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Prosper, Cisco, Uni IP, Weekend Events, Singing Mice
Prosper Australia planning day went well. Organisation has a new mission statement, objectives and means of implementation - all that is needed now is acceptance by the executive. On a related subject, the great Aussie home boom is over. John Symonds of Aussie Home Loans is telling residential property investors to sell, because their property value will go down in value over the next couple of years; a position supported by a spokesperson Australian Property Monitor (who advise the Reserve Bank).
CCNA modules tests this week were not good. My ISO management test received a paltry 82.5% and my Access Lists an unacceptable 71.4%; not my worst result, but pretty bad. I really need to review both those chapters. In fact, I really need to work more on my semester 2 material - the sheer diversity of my grades (from 71.4% to 96.2%) is unacceptable. In other Cisco related fun, I engaged in some password recovery on the Catalyst switch I just bought on the cheap and discovered the joys of minicom. Reminds me so much of Telix, my favourite DOS dialup.
Dramatic news of the week; Cameron Jones, who has fungus based music, has had his website pulled by Swinburne University (most of it is still available under archive.org). Why? Well on Wednesday his work on using CD technology to detect pathogens (e.g., anthrax) was screened on Beyond Tomorrow. Suddenly the University, having steadfastly ignored his work (and grant applications) for months flipped and saw dollar signs. Chances are they weren't terribly impressed when Cameron suggested that the software he's developing should be released under GPL. (Either that or our good doctor is about to go missing under the new terrorism legislation).
Weekend consisted of Labor for Refugees meeting on Saturday where Simone Elias of the Fitzroy Legal Service gave a presentation on the experience of refugees and the racial/religious vilification act. I expressed my criticisms of the bill (that is, truth is not a defense, loosening up defamtion law would be a better direction and you can't oppose the anti-sedition laws unless you also oppose this law). Following thi a very late night for Denny's return to Melbourne visit. Spent a great deal of time chatting to Robbie who I hadn't seen for some three years and her little daughter Nyssa (not so little at all now - eight to twelve is a big jump!). Managed to drag myself up after noon on Sunday to run Outbreak of Heresy. The valiant troupe managed to convince the pagans not to launch war on the neighbouring Christian lords and cure Count Magnus of the insanity that he could actually win said war; even if all this did include manipulating some very trippy iconographic prophetic cards.
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usekh mice sing. Kinks are getting very specific. The latest spam of amusement I've received has the subject: "Two wet lesbians playing water soccer". They've finally admitted it; Vietnam War incident 'faked'. So how many millions of lives were lost on that lie? That earthquake in Pakistan (which everyone seems to have forgotten about) now has an official death toll of over 73 000. Finally, the left finally gets it's act together in Europe.
CCNA modules tests this week were not good. My ISO management test received a paltry 82.5% and my Access Lists an unacceptable 71.4%; not my worst result, but pretty bad. I really need to review both those chapters. In fact, I really need to work more on my semester 2 material - the sheer diversity of my grades (from 71.4% to 96.2%) is unacceptable. In other Cisco related fun, I engaged in some password recovery on the Catalyst switch I just bought on the cheap and discovered the joys of minicom. Reminds me so much of Telix, my favourite DOS dialup.
Dramatic news of the week; Cameron Jones, who has fungus based music, has had his website pulled by Swinburne University (most of it is still available under archive.org). Why? Well on Wednesday his work on using CD technology to detect pathogens (e.g., anthrax) was screened on Beyond Tomorrow. Suddenly the University, having steadfastly ignored his work (and grant applications) for months flipped and saw dollar signs. Chances are they weren't terribly impressed when Cameron suggested that the software he's developing should be released under GPL. (Either that or our good doctor is about to go missing under the new terrorism legislation).
Weekend consisted of Labor for Refugees meeting on Saturday where Simone Elias of the Fitzroy Legal Service gave a presentation on the experience of refugees and the racial/religious vilification act. I expressed my criticisms of the bill (that is, truth is not a defense, loosening up defamtion law would be a better direction and you can't oppose the anti-sedition laws unless you also oppose this law). Following thi a very late night for Denny's return to Melbourne visit. Spent a great deal of time chatting to Robbie who I hadn't seen for some three years and her little daughter Nyssa (not so little at all now - eight to twelve is a big jump!). Managed to drag myself up after noon on Sunday to run Outbreak of Heresy. The valiant troupe managed to convince the pagans not to launch war on the neighbouring Christian lords and cure Count Magnus of the insanity that he could actually win said war; even if all this did include manipulating some very trippy iconographic prophetic cards.
Cute link of the week: from
usekh mice sing. Kinks are getting very specific. The latest spam of amusement I've received has the subject: "Two wet lesbians playing water soccer". They've finally admitted it; Vietnam War incident 'faked'. So how many millions of lives were lost on that lie? That earthquake in Pakistan (which everyone seems to have forgotten about) now has an official death toll of over 73 000. Finally, the left finally gets it's act together in Europe.
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Well, those of us with sober senses realised some time ago that the real estate housing boom was a bubble economy. You can't increase the price of something without adding value assuming supply and demand stay the same. It'll bite in the long run.
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It was rather silly of them a few years back to remove house prices from calculations of inflation. The house I buy this year for $400,000 I sell next year for $425,000, having done absolutely nothing to the place. If that isn't inflation, I don't know what is...
Not that inflation is some great evil which must be fought or anything. Hyperinflation makes things messy, of course, but a little, so what. It's only when some things inflate more than others that there's a real problem. Homes going from 4-5 years' average wages to 10 or more is... a bit miserable.
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No, inflation is increasing price due to supply decreasing and demand increasing (supply has actually increased) or increases in the cost of production (the cost of building has actually decreased slightly). Inflation also usually results witha an increase of money supply.
This has been pure speculation; and the bubble has burst.