G’day Surfdomaniacs,
Some upgrading of the software that runs the site is underway. Most functionality is restored already. Things should work as normal for the most part. a few final checks and tweaks going on so, if you find any strangeness or odd behavior occurs. Hold your emails for now.
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Bluegrass version of “Paranoid” Artist Unknown
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As you may already know, for the second year running, Club Troppo is calling for nominations for the annual ‘best in blogging’ showcase: Best Blog Posts 2007. You can nominate up to six blog posts–of any kind, not necessarily political ones. Head on over to the official thread, if you haven’t already, for further details […]

LP picked up the Bush gaffe du jour and prompted Tim Blair to write a snarky post. Blair reckons Bush’s comment was a masterpiece of historical analogy and the lefties are just too dumb to appreciate it.
As usual at their master’s prompting, the Blair disciples have rushed to LP to cackle with raucous laughter at […]

I definitely have to get the full version of Photoshop … the possibilities offered by pics like these are too good to pass up.

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Being a fan of the combination of new media and politics, and having encouraged parties to embrace blogs and other tools rather than shun them, I thought I might be more impressed with Labor’s most recent foray into the field. But I’m not really sure what Kevin07 achieves, other than a immediate novelty value […]

Listening to: Not a lot over the last couple of days, but something a bit stirring would be good:
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It’s been an interesting few days and I want to thank all of those who have written and commented about, well, you know. Thankyou all […]

Mumble (aka Peter Brent) wrote last night:
I think Dennis Shanahan wrote this this morning (as opposed to yesterday). The “PhD” mentions refer, I believe, to me.
A courtesy call from Editor-in-Chief Chris Mitchell this morning informed me that the paper is going to “go” Charles Richardson (from Crikey) and me tomorrow.
Chris said by all means […]

Jon the tech guy informs me that the ongoing problem (blacked out posts) is being fixed over the next 24 hours.  There may be some interruptions as files are moved around, so bear with us.  Particular thanks to all those who sent in suggested fixes.
Anyway, apologies for the inconvenience but hopefully the problem will soon […]

I was very sad to hear about the death of pioneer blogger, Jim Capazzola of the Rittenhouse Review.  RR was one of the first ‘big’ blogs I knew about and dealt with back when Surfdom started in the US in 2002.  Unfortunately, we got off to a rocky start when Jim took offence at some […]

Invig got me thinking with a comment on the last thread about my ‘reputation’. I have a reputation? When did this happen ?
What I started thinking about was blogging and human nature. Human beings seem to abhor equilibrium. The single biggest flaw in neo-classical economics is its basic assumption that markets will tend towards equilibrium. […]