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 2025-10-08 Suicidal Empathy | Blog Entry | We need empathy, but not suicidal empa... |
| 2025-10-03 Terrorism vs Genocide | Blog Entry | Please don't feel like you need to be ... |
| 2025-09-24 Sheeple | Blog Entry | Are they succumbing to fake news, misi... |
 2025-09-15 Peak Fascism | Blog Entry | Just so you know: assassinating people... |
| 2025-09-09 Kiwi Values | Blog Entry | From a practical perspective it has to... |
| 2025-08-30 Problematic Ideas | Blog Entry | Some people will read this and think, ... |
| 2025-08-23 What They Got Right | Blog Entry | I think it is important to acknowledge... |
| 2025-08-07 What is Anything? | Blog Entry | Use language in an honest way to commu... |
| 2025-07-29 This is War! | Blog Entry | I think it is a surface indicator of a... |
| 2025-07-22 A Different View | Blog Entry | People whose ideas differ aren't bad, ... |
| 2025-07-18 Too Many Road Cones | Blog Entry | I think it is clear, there are too man... |
| 2025-07-08 Value Autonomy | Blog Entry | We need to value autonomy.... |
| 2025-07-02 More Than Average | Blog Entry | It's a worthwhile aim though: knowing ... |
| 2025-06-28 An Empathy Deficit | Blog Entry | They end up reducing the total empathy... |
| 2025-06-23 No More Nukes | Blog Entry | I can make an argument both ways about... |
| 2025-06-11 Greta and the Omincause | Blog Entry | I'm sure she will find some other tren... |
| 2025-05-31 Respect the Flag | Blog Entry | Find me a Maori flag and I will burn i... |
| 2025-05-26 Our AI Overlords | Blog Entry | Some say the future looks bleak, but I... |
| 2025-05-02 What is Morality? | Blog Entry | I still think I'm right: morality is j... |
| 2025-04-24 Go Winston! | Blog Entry | If a politician want's to empower the ... |
| 2025-04-02 Bubbles | Blog Entry | A major issue we have today is delusio... |
| 2025-03-24 More Newspeak | Blog Entry | If you see these words, there is a cha... |
| 2025-03-20 Celebrating Brilliance | Blog Entry | It's time to get back to celebrating b... |
| 2025-03-13 Embarrassing Nonsense | Blog Entry | That might get the message across that... |
| 2025-02-27 Things Are Better | Blog Entry | You will see things are better than wh... |
| 2025-02-11 We Need Trump and Musk | Blog Entry | I wonder if Trump and Musk might like ... |
| 2025-01-30 Pragmatic Libertarianism | Blog Entry | Freedom is important. Maybe it's all t... |
| 2025-01-24 Not a Nazi | Blog Entry | There is one thing they cannot cope wi... |
| 2025-01-09 Between the Extremes | Blog Entry | Maybe we are just doomed to alternate ... |
| 2024-12-04 Avoid Microsoft | Blog Entry | If you don't really like computers muc... |
| 2024-11-28 Learning From Failure | Blog Entry | I think there is a place for parties w... |
| 2024-11-18 Unity Through Division | Blog Entry | Sometimes hard decisions need to be ma... |
| 2024-11-11 So Unaware | Blog Entry | You can make you own choice, but be aw... |
| 2024-10-31 Chuck | Blog Entry | He was arguably the most famous pilot ... |
| 2024-10-14 Nice Versus True | Blog Entry | Are nice fantasies better than hard tr... |
| 2024-10-04 But is it Science? | Blog Entry | Ask yourself this: is it really scienc... |
| 2024-08-22 Stirring Up Trouble | Blog Entry | Let's just get every view out there an... |
| 2024-08-12 The Messenger | Blog Entry | It's not the internet's fault. Don't b... |
| 2024-08-05 Advice to Police | Blog Entry | Stop playing politics and get on with ... |
| 2024-07-24 Sack Them All | Blog Entry | Let's find all the corrupt and incompe... |
