I Must Be Doing Something Right....

The past few days I have been receiving accolades from several UN staff in vastly different sectors throughout the country for various bits of IT advice I've been giving out. Whilst it hasn't seemed like hard work to me, sometimes I forget that I actually do have very good research skills, the capacity to write an dense but logical and clear papers, and that I have moderate knowledge in a range of IT issues and how it all hangs together rather than extremely good specialist knowledge.

In other news, I have two days to finish the final version of my version of events in the great ccTLD war. Seven months of me giving out all the warning signals and finally the people in charge start to wake up on the issue. I'm going to find it very difficult to forgive the political elite here if they stuff this up.

Oh, almost forgot to mention. The Age published a letter I sent in today concerning Islam's early (perhaps too early) capacity for enlightened thinking.

Unsworn has been very tricky for the second question. He's pinched a comment I made in another journal namely:

There is one universal standard for morality (nota bene: I'm an aesthetic relativist and a moral universalist); when all participants know what they're doing and all participants agree to participate. If you want to do what other people may consider (aesthetically) kinky but you and and your fellow participants want 'in' (is that the right word?) then it's a moral act, and quite frankly, noone else's damn fscking business.

It seems that he wants me to elaborate on this... Well, I'll write that up tonight..

Call this "A Contribution to An Attempt To Resolve the Question of Universal Morality and Cultural Relativism using the Sambian Cock-Suckers of New Guinea As An Example"

... and with that rather unusual and complex example, I suspect that a lot of people will be interested in my answer.....