Marco's Blog

I am so proud of my 7 year old son. He is learning about space at the moment and, jokingly, his teacher aide has been threatening to send hi...

There is no way around it - Facebook is a poor substitute for just saying what I want to say about whatever is on my mind (without distracti...

For probably months now, our family-Easter-Tasmania road trip (+band contest) has been my main focus. It culminated in trying to squeeze a f...

Things that I wanted to post about but haven't found the time: - I have been following with interest where the water ends up from the ma...

I have thought about this long and hard, but the development that the Higher education system (including private universities) is being tran...

SA: Hey; Nice flood, Newy*. Can we have some of that? NSW: Get your beady eyes off it Southa**. That's OUR flood. Get your own flood! We...

I find it a commonly occuring theme that people blame themselves for not speaking up when a friend or relative acts in a way that is obvious...

A few years back I read about an interesting idea to tackle people smugglers. Rather than deterrence, the idea was to actively compete with ...

This was a motto pasted on our Computer Science tutors' computer back at uni. It is also the sentiment in some of the chapters of Superf...

Funny how bad turning points make us forget good ones. German Media almost exclusively used Schicksalstag 9/11 as their day of fate in 1989....

My recent ideas on Climate Change have been challenged from two different directions. A Superfreakonomics chapter championing geo-engineeri...

Article about the falling US $, and our exceptional acceptance of such leads me to believe that the OZ may actually be a good candidate for...

...commenting on recent political developments regarding ... Afghanistan. If the West can live with one nuclear Islamist state (Iran), surel...

Another thought that had been going through my head in all that time that I wasn't blogging was regarding a vision I had of the future. ...

There are really not enough of these in the world. Consider these situations: 1) Person who is on a phone plan does not have a direct cost f...

Have had a few different ideas on what to blog on, but no time to knuckle down and actually do it. * - Putting forth an argument as to why a...

My current global warming/climate change opinion can be summed up as the opposite of what I had summed up previously as my opinion, although...

Early this year I met my daughter's Maths teacher at the normal grade 11 parent-teacher meeting (with my daughter). I remember the meeti...

Occam's Razor states that "entities should not be multiplied uneccessarily".When competing hypotheses are equal in other respe...

Rather than review this book formally, now that I've read it, I'll just ramble on various thoughts I have until they become coherent...