Marco's Blog

I'm now glad I used September 26th as a future-prediction date as this Buttonwood Economist article has used the exact same date (for 2...

As you can see from the graph, Townsville's fuel prices are nowhere near the dollar mark that I had predicted two years ago. Although oi...

in no particular order. Nation-wide water trading. Early family payments for pregnancy registrations. Easy Aus work visa/residency/citizensh...

I was just booking a hotel over the internet, while watching the start of the news. As it happened there was a breaking news item of a hotel...

The esteemed Dr. Clam and I had discussed the differences between the electoral math between the US and Australia and Dr Clam came up with s...

.. in chess is that you get to see what the opponents move is before committing to a strategy. Thus when the Democrats selected Joe Biden fo...

For months, I have had nothing interesting to say about the US election....Now suddenly I have so much I want to say that I can't keep u...

Googling Professor Ronald Laura again? I am all for balanced upbringing of my children (and children in general), but I rail against the un...

The US election wasn't inspiring me much until Sarah Palin got the VP nomination for the republicans.

Calf: Veal:

It appears there is a resurgence in cold war strategy that is apparent in Georgia. Russia had always preferred bullying in the old "Eas...

Unfortunately, it seems to be the "bad" guys :(. Georgia (after being provoked by Russian interests within its borders) launched i...

I must admit I was being a little tricksy with my previous ten-year plan entry. I had a ten year plan already and I was waiting for the righ...

I've started yet another miniblog for links to my fathers current project of pictures, film and book of his hunting adventures. Hunting ...

ANU Professor Dayal Wickramasinghe tells 666 presenter Ross Solly life could be everywhere in space. Wish I could find the transcript

Back in 1992 I was playing a round of golf with "The Groose" and Andrewww. I asked them where they wanted to be in ten years time....

Still doing more Comments on Economist.com than my usual blog sphere of reading. Subjects of interest include: China Iraq green taxes super...

In response to Dr.Clam's suggestion to eat more whale This should really be a real ad for the real product that ought to be offered in A...

There are numerous "experts" talking up the price of oil. Like at the end of the Dot.com boom, I believe this is a technique to gi...

Clam's narrative in italics Let us begin with the way the world was twenty-five years ago. It was in the last years of a titanic struggl...