In Australia those days where everyone who is in full time employment (except those who are self employed) gets the day off and still gets paid for it are officially known as public holidays. Most people just refer to them as long weekends since most of them fall on a Monday. There are nine public [...]

One advantage of having this blog here is that when something bugs me and it would be inappropriate to comment on it anywhere else I can always put something here. One such matter is something I was reading on a web site a couple of weeks ago which involved a discussion regarding knowledge and belief. [...]

There are a number of religious and secular celebrations of various sorts occurring over the next few weeks and so it seems appropriate for me to wish everyone all the best for whichever of those celebrations that it is that you celebrate. There seems to be a move in recent years to not specifically reference [...]