Poor Octopus

Exhausted octopus dies picking Oz election result.

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Categories: Humour, Linkage, Politics
Date: 2010-08-26 23:03:54, 13 years and 209 days ago

Speedup of Trac Static Content

At work I recently spent some time working on getting our hosted Trac to run faster. I found one simple little trick that gave up to a 20% speed improvement, so I thought I'd share it here.

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Categories: Computers, Linux, Work
Date: 2010-08-25 23:03:54, 13 years and 210 days ago

The Stupidest Thing on the Internet Ever

A review God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science. I strongly recommend reading this post; It's both entertaining and educational. Note the title of this post is not a reference to Author himself, but rather something he talks about in his post (about a third of the way down).

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Date: 2010-08-12 23:03:54, 13 years and 223 days ago

Henry Review Income Tax Recommendation

Apparently the Coalition is thinking about looking into implementing one of the recommendations of the Henry Review [of the Australian taxation system] for a [pseudo-]flat tax rate. I think this is a great idea, and I hope they do implement it.

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Categories: Linkage, Politics
Date: 2010-08-09 23:03:54, 13 years and 226 days ago