| 2024-07-12 No Perfect Solutions | Blog Entry | After all, there are no perfect soluti... |
 2024-07-01 The Right Priorities | Blog Entry | Seems like we have the right prioritie... |
| 2024-06-19 The Overton Window | Blog Entry | Don't be too concerned if your opinion... |
| 2024-04-30 The Fall of Rome | Blog Entry | I'm afraid that we really might be see... |
| 2024-04-29 Who's in Control? | Blog Entry | The big conspiracies I mentioned here ... |
| 2024-04-24 Ask a Comedian | Blog Entry | You want genuinely innovative ideas? J... |
| 2024-04-04 Warbirds 2024 | Blog Entry | I have many random interests, several ... |
| 2024-03-30 More Unpopular Opinions | Blog Entry | Remember, they're just opinions, which... |
| 2024-03-27 DEI Must Die | Blog Entry | People get to do what they are natural... |
 2024-03-21 Which River? | Blog Entry | What choice did Israel really have?... |
| 2024-03-14 More is Less | Blog Entry | Maybe more unemployment could be a goo... |
| 2024-03-06 Free Speech Equity | Blog Entry | Actually no, free speech is too import... |
| 2024-03-04 A Bad Look | Blog Entry | It might be legal. It might be practic... |
| 2024-02-16 Die TVNZ Die | Blog Entry | Truly a incompetent and corrupt failed... |
| 2024-02-05 Just Mostly Useless | Blog Entry | I'm not saying education is completely... |
| 2024-02-01 More Maori BS | Blog Entry | One thing we don't need is more Maori ... |
| 2024-01-20 Decolonise Aotearoa? | Blog Entry | Decolonise Aotearoa? Yeah, right!... |
| 2024-01-09 A Big Ask for Some | Blog Entry | Create a theory, test it, revise it, r... |
| 2024-01-04 Forty Years of Mac | Blog Entry | I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 ... |
| 2023-11-24 No Solutions | Blog Entry | There are no solutions, just trade-off... |
| 2023-11-08 All Created Equal | Blog Entry | If they are free, they are not equal. ... |
| 2023-11-01 To Boldly Go | Blog Entry | He goes boldy into the future. We need... |
| 2023-10-21 Pro Max | Blog Entry | I usually buy myself one new major gad... |
| 2023-10-12 Not Morally Equal | Blog Entry | The two sides are not morally equal.... |
| 2023-09-23 Climate Change BS | Blog Entry | It's time for a better approach, and t... |
| 2023-09-14 Scared to be Individuals | Blog Entry | I think far too many people are scared... |
| 2023-07-04 The Problem With AI | Blog Entry | The AI replied "I'm sorry, Bob, I'm af... |
| 2023-06-16 OJB's Laws | Blog Entry | Everything that is wrong with the worl... |
| 2023-04-04 Just Admit You're Wrong | Blog Entry | Don't apologise; just admit you're wro... |
| 2023-01-16 Postmodernist Insanity | Blog Entry | All ideas, especially incredibly stupi... |
| 2022-11-15 Exactly the Wrong Thing | Blog Entry | Right now we are doing exactly the wro... |
| 2022-11-02 Unsubtle Propaganda | Blog Entry | Free speech is the most basic necessit... |
| 2022-09-01 Why Go to Space? | Blog Entry | The only regret I have is that we don'... |
| 2022-06-11 Misinformation Everywhere | Blog Entry | Forget about the words misinformation,... |
| 2022-04-22 Let Musk Fix It | Blog Entry | Fixing free speech isn't easy, but it ... |
| 2022-02-16 Listen to the Crazies | Blog Entry | Ardern isn't a real leader, and neithe... |
| 2022-01-02 Some Interesting Facts | Blog Entry | Anyway, there's a few interesting fact... |
| 2021-12-06 The Gates Module | Blog Entry | Could you send me a Mac please. I need... |
| 2021-09-28 The Rules of Bureaucracy | Blog Entry | The problem is the basis of power, per... |
| 2021-08-17 The Blame Game | Blog Entry | Ascribing a single cause to a complex ... |
