OddThinking

Last Thursday, the Australian Treasurer, Peter Costello, made a speech, titled “Worth Promoting, Worth Defending: Australian Citizenship, what it means and how to nurture it.” I found the speech to be disappointing and mildly terrifying.

The thesis of the speech is that immigrants who come to Australia and become citizens should be sure to adopt Australian beliefs and values. If they don’t (and they are still citizens of another nation) they should have their Australian citizenship revoked.

I think there were several flaws in his argument, and I am annoyed enough to want to address them here.

Yes, as it happens, I am a bit grumpy today. So what?! You want to make something of it!

There’s a new branch of the Bendigo Bank nearby. I don’t want to move my accounts, holus-bolus, until they have proven themselves. This post is an ongoing thread to remind myself of the experiences I have with a Beta Test of the bank over the next three months or so, so I can decide whether it is worth the pain of the full transition.

I have noticed my latest favourite word is “conflating“.

An implementation of a Kakuro Solver.

It’s interesting how memory works and the way we observe things. It’s particularly interesting how memory fails to work, and we don’t notice it.

The manager in charge of the test team was gossiping to me one day about the pain involved in running a stability test.

CSS Principles For the last twelve months, I have been trying to toe the party line when it comes to Cascading Style Sheets. Tables are our enemies. Div and span are allies and friends. Content shall never be mixed with formatting. Animals shall never sleep in beds. Err.. sorry, got distracted. Where was I? I […]

I’ve updated my blogging software.