely we’re too heavy to drag off into a nest somewhere?
On Friday morning, I woke up with a [...]

OK I mentioned christmas lights outside your house, but I have to make an exception for this, the geek factor takes it way beyond mere Christmas excess. See the choreographed Christmas lights

Came across the information that you can salary sacrifice one laptop per year without your employer incurring FBT on that – salary sacrifice is where “you agree to forego part of your salary or wages in return for your employer (or someone associated with your employer) providing benefits of a similar value”. Effectively, you [...]

Somebody is having a joke I think. Have a good look at the computer…

(A musical in two acts. Well, two scenes really. )
Scene 1 : PM and Treasurer are in the Parliamentary library, looking through old books for ways to amend the constitution without having to call a referendum and submit to the pesky will of the people.
Treasurer : So I said, why don’t you marry homeless [...]

In the last few weeks the Coalition government has used its majority in both houses of Parliament to push through all manner of unpopular legislation. Age article here or reproduced past the read more link.
The most publicised have been the oppressive ‘Security’ package and the stripping of employee’s rights by the ‘Work Choices’ programme, [...]

Christmas irks me. Not just because of modern materialism coopting the birth of Christ, that’s fair enough since we just coopted Pagan gifting and midwinter celebrations anyway. That’s an issue for Christians, but as the purely secular feast it’s still a horror.
I hate decorations out the front of houses. That is the ultimate [...]