Jul. 23rd, 2007

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Two weeks since my last update?! This more than full-time work is for the birds, I swear. OK, three work changes worthy of note. One was discovering I'd signed a contract that included G.S.T. rather than excluding it. Damn nuissance and rather careless of me, but I suspect will soon be fixed. Second was pushing myself too hard on Friday afternoon after migrating some fifty sites, suffering from a pounding headache and thus accidently deleting the entire site of a major client. Yes, we had a backup, but not the best one possible. Third was recovering our mail system this morning after a the database in postgrey was hanging and thus refusing incoming mail to a large number of clients. Life really never is a dull moment as a sysadmin, it really isn't.

Reactionary feminist Mary Sullivan argues against the rights an desires of sex workers and receives justified responses. I take the opportunity to agree with her; to the 'logical' conclusions. [livejournal.com profile] iron_orchid alerts me that nutbar Catharine McKinnon will be at ANU in a few days. Do keep in mind this is the sort of person who will argue for a global and legal ban on all "pornography". Have fun Canberra people!

On-topic on the subject of ridicule and contempt, the Melbourne Unitarian Church has published Dr. Helen Szoke's speech supporting the Racial and Religious Vilification Act (2001). My response argues that many religious and racial beliefs deserve ridicule and contempt. A little less on-topic, The Age published my letter on the alleged requirement of an "Eternal God" for the universe to exist.

You have to see this; surfing rodents!; but wait, there's more. If you're called a rat, take it as a compliment. The full journal article, "Generalized Reciprocity in Rats", is available.

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