| 2021-08-05 A Real Catch 22 | Blog Entry | Those who could do the job better don'... |
| 2021-07-05 A Team Player | Blog Entry | Teamwork has its place, but it is high... |
| 2021-06-02 Nineteen Eighty-Four | Blog Entry | It's not a happy book. I hope real lif... |
| 2021-05-06 Apple Bugs | Blog Entry | I don't expect any system to be perfec... |
| 2021-03-25 What Could Go Wrong? | Blog Entry | The last vestiges of human civilisatio... |
| 2021-01-31 Twas Ever Thus | Blog Entry | Sounds like things haven't changed muc... |
| 2020-11-18 Culture Wars | Blog Entry | Whatever faults Western culture has, i... |
| 2020-11-06 Vincit Veritas | Blog Entry | There is almost always a choice betwee... |
| 2020-06-25 All Lives Matter | Blog Entry | The whole narrative the BLM movement i... |
| 2020-06-17 Skunk Works | Blog Entry | The word skunk works doesn't sound lik... |
| 2020-06-08 The Lying Media | Blog Entry | The problem is the lying media.... |
| 2020-02-11 A Work of Art | Blog Entry | It is something which is just an aweso... |
| 2020-02-03 No One Expects the Leftist | Blog Entry | The left are the new religious fanatic... |
| 2020-01-06 Movies and TV Suck | Blog Entry | We should just leave some time for doi... |
| 2019-10-08 Not Guilty | Blog Post | The native people though? Maybe they h... |
| 2019-10-04 St George in Retirement | Blog Post | St George really should give up and fi... |
| 2019-09-20 A Matter of Faith | Blog Post | Suddenly he wasn't so convinced that h... |
| 2019-09-13 Casual Racism is OK | Blog Post | Enemies though? No, we don't make joke... |
| 2019-07-26 Software Problems | Blog Entry | It could be a win for everyone, especi... |
| 2019-07-17 A Good Day | Blog Entry | Does anyone's life really run as smoot... |
| 2019-05-27 Idiotic and Dangerous | Blog Entry | Some people have, what is in my opinio... |
| 2019-05-22 Far-Left Fantasy Land | Blog Entry | They need to bring their extremist ide... |
| 2019-05-05 Adventures of a Work Unit | Blog Post | It had not been one of her better days... |
| 2019-03-28 A Free Speech Rant | Blog Post | I just hope those who seek to deny our... |
| 2019-03-14 Not Trolling | Blog Entry | I like to stir up trouble sometimes, e... |
| 2019-02-06 The World is Better | Blog Entry | The world really is a lot better than ... |
| 2019-01-31 Why? Why? Why? | Blog Entry | Unless you're a kid, try to avoid why?... |
| 2018-12-20 Nothing Trivial | Blog Entry | A significant number of students didn'... |
| 2018-12-19 If Chimps Had Nukes | Blog Entry | Just imagine what the world would be l... |
| 2018-12-17 Angels Dancing | Blog Entry | Then we get the "angels dancing on the... |
| 2018-12-10 Backward Steps | Blog Entry | I'm sick of bad design, but I might as... |
| 2018-12-04 Horrific Deceit | Blog Entry | Capitalism in general can be horrifica... |
| 2018-11-29 Concept Creep and Escalatio | Blog Entry | When you are aware of these processes ... |
| 2018-11-25 Speaking in Catchphrases | Blog Entry | I guess "that's the work of the devil"... |
| 2018-11-09 The Folly of Human Conceits | Blog Entry | There is perhaps no better demonstrati... |
| 2018-10-24 The Secrets to My Success | Blog Entry | I actually care about making my client... |
| 2018-10-20 Arrogance and Ignorance | Blog Entry | Whatever we do, we must eliminate that... |
| 2018-10-18 A Virtual World | Blog Entry | Living in a VR might be the great equa... |
| 2018-09-24 Thank You, Serena | Blog Entry | In conclusion I say "thank you, Serena... |
| 2018-05-14 Facebook is Watching You! | Blog Entry | I know Facebook is spying on me, and o... |
