Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has been relected. chriscurnow.com commentary at chriscurnow.com/Politics. Bleeding Edge, as usual, has some insightful comments.
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That dress
Chriscurnow.com is a serious blog. Certainly we don’t mind the odd bit of humour but in general we like to relate it to somewhat meaty issues. We tried to have a serious dicussion about the issues around the kind of dresses worn by persons of the opposite…
Blogging & personal crises
What is it about blogging and personal crises. We notice that Bleeding Edge was constrained by a personal crisis a while back. Now chriscurnow.com has been struck by one. Not the worst personal crisis we have suffered in our lives, but stressful and time consuming…
Oz Bloggers’ Conference
Bleeding Edge points out that Mark Stanic is running a survey on who would like to attend an Australian conference on Blogging. I think it would be a great idea. Some of the topics I would like to discuss with others include: What drive us to do it? (My #1 topic by…
Who is demeaned by flashes of flesh?
Andrew Bolt normally makes my blood boil. He’s probably Melbourne’s most right wing columnist. I’m never quite sure how much he believes what he writes or whether he just likes baiting those of us on the left. So I was surprised to find myself…
Life changing books
Scribblingwoman started me on this train of thought. Several trains of thought actually. Scribblingwoman points to a
Are Women ‘accessories’ to men’s sport?
According to Melbourne ABC talkback host Jon Faine we’re finishing the AFL season where we started with an emphasis on treating women as sex objects. This is Grand Final week in Melbourne. The week of weeks for the season in the home of the AFL. The city goes…
More on Breasts – what men really think
The Breast Book Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta I was walking along the beach one day during my January holiday earlier this year. I like to walk from one end of the beach to the other each day. The forty minutes it takes is good thinking and relaxing time….
Google – the Oakland As of IPOs
By all accounts, Google’s recent IPO was hugely successful (eg see Surowiecki on the Google IPO). But Google made one big mistake, at least in the eyes of the big investment banks – it didn’t bring in one of the big investments banks to manage the…