Criticising Conroy – and censorship

23 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser
Criticising Conroy – and censorship

There’s a lot of discussion lately about the interenet filter/blackist/censorship plan of Senator Stephen Conroy. Here’s the latest I’ve read: Conroy’s response to Crikey (tweeted by @Mactalk). In it, Senator Conroy writes, well, like a politician. He engages in so much double-speak my eyes crossed while trying to read it. The comments provided very...

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The beauty of clouds

22 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser
The beauty of clouds

I thought I might post up some of the photos I’ve taken of clouds – not the sunrise or occasional sunset pics I have; just cool-looking clouds (though some are getting towards sunset, it’s low sun through cool clouds, rather than the colourful sunset sort of photo -if that makes sense )....

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The Music of the World

21 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

Music of the World No, not “World Music” – whatever that is; it’s always seemed to me to represent some sort of cash-in on the odd cycles the West seems to go through of fascination with this or that non-Anglo-Saxon culture. What I mean is the music that is all around us, all the...

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – what was wrong

20 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

… or alternatively, my fantasy version of TPM. First I should say I love The Phantom Menace. While it’s not my favourite STar Wars film, that’s just because I love others more – not because I don’t think Phantom Menace is great. That said however, with a few changes (which could easily be done even...

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Oracular Ethics: Understanding Your Choices – part 2

18 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

Understanding your choices, pt. 2 In a previous post I wrote about what I termed “Oracular Ethics” – after the Oracle in the Matrix films, who tells Neo: “… you’ve already made the choice. Now you have to understand it”. As I indicated in that post, this is really how I tend to think...

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Follow-up Fail

18 December, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

One of the things that frustrates me the most, working in my acute outpatient team, is follow-up once the situation is no longer acute. Few of our patients have the wherewithal to afford even the gap payment between the Medicare subsidy and the charges of private practitioners, and the other teams within our service...

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