| 2018-05-01 Jesus Says "Me Too" | Blog Entry | What a world we live in. A serious aca... |
| 2018-04-29 Goddamn Sucks! | Blog Entry | Goldman Sachs should have no place in ... |
| 2018-04-26 Free Will Again | Blog Entry | I'm still no closer to finding a final... |
| 2018-04-19 Maoris and Gays | Blog Entry | Political correctness is not as widely... |
| 2018-03-21 Jobs, Hitchens, Hawking | Blog Entry | Is it normal to feel a real sense of l... |
| 2018-02-24 West is Best | Blog Entry | It seems to me that the conclusion is ... |
| 2018-02-19 Join the Mansplainers | Blog Entry | Join the mansplainers, because the tru... |
| 2018-02-10 No More -isms | Blog Entry | If you currently follow feminism, plea... |
| 2018-02-05 Utopia or Dystopia? | Blog Entry | Will it be a utopia or a dystopia? No ... |
| 2018-01-30 Fake News | Blog Entry | How can I criticise biased radio shows... |
| 2017-12-15 Management of Change | Blog Entry | It is the duty of every worker to prot... |
| 2017-12-13 Racist Misogynist Xenophobe | Blog Entry | Apparently, according to some people, ... |
| 2017-11-30 Cosmological Musings | Blog Entry | Obviously we don't know the truth abou... |
| 2017-11-27 Genesis Version 2.0 | Blog Entry | He seems to live in his office upstair... |
| 2017-11-19 Good or Bad | Blog Entry | So, in summary, religion in schools. G... |
| 2017-11-08 Is This Paradise? | Blog Entry | As I have said in past blog posts: bri... |
| 2017-11-01 Revolting and Primitive | Blog Entry | I like to get involved with controvers... |
| 2017-10-26 Nostradamus | Web Page | Did his writing really predict the fut... |
| 2017-10-25 The Bermuda Triangle | Web Page | Is there really anything mysterious ab... |
| 2017-10-24 The Shroud of Turin | Web Page | Is the Shroud of Turin genuine?... |
| 2017-10-16 Child or Picasso? | Blog Entry | No philosophical system can really ans... |
| 2017-10-11 Too Much of a Good Thing | Blog Entry | Do what you think is right, but avoid ... |
| 2017-10-04 Some More Quotes | Blog Entry | That truth is that religion is just im... |
| 2017-09-22 The Least Bad | Blog Entry | It's rather unfortunate that our curre... |
| 2017-09-18 Facts, Logic, Morality | Blog Entry | I have created a three step process wh... |
| 2017-09-03 The Hard Problem | Blog Entry | Maybe all of this stuff is "not even w... |
| 2017-08-28 Captain's Log | Blog Entry | The unthinkable has happened. Our land... |
| 2017-08-02 Waking Up | Blog Entry | Unlike most of my opponents I can just... |
| 2017-07-25 1K of RAM | Blog Entry | One of my first computers had just 1K ... |
| 2017-06-28 Making Us Smart | Blog Entry | The internet will make you really smar... |
 2017-05-23 A Ticket to Heaven | Blog Entry | We don't get a ticket to heaven throug... |
| 2016-11-24 Hate Speech | Blog Entry | Is censorship of controversial speech ... |
| 2016-10-19 No Answers | Blog Entry | There's no reason to think that all qu... |
| 2016-10-15 Pointless Jobs | Blog Entry | I recently read an opinion piece on th... |
| 2016-10-05 A Real Prisoners Dilemma | Blog Entry | Each individual making the most ration... |
| 2016-08-20 Zappa | Blog Entry | Ain't it bleak when you've got so much... |
| 2016-07-09 I Demand My Moon Base | Blog Entry | A Moon base could be built for less th... |
| 2016-06-04 Pointless, Unproductive, Un | Blog Entry | We must dispense with everything that ... |
| 2016-05-19 Abandon Ship | Blog Entry | So the ship sails on, sinking lower in... |
| 2016-05-18 Behavioral Economics | Blog Entry | It seemed to me that economics is base... |
| 2016-05-07 Bordering on Impossible | Blog Entry | A good phrase to describe the staggeri... |
