Barry White - eat your heart out.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Reply to Heartbreaking denialism by Joshua Gans
Reply to Heartbreaking denialism by Joshua Gans via 1petermartin: Sharing... They are environment haters; pure and simple - Gans http://bit.ly/87pLXy
But don't you see? It's the extra layer of government, and the extra taxes (although they'll happily spruik for their constituencies and special interests to get tax payer funded "compensation"), and the jobs that will be lost, and the end of the economy as we know it.
What I wonder is, how is it then that the European Union, which has arguably had an even more flawed ETS for 6 years now, seems to be surviving?Including in Germany alone, the directly attributable creation of 230, 000 plus jobs in the renewable energy industries (R&D, manufacture, sales - domestic and international, and installation of wind, solar, biomass, tidal technologies), and creation of an additional, invaulable income stream to (especially) farmers, from energy production.
You know, from all those solar panals and wind turbines they've planted in the paddocks where the livestock graze.Good grief. Who knew? The sun shines and the wind blows and the tide goes in and out in Europe!
And they're (SHOCK! HORROR!) progressively decommissioning nuclear power stations, as more renewable energy sources come on line.Oh well, guess we should just get used to a nice balance of trade deficit with the Euro zone over the next few years, importing technology and know-how, what with having sold off, closed down and driven out most of our world class renewables R&D technologies and intellectuals, to everywhere else during the last two federal administrations.
Like King Canute trying to hold back the tide, this is (I hope!) their last hurrah. Just as the GST became the inevitable "tax reform" we had to have, so will the ETS and/or carbon tax be part of the new reality of the carbon constrained and oil depleted future of the Australian and global economy.
The sooner we all face this fact, regardless of our belief, the sooner we can start getting results.
Links:Monday, 2 November 2009
Twitter Apps - Seesmic and echofon
I currently have 3 twitter apps on my desktop: echofon (a Firefox add-on) which is great - simple and effective if you're into the "twitterstream" and not too worried about missing anything, while still providing effective monitoring of your followings tweets, RTs and DMs ; TweetDeck, which I'm currently using to manage my twitter identities to follow groups/cohorts of tweets; and now I'm also trying out Seesmic Desktop.
Originally released as "Twhirl", I've been using Seesmic Desktop application for a couple of weeks, and think it will be great for "intermediate" users who may have a couple of Twitter identities, but who don't need the "power user" features that TweetDeck provides, to manage multiple social media service accounts at Twitter, Myspace and Facebook.
And the folks over at Seesmic seem very proactive regarding user ideas and feedback. (They also have an iPhone app and Web In-broswer service on the go).
Most of the ideas I'd like for Seesmic Desktop, that aren't already included, are under consideration; like upload and random schedule of multiple tweets (Oh - yes please!), UI customisation and a few other minor features (like repeat/recently used #hashtags).
My favourite feature so far, is the "sent' column, where all of my twitter accounts most recent tweets and DMs appear. Great if you don't use DM a lot, but tweet heaps, and want to keep track of your more recent tweets at a glance. Least favourite; getting followers who don't tweet much onto custom userlists. It's a bit cumbersome at the moment, but looks like they're working on it.
Only potential downside I see, is inclusion of too many suggestions/requests, and bogging it down too much.
But overall, pretty happy so far. So if you're looking for a new desktop Twitter app that can manange your multiple Twitter IDs and (presumably) Facebook accounts, then check out Seesmic Desktop.
Originally released as "Twhirl", I've been using Seesmic Desktop application for a couple of weeks, and think it will be great for "intermediate" users who may have a couple of Twitter identities, but who don't need the "power user" features that TweetDeck provides, to manage multiple social media service accounts at Twitter, Myspace and Facebook.
And the folks over at Seesmic seem very proactive regarding user ideas and feedback. (They also have an iPhone app and Web In-broswer service on the go).
Most of the ideas I'd like for Seesmic Desktop, that aren't already included, are under consideration; like upload and random schedule of multiple tweets (Oh - yes please!), UI customisation and a few other minor features (like repeat/recently used #hashtags).
My favourite feature so far, is the "sent' column, where all of my twitter accounts most recent tweets and DMs appear. Great if you don't use DM a lot, but tweet heaps, and want to keep track of your more recent tweets at a glance. Least favourite; getting followers who don't tweet much onto custom userlists. It's a bit cumbersome at the moment, but looks like they're working on it.
Only potential downside I see, is inclusion of too many suggestions/requests, and bogging it down too much.
But overall, pretty happy so far. So if you're looking for a new desktop Twitter app that can manange your multiple Twitter IDs and (presumably) Facebook accounts, then check out Seesmic Desktop.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Affirm Humanity - Habitat for Humanity
Affirm Humanity - Habitat for Humanity
1.6 billion people around the world live in substandard housing.
Join with Habitat for Humanity (YouTube channel) as we build a new world.
1.6 billion people around the world live in substandard housing.
Join with Habitat for Humanity (YouTube channel) as we build a new world.
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