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• She's Lost ControlI noticed this short story ...

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  She's Lost ControlI noticed this short story in the Dominion Post yesterday, regarding the legendary Ian Curtis wall. And it got me thinking about the original. No not the last original - this was the last one, which has it's merits - or should I say had, thanks to Wellington [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 6:45pm EDT
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• General Motors seeks US$30b to avoid failure.Have ...

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  General Motors seeks US$30b to avoid failure.Have the Governments of the world forgotten how economics works? If you can't sell enough product to survive then you have no right to be here. What the Governments of the world are doing is allowing business to believe they have rights outside of' [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 8:04pm EST
  

• IEA admits Peak OilTraditionally the (International Energy ...

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  IEA admits Peak OilTraditionally the (International Energy Agency) IEA, has shyed away from the question of peak oil, the idea that we have, or are about to hit the maximum level of global oil production, after which we will begin an irrecoverable decline. However George Monbiot, award winning journalist from [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 9:48pm EST
  

• mala tempora curruntPhD update (now there's an ...

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  mala tempora curruntPhD update (now there's an excuse for not blogging)Is there a rule that every blog entry should begin with a (Smiths) song lyric, or a latin phrase?I've omitted the song lyric and I couldn't figure out the latin for "told ya so". And anyway that sounds petty and' [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

• Life, love and in vino veritasEvery day ...

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  Life, love and in vino veritasEvery day is like sunday,Every day is silent and grey.Happiness part 1.There is some chimerical line that is crossed, somewhere between 35 and 45. It's the point of no *romantic* return. Mortgages, kids and flat screen TVs take precedence over "well up for it" tottie.' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 5:17am EDT
  

• A historic moment. As many of you ...

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  A historic moment. As many of you know, I have been talking about oil and our global economy, for a few years now. Many of the events now unfolding in the face of complete disbelief to many people are right here in this blog. In the last few days we [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2008, 1:32am EDT
  

• Playing Favorites #4The long awaited 4th track ...

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  Playing Favorites #4The long awaited 4th track on my playing favorites. I just had a feeling, right now of sadness, because I'm on the other side of peak. I only have one more track after this, so the pressure naturally gets tighter on this side of the five. There could' [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2008, 4:49am EDT
  

• Am I scaring you?I think it's because ...

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  Am I scaring you?I think it's because I'm clumsyI try not to talk too loudMaybe it's because I'm crazyI try not to act too proud [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2008, 10:49pm EDT
  

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  Posted: April 19, 2008, 7:14am EDT
  

• An Apology. Last week I published a ...

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  An Apology. Last week I published a blog here (subsequently deleted) running down a NZ academic organisation. The blog also referenced a few individuals which I may well have inadvertantly offended. I didn't have that intention. The blog was written in the heat of a moment, overly emotive - a' [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2008, 12:33am EDT
  

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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 8:47pm EDT
  

• Scooter Rage - It's a mod thingWhat ...

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  Scooter Rage - It's a mod thingWhat is it about the general (generally stupid) public that they feel they have the duty to accost scooter riders and make motherly obtuse comments about our riding ability or behaviours? Not to mention moronic retards driving several tonnes of metal who think it [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2007, 4:09pm EST
  

• A couple of post-scriptsSeems like nobody needs ...

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  A couple of post-scriptsSeems like nobody needs or wants Tamiflu anymore - " Thousands of doses of bird-flu medication languish on pharmacy shelves after the public ordered them in a state of pandemic hysteria – but never bothered picking them up." Doh, wasn't this supposed to be the pandemic that' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 6:38pm EDT
  

• A Previous CommentI did say it, back ...

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  A Previous CommentI did say it, back in February actually, that I thought blogging was pretty dull. As one might guess from the temporal gap between this blog and the previous, my actions are reconciled with my fingertips. I think blogging is dull - I just felt like saying it [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2007, 12:36am EDT
  

• I can just about smell the CO2 ...

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  I can just about smell the CO2 on your breathOn Thursday 14th June I fly to Amsterdam to attend E-CAP'07, a Philosophy and Computing Conference. Check out the Conference Programme - in vivid technicolour, I am scheduled in to talk on the Saturday, just before lunch in the "Philosophy of'" [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2007, 12:56am EDT
  

• Playing Favorites #3 I said to my ...

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  Playing Favorites #3 I said to my gorgeous brother Stu last night, whom with his lovely partner Fritha hosted me for dinner and quality beverage, that I want to totally revise my Top 5 "imaginary Kim Hill playing favorites", incidently it's become a game... We couldn't agree about whether you [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2007, 5:30am EDT
  

• Focus... however, the dilemma we face is ...

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  Focus... however, the dilemma we face is never too far from my mind [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 12:19am EDT
  

• Just fingering it out"I look around at ...

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  Just fingering it out"I look around at a beautiful life, been the upperside of down, been the inside of out, but we breathe, we breathe" StereophonicsAt the urging of a friend (I was going to say incessant urging but that would be labouring the point, not to mention exaggerating) I've' [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2007, 3:47pm EDT
  

• Playing Favorites #2Thought it was about time ...