| 2016-03-16 Sadness and Beauty | Blog Entry | Just beauty will be left, but some sad... |
| 2016-03-14 Policy Schmolicy | Blog Entry | All I can say is "rules shmules" and "... |
| 2016-01-25 The Latest PC BS | Blog Entry | I'm sick of dissenting opinions not be... |
| 2015-11-19 The Morality of Machines | Blog Entry | I get back to the old free will questi... |
| 2015-11-04 The Enigma | Blog Entry | If it's hard to build a computer and h... |
| 2015-10-23 But is it Science? | Blog Entry | Let's pursue these ideas for their own... |
| 2015-10-21 Fantastic Feynman | Blog Entry | I think I can safely say that nobody u... |
| 2015-09-21 Insulting Sir Pita | Blog Entry | In general, being too precious about y... |
| 2015-08-08 Do These Make Sense? | Blog Entry | Do we criticise science the way it sho... |
| 2015-05-10 Dilbert | Blog Entry | It might seem that if the workplace is... |
| 2015-05-04 More BS News | Blog Entry | So things don't look good for New Zeal... |
| 2015-02-06 Our Silicon Overlords | Blog Entry | Machines are better than us at doing m... |
| 2014-10-29 A Brief Blip | Blog Entry | This all could be idle speculation and... |
| 2014-08-29 Science and Art | Blog Entry | My loyal readers might have noticed th... |
| 2014-07-19 Not Even Wrong | Blog Entry | Some people think that creationism has... |
| 2014-06-23 Pastafarian Infidels | Blog Entry | Now you know why us atheists all love ... |
| 2014-04-25 The Libertarian Dream | Blog Entry | There is no such thing as a lousy job ... |
| 2014-02-19 All My Macs | Blog Entry | Ah yes, those were the days when progr... |
| 2013-12-19 Evidence For a Multiverse | Blog Entry | A multiverse theory can answer many qu... |
| 2013-11-27 Law vs Morality | Blog Entry | What is legal and what is morally righ... |
| 2013-11-23 Science Isn't the Enemy | Blog Entry | Astronomers shouldn't take the lack of... |
| 2013-11-21 A Dinosaur Theme Park | Blog Entry | What's the difference between IBM and ... |
| 2013-10-16 Inspiring Leaders | Blog Entry | I do my own thing and I don't really w... |
| 2013-10-13 Nothing's Too Hard | Blog Entry | It's not my job to fix it - but how ha... |
| 2013-09-27 A Modest Proposal | Blog Entry | So maybe the answer is that all electo... |
| 2013-07-11 They Got It Wrong | Blog Entry | Consider two technologies such as flyi... |
| 2013-05-08 Users Losers? | Blog Entry | Computers can be bizarre and difficult... |
| 2013-04-22 Two Complete Morons | Blog Entry | In the case of these two people, only ... |
| 2013-03-13 When the Revolution Comes | Blog Entry | They'll be the first against the wall ... |
| 2013-03-05 Some Philosophical Thoughts | Blog Entry | We can never know anything for certain... |
| 2013-01-30 Favourite Things 3 Part 2 | Blog Entry | The HST has been great value for money... |
| 2013-01-25 Favourite Things 3 | Blog Entry | Some of Hubble's work was best describ... |
| 2013-01-10 Favourite Things 2 | Blog Entry | The iPhone is an extraordinary device ... |
| 2012-12-10 Favourite Things 1 | Blog Entry | We need more of this sort of thing and... |
| 2012-12-06 Have a Cigarette | Blog Entry | The next time I hear anyone denying po... |
| 2012-04-27 Its Five Day Mission | Blog Entry | This version of the story is authorise... |
| 2011-03-14 Predicting Earthquakes | Web Page | Predicting Earthquakes (and the Weathe... |
| 2011-03-03 Dawkins vs God | Blog Entry | Do you believe in Richard Dawkins? If ... |
| 2011-02-16 Cosmic Jewish Zombie | Blog Entry | A cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own... |
