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Recent blog posts

• I installed the Bad Behavior plugin on WordPress and within 48 hours it has blocked 4700 spam referrals.
• Newspaper photographers are a dying species.
• Twenty-five percent of people are likely to change jobs this year.

I now write about technology news at http://views.gorey.co

Congratulations to Rio on being selected to host the 2010 Olympics.

The Advertiser online reports that suppression orders would lapse once a court case is concluded under changes proposed by the Liberal Party to improve transparency in government.

Officially launching the party's policy today, Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond said the change aimed to "reduce the over-application" of suppression orders by ensuring they automatically lapse at the end of a case unless an application is successfully made to extend the order.

I'm an anti capitalist who detests lower case names: http://ax.lv/14

What I tweet about.

Watching The Gods Must Be Crazy (again).

I can't help but think the current Liberal Party turmoil is more about factional warfare than climate change.

I'm not writing Turnbull off just yet.

Fire danger warnings

There's a lot of unrest about the new fire danger warning system in southern Australia.

Some areas have had two "catastrophic" days already, and it's only November.

I think they've got the system wrong. It seems to be more about arse covering than protecting people.