It's a big day tomorrow and the last of the endorsements for the next President of the USA are coming in. While I have some fairly good ideas of who I'd like to see installed in the White House it's not really my place to say. It's a rather fundamental …

The relentless news coverage of the collapse of capitalism gets a bit wearing at the time. Sometimes it's hard to keep a sense of perspective with other things going on. One piece of good news was 45 days getting shelved for the meantime. The government had to cock up a …

I haven't commented much on the US election recently. It after all the democratic process in a sovereign country which is quite capable of making it's own decisions about who represents it. Of course given the USA's influence on the rest of the world it's understandable that we do take …

I've been spending quite a lot of idle cycles on Facebook with the rather fun Nations game. My nation now scores very highly in social freedom, education, technology and pretty much every other meaningful statistic. This is not surprising as I've consistently gone with pro-education, pro-choice decisions and a marked …

I'll stick to the geek topics in Chairman Brown's speech to conference yesterday. The issue of broadband poverty is a uniquely western problem in an age where we have mostly* solved the problems of feeding, housing and medical care for the population. However as more and more things become available …