| 2010-11-29 Intellectual Ghettos | Blog Entry | It's tempting just to let people live ... |
| 2010-09-20 This Much I Know | Blog Entry | By all means sit cross-legged on top o... |
| 2009-11-18 Inspirational | Blog Entry | This sums it all up for true science f... |
| 2008-02-20 The God Delusion | Blog Entries | I recently finished reading Richard Da... |
| 2007-08-20 Jesus Jesus Jesus | Blog Entry | Its a particularly sick form of self-f... |
| 2007-05-21 Sublime Ignorance | Blog Entry | I was involved with two debates this w... |
| 2007-05-05 Degree of Faith | Blog Entry | Science or atheism aren't religions ju... |
| 2007-03-20 What Planet? | Blog Entry | I always wait for the other person to ... |
| 2007-03-12 Aaaiiieeee! | Blog Entry | I can just hear the anguished screams ... |
| 2007-02-22 Planning | Blog Entry | A comment about the pride and smug sup... |
| 2007-02-22 Apple Pride | Blog Entry | Maybe I'll just sit there and enjoy th... |
| 2007-01-22 Einsteinian Religion | Blog Entry | Sometimes listening to pseudo-scientis... |
| 2007-01-15 Lusers | Blog Entry | Sometimes listening to pseudo-scientis... |
| 2006-11-03 Like Watching a Car Wreck | Blog Entry | Sometimes listening to pseudo-scientis... |
| 2006-11-02 The Google | Blog Entry | What standards of knowledge should we ... |
| 2006-09-06 Moon Hoax | Web Page | Were the Apollo missions of the late 6... |
| 2006-09-04 Evidence for the Big Bang | Web Page | Why do we think the Big Bang is a good... |
| 2006-05-30 Chicken or Egg | Blog Entry | What came first, the chicken or the eg... |
| 2006-05-19 Just Dumb | Blog Entry | Its just dumb to still believe somethi... |
| 2006-05-08 No UFOs | Blog Entry | UFOs do exist, but they aren't alien v... |
| 2006-05-04 Progress at Last | Blog Entry | Maybe we will finally have some progre... |
| 2006-04-21 Warbirds 2006 | Blog Entry | The Warbirds Over Wanaka Air Show 2006... |
| 2006-03-30 Hubble | Blog Entry | Edwin Hubble could have been a rich la... |
| 2006-02-28 Cameras | Web Page | Some comments and observations concern... |
| 2006-02-24 Omega Centauri | Web Page | Observing notes on the globular cluste... |
| 2006-02-24 Contrast and Brightness | Web Page | How to use Photoshop to improve contra... |
| 2006-01-30 One Good Run | Blog Entry | One Good Run: the Legend of Burt Munro... |
| 2006-01-24 Lies and Creationism | Blog Entry | Are most Creationists ignorant, delude... |
| 2005-10-21 Religious Cowards | Blog Entry | Is agnosticism just another name for c... |
| 2005-10-14 IBM | Blog Entry | Its the 60th anniversary of the origin... |
| 2005-08-16 Apple Notes | Blog Entry | A couple of comments on recent news fr... |
| 2005-07-21 Truth | Blog Entry | Some people have a warped idea of what... |
| 2005-06-16 Bible in Schools | Blog Entry | Should religious groups be able to run... |
| 2005-06-15 Mac OS X Speed | Web Page | What you can do to make Mac OS X run a... |
| 2005-05-23 Alien Life | Blog Entry | Why have we never found alien life in ... |
| 2005-05-19 My Favourite Music | Web Page | Have a listen to some of my favourite ... |
| 2005-05-16 Rally Shift | Web Page | Rally Shift is a cool rally racing gam... |
| 2005-05-06 Progress | Blog Entry | Where is the real progress in computer... |
| 2005-04-13 Microsoft Avoidance | Blog Entry | How to avoid using Microsoft programs,... |
| 2005-04-01 Databases | Blog Entry | Some thoughts on recent database devel... |
| 2005-03-09 Big Bang | Blog Entry | Some thoughts on the Big Bang theory a... |
| 2005-02-17 Einstein | Blog Entry | Its one hundred years since Einstein's... |
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