Monthly Archives: September 2003

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“After a decade of A-grade economic performance and rising prosperity, the question a lot of people are asking is: if we’re so rich, why aren’t we happy?
Tanner’s answer is that developments in the modern world are causing our relationships to break down. Humans are social beings. Our lives have meaning essentially in the context of our relationships with other human beings. So relationships are central to the wellbeing of individuals and society as a whole.”
(Age) via Mez.

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I don’t take everything he says as gospel, but he has a knack of summarising things.
“There are many otherwise decent Americans who are either still on the fence about George W. Bush or they actually profess to like the man.”
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“I would like to give you three little vignettes to share with them. They are so simple and so shocking in their very content that, if you pass them around the office, the school, the neighborhood or the bedroom, it may just do the trick.”.
Read them at MichaelMoore.com

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I’m impressed: “Birds Eye Walls introduced the New Zealand fish two years ago in line with the policy of its parent company, Unilever, to use only fish from sustainable stocks by 2005.”
But – “customers are still reluctant to buy unfamiliar fish and instead plump for the old favourites cod and haddock. Yet these are fish which have been intensively fished to the point of crisis.”
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“Today, polls show that despite warnings that cod stocks are on the verge of collapse, it accounts for more than one-third of household purchases and last year restaurants served 136m cod meals.” (BBC)
At least I know which brand to buy if I’m going to buy fish at the supermarket.

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Argh, email is down again, this time because of the OpenSSH vulnerability. And I nearly broke the Oracle server because a newly rescheduled task spazzed out when the backup ran. Computers aren’t my friends today.
And my google toolbar has decided I really really want the Nicaraguan version and won’t change back.