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Since everyone else seems to be blogging about the election, I might as well jump on the bandwagon as well.
While I was watching a McCain-Palin interview on the New York Times website, it happened to freeze right at this moment:
If you use your imagination a little, that’s how McCain might look like if he were to suffer a slight mishap while driving.
In any case, nointrigue.com for Obama! For all it’s worth, given I don’t actually have a vote…
Tags: barack obama, john mccain, nytimes, politics
So we have a new Premier. But Joe I’m-very-popular Tripodi and Eric Let’s-build-some-more-roads Roozendaal are still there. And I’m very confident the new Premier is just going to pull $10 billion out of his rear end to build the metro now that the power sell-off has fizzled. Sigh. Update: Miraculously, they’re now Finance Minister and Treasurer respectively. According to Wikipedia, our esteemed Treasurer started his Commerce degree but never managed to finish it. And now he’s in charge of a $47.6bn budget?
Why academic freedom must be preserved: University of Sydney law lecturer Ben Saul writes about preserving academic freedom from political interference.
Just a miscellany of things that I’ve been doing…
I’ve discovered Terra Politicus, an online game where you play a role in a fictional Australian federal parliament. It’s part run by Daniel, and the attraction is, I guess, that you can do stuff you can’t do in real life. In TP, I’m an annoying journalist - it’s less commitment than being an MP and I can pop in and out and pontificate.
I spent an entire day listening to little kids recite Chinese poetry, courtesy of Tommy, at the National Chinese Eisteddfods… and I never want to hear another line again 
The non-native Mandarin sessions were far more bearable, because at least I didn’t try to make sense of what they were saying. Funny thing - I ran into Josiah from IT, who happened to be a judge there…
I’ve also been going to people’s graduations… funny seeing everyone wear those funny hats. More seriously, it’s good to be there to congratulate them on completing a major milestone.
Other than that, nothing much apart from the usual slog of uni work. Oh, and I upgraded my cousin’s laptop to Vista (the OS stuffed up and they didn’t have an XP CD). I evidently didn’t do my research beforehand, because a number of their devices just didn’t work after the upgrade - driver problems (but that’s because their hardware is a little on the old side). There were howls of protest from my uncle (who’s overseas) because apparently “Vista’s crap” (paraphrasing) but how would you know if you haven’t tried it? I think I made the right decision, because Vista helps with protecting them from a problem they’ve always had: malicious software.
Tags: chinese, graduation, poetry, politics, vista
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