Political Theory, Practical Christianity, Tech Stuff, Social Stuff

[tcpip]

Have written a piece on Leftfocus on Labor's Georgist History. Will circulate to state and federal Labor MPs to see if any of them support this founding principle of the party. Also, the same 'blog is having a debate on the age-old reform vs revolution, vanguard party vs spontaneous masses approach to social change. Writing another item at the moment which combines Lukács and Arendt which argues for "revolutionary reformism" and "vanguard masses".

Last Sunday conducted the service at the Melbourne Unitarian Church, with Baptist Minister Simon Moyle giving the address. A competent speaker, I was very impressed by his practical, here-and-now approach to Christian ethics (I suspect Tolstoy or C.S. Lewis would have liked this). I rather wish than more Christians were of his ilk. With the presence of of the RMIT Choir adding to the mix it was one of the best services I have been to in the seven years I have been a member.

Yesterday gave a presentation on collaborative technologies (pdf) at the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative. Annual work review afterwards was very positive with suggestion that I should take up a Graduate Certificate in Management (Technology), which of course can become a Grad Dip, then an MBA. Causing some 'wow' factor is IBM building an 80-core chip, and nanoscale chip to hold trillions of bits for billions of years.

On Sunday night caseopaya and I visited Polly's and met up with patchworkid, damien_wise, frou_frou, drzero, usekh, txxxpxx and Mr. Pxx - it was supposed to be a gathering for redcountess who was visiting from the UK! Last night dined with imajica_lj, drank cognac and watched Nazi propagandahigh art in the form of Triumph of the Will with our projector.

Have put up a a few old roleplaying games up on Ebay with more coming soon. Any requests? Because chances are I have what you're looking for.

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

We had a session yesterday. Next one is in two week's time.

Balastor did OK, he got to fight Broos! But on the way there the spirit of Zammon Detected Chaos (crit) and as a result engaged in spirit combat with Ackerly. Ackerly managed to beat him back, but it did mean for most of the combat Balastor was holding his head crying "The Voices! The Voices are fighting again!"

In other news, Honest John was killed in the last adventure and put in a barrel of brine. The idea was to resurrect him at Horngate, but that would have caused a degeneration of characteristics. So Praxelites did a Divine Intervention instead.. And lost 18 points of POW. Casting spells and resisting magic isn't so easy for him now..

[darknova666.livejournal.com]

cool c u guys at church on sun!