The Breast Blog

Regular readers of chriscurnow.com will know that one of our goals is to support greater mutual understanding between men and women (and peoples of all kinds, races and backgrounds for that matter.) I have recently come across The Breast Blog – an enterprise of...

Go away spammers

A by-product of the upgrade to the new server was opening chriscurnow.com up to trackback spammers. Oh dear, I was getting 20 – 30 a day. Moveable Type v3 certainly makes it easier to delete trackback spam but it doesn’t stop it from getting through. When...

Photo Album is back up

The Photo Album is back up after the upgrade to the new server. It only took me two weeks (or was it three.) It actually only took a couple of hours of actual time. I didn’t want to reload all the photos, so a lot of time was spent in UNIX, looking around to see...

How Wrong Can you be?

We all know that statistical analysis is used to prove all sorts of things This article [subscription required] in the April 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review discusses the perils of benchmarking. chriscurnow.com has long disliked the notion of benchmarking. We...

Competition vs Excellence in Schools

One of my favourite commentators is back on his hobby horse again this morning. I am referring to Dr Kevin Donnelly’s piece Give academic excellence in state schools a sporting chance in The Age this morning. Dr Donnelly opines that “Competition and...