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What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry. Why
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There is a an interesting take on US politics on a site (of the Democratic persuasion one might imagine ;) It seems the Democrats are so busy being cross that they cannot focus on getting some policies that sufficient Americans will vote for (much like our own Labor Party here in
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This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia's *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the 'old fashioned' philosophers (called "Trad & Mod Philosophy", i.e. the logicians), and the 'modern' philosophers (called
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Someone recently quoted Winston Churchill as saying "If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain." So decided to check the 'trusty'
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I have been reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and other writings (ISBN: 0140390529) and his writings do stand well the test of time, as well as being quite entertaining to read. Towards the end of this book, amongst his miscellaneous writings, is an interesting one from a letter to
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This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising terrible acts because they were only following orders. Thus they could abrogate individual responsibility to act in humane ways. We
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The World Today - Educator claims critical thought stifled in our schools: ABC Radio, The World Today, Wed, 9-Feb-2005, Reporter: David Mark In the Spring edition of The Journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English Associate Professor Wayne Sawyer, from the University of Western Sydney, asked whether
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I've just come out of hospital where I spent 7 days after major abdominal surgery. The surgeon and the hospital were fantastic! We are very lucky here in Australia with our health system. But it is worth noting that I was an insured patient in a private hospital
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Update 2016: This link is no longer available but you can find a handy how-to guide to setting up a blog here - thanks to Chris for the link. An interesting idea from http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php, reproduced in full as it is good food for thought.
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His Holiness Pope John Paul II and I have disagreed on many issues over many years (e.g. birth control, ordination of women, homosexuality, etc). However, there are many elements of his message for this World Day of Peace with which I do agree. But this message also raises some
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Paranoia - The Conspiracy Reader: "Since 1992 Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader has enlightened readers with alternative views and marginalized theories of the inner workings behind sociopolitical events." This is one of my favourite rainy day with nothing to do sites to visit. Although, if you really are paranoid
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Junkscience.com - this site is fun to peruse from time to time. It takes Junk science, which is defined as "faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special and, often, hidden agendas" and debunks the the theories. Heaven knows we need this sort of help with