Beliefs surveys for 2007 Election

Kudos to Festival of Light for their excellent survey in determining the values of candidates for the 2007 Federal Election. Please encourage the candidates in your local electorate to fill out the survey.

Contemplating my mobile computing platform

For the past 3 years, i've used a Dell Axim X50v as my take-everywhere computer. It has served me well (i typed some of this article on it), but is on its last legs now, and i'm a bit unsure about where to go next. Mobile computing has changed a lot in the last 3 years, and i'm not sure whether the same type of device is still viable. Also, the problems of mobile computing whilst using Linux on the desktop are still troublesome.

The main things i used my PDA for are (in rough order of priority):

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God's name

I just read (i'm a bit slow, i know) this article by Alan Grey responding to the suggestion that we should all call God 'Allah'. (I would have replied in a comment, but the captcha system employed by blogspot.com doesn't want to play nice.)

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Looking for polling booth helpers!

Alan Lucas has announced that he will be standing for the seat of Bowman, Qld for the Family First Party in the 2007 federal election. I'm looking for people to help out at as many polling booths as possible in our electorate on election day. If you would like to help, please contact me. ...

Spambot attack - part 3

This spambot attack is continuing to have a residual tail:

Current statistics are: 7713 messages greylisted from 3407 unique IPs.

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