I have been rewatching some of the Star Trek Next Generation episodes recently. I had forgotten how annoying and inaccurate the opening of that show was with the comment “to boldly go where no one has gone before” where there wasn’t a single show in which they went anywhere without meeting someone who was already [...]

There’s been a lot in the news lately about the Japanese boats in the southern oceans and the conservationists attempts to interfere with what they are doing. Perhaps a more appropriate response would be to send a scientific expedition into southern waters to capture and dissect these Japanese whalers in order to see if there [...]

Even those who know how to spell seem to rely too much on the spill chucker (sic) built into whichever application on their computer they are writing with. What they all seem to forget is that even though it can check if what you have typed is the correct spelling of a work, it still [...]

From what I have seen, a lot of people have no idea of what these two words mean. I have even seen some situations where someone has got the two words mixed up and has used one where the other would make slightly more sense (but not much since neither is what they are really [...]

Saw a documentary on the weekend about a skull that was supposedly undergoing a scientific and historical investigation to see if it was Ned Kelly’s. In some ways it seemed more sensationalist than scientific. The first question to be answered was whether it was the skull that had been on display as Ned Kelly’s that [...]

I don’t know why but there were a number of really crazy things that happened on my way to work this morning. Two involved cars and the other two were on the radio. The firsat car driver appeared to be in a real hurry. Every chance he got he exceeded the speed limit by as [...]

I have been thinking about what happened in the last episode and it still makes no sense – in fact this entire season makes no sense. It’s a pity as the show used to be entertaining (and at one point was even educational). Hopefully the second half of the current series will get postponed until [...]

A recent newspaper article that I saw suggested that certain television shows have a political bias. Now in some of the instances mentioned the television show was originally based on a book. One example in particular was MASH and I can’t really understand why that particular example was included in the list of examples of [...]

The politicians do not appear to know the difference between carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. They are proposing a carbon tax on the harmless carbon dioxide emissions but not doing a thing about the deadly carbon monoxide emissions – except for trying to arrange for there to be a lot more of it.

Went to another meeting last night. The information that has been gathered seems compelling, it is just a matter of hoping that enough politicians have sufficient intelligence to understand it when it is presented to them. The evidence relating to health risks has apparently been rejected because it relates to similar setups in America where [...]