Move to new Host and Domain

I'm moving my blog to a new host: NearlyFreeSpeach.NET and to a new domain http://blog.timp.com.au.

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Categories: Meta
Date: 2009-01-18 23:03:56, 15 years and 64 days ago

Injecting Money into the Economy

How the government "injects money into the economy"¹. While it's true that the Queensland increase only amounts to 1.5% of the total stimulus, extrapolated out to the rest of the country it comes to around 20% (QLD Pop: 1.5M, Total Australian Pop: 20M), and then of course there's the Alcohol industry which probably experienced similar increases. (There's also smoking, illegal drugs, prostitutes, and other vices as well) In total we are talking around 40-50% of the the economic stimulus being wasted on vices².

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Date: 2009-01-18 23:03:54, 15 years and 64 days ago

The Four L's

Whilst this argument has been stated previously (C.S. Lewis formed the first version with only three L's, and Legend was added later), I feel it is well worth repeating. This is essentially an argument as too who the real historic figure of Jesus of Nazareth was. There is extensive historical documents surrounding this Rabbi from Judea who claimed to be much more than just a Rabbi. (Don't believe me that Jesus claimed to be God? See Matt. 27:43, Mark 14:62, Luke 22:70, John 6:35, John 6:40, John 6:51, John 8:12, John 8:23-24, John 8:58, and a bunch of others that I couldn't be bothered to look up right now)

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Categories: Religion
Date: 2009-01-11 23:03:54, 15 years and 71 days ago

Linkage

Just a bunch of interesting links I've found over the past while, don't worry I'm still planning to write a real blog post this weekend as well. Also sorry for missing the last two posts, Christmas was deliberate, but I just didn't get anything done on the 3rd/4h.

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Categories: Oddities, Linkage
Date: 2009-01-10 23:03:54, 15 years and 72 days ago