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  Playing Favorites #2Thought it was about time I published song number 2 on the list of 5. "Playing Favorites" is slot on Saturday morning Radio NZ National. The producer of the show hosted by Kim Hill is a bloke called Mark Cubey, quite an affable character, check out my previous [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2007, 1:33am EDT
  

• Planet of SlumsJeremy Harding gives a great ...

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  Planet of SlumsJeremy Harding gives a great review of Mike Davis' Planet of Slums - here is a snip:Homogeneity, Davis would argue, is what late capitalism does: already a billion people live in roughly the same extraordinary way in roughly similar environments. Vast, contiguous slums are the habitat of the' [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2007, 11:03pm EDT
  

• Saudi Oil Production Down 8%Matt Simmons, peak ...

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  Saudi Oil Production Down 8%Matt Simmons, peak oil guru is on record as saying "once Saudi peaks the world has peaked" (End of Suburbia). If he is right the the Reserve Bank won't have to worry too much about quelling the volatile housing market with interest rate hikes - hyperinflation' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2007, 7:53pm EST
  

• Blogging : It's so 2006Well and truely ...

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  Blogging : It's so 2006Well and truely back into the work-life, so I spent 3 minutes browsing a few blogs that I was reading last year, and to be honest the NZ blogs - the ones linked from Scoop.co.nz - well they are so goddamn boring.So much so, that to' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2007, 6:11pm EST
  

• Clueless Fuckwittery Continues Unabated.The Intergovernmental Panel on ...

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  Clueless Fuckwittery Continues Unabated.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued Friday argues that the effects of anthropological emissions on climate will be with us for 1000 years. Worst case scenarios involve millions dead and trillions of dollars lost, extreme weather, droughts, wildfires, melting ice sheets, sea level rises, hurricanes [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2007, 5:07pm EST
  

• Interesting HeadlinesScientists 'pressured on climate findings'The US ...

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  Interesting HeadlinesScientists 'pressured on climate findings'The US continues to live in a fantasyland where the oil supply is infinite, entropy doesn't exist and anyone they don't like have WMDs.Sydney will boil if PM fails: IemmaIt's already boiling - isn't it the worst drought in living memory? No matter, the Federal [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2007, 7:59pm EST
  

• Freedom Hits 2006True automotive freedom has to ...

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  Freedom Hits 2006True automotive freedom has to be 3 to 4 hour delays driving out of Wellington north bound on State Highway 1. Merry Xmas and thank Christ for the motor vehicle. I can just hear the collective anger, frustration, whinging kids... Just what you needs to begin your holidays. [...]
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  Posted: December 22, 2006, 9:15pm EST
  

• Playing Favorites #1I've been trying to convince ...

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  Playing Favorites #1I've been trying to convince Mark Cubey to invite me on to Saturday National Radio to play my favorites. Usually you have to be someone - like be on TV, or have written some book, or saved a swamp or something. I haven't done any of that stuff [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2006, 3:22pm EST
  

• Booyah!The neoconservative geniuses who believed invading Iraq ...

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  Booyah!The neoconservative geniuses who believed invading Iraq would bolster both U.S. and Israeli interests in fact have accomplished the exact opposite -- handing both military and public-relations victories to their sworn enemies. ... If the Bush administration dares to move militarily against Iran, as it has an almost uncontrollable itch [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2006, 8:03pm EST
  

• Creating 5 problems by solving 1I remember ...

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  Creating 5 problems by solving 1I remember when I was about 10 years old. The school I went to, this one summer, had a nasty wasp nest which of course held the attention of all the hubristic, testosterone ravaged lads of my age (including myself of course). The trick was [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2006, 7:06pm EST
  

• Far Quitery Knows No Bounds. or, please ...

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  Far Quitery Knows No Bounds. or, please do not post pointless points in my commentsThe biggest flaw of the pseudo-philosophy called "objectivism" is that its principle tenents are a priori inalienable self-evident truths. Essentially this is a necessary condition for the belief that any particular act is objectively right or [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2006, 7:08pm EST
  

• Joe Bennett and Asian KnickersI've always like ...

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  Joe Bennett and Asian KnickersI've always like Joe Bennetts humour, ironic, satirical and kiwish. This article suggests, him and I, we're on the same team - on ya Joe. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2006, 3:42pm EST
  

• Closing the Collapse Gap by Dimtry Orlov ...

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  Closing the Collapse Gap by Dimtry Orlov Article Sourced from Energy Bulletin Highly recommended compelling reading ! [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2006, 7:21pm EST
  

• Nicky Hager: Late-Capitalisms True Punk Rocker Published ...

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  Nicky Hager: Late-Capitalisms True Punk Rocker Published on 1st Dec on ScoopThe fetish we call “freedom of speech” is resolutely defended in particular, we note, by the liberal right. Yet this creates a very uneasy tension. The pretence of the rational, utilitarian individual, very much aware of how things really are [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2006, 7:06pm EST
  

• Wednesday Morning Ramble, 29 Nov. Seeking my ...

  Wednesday Morning Ramble, 29 Nov. Seeking my muse, or in order to find inspiration to write about this I browsed PCs blog - the fatuous nature of a lot of his content usually irritates me enough to write, for that I guess he deserves thanks. Sure enough I found inspiration in [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2006, 5:37pm EST
  

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  Posted: November 17, 2006, 3:33am EST
  

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