I would assume most of you now have heard about the ‘Hey hey it’s Saturday - Red Face’ skit that has created a debate about if the blackface minstrel is racist or not. I would assume most of you have read some of the articles about the incident and how Harry Connick Jr. reacted to it. Based on some of my tweets you can hopefully understand where I stand regarding this unfortunate incident.
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Hey hey, blackface minstrels are not funny any more.
Norway world’s best place to live?
Reuters writes:
Norway has retained its status as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to U.N. data released on Monday, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places.
If it’s the country to live in, why haven’t I been living there the last 4+ years?
I’m fairly confident that this is the prime example how statistics can really be used the wrong way. Based on the report, I can’t say I recognise Norway. At least that’s not the Norway I grew up in or read about everyday in the Norwegian media.
Either I must have been in all the wrong places everyday and I’m still reading the wrong articles everyday, or something can’t be right with the statistics.
I wonder if they asked anyone in Norway what they think, or if they took a few numbers, mixed them together and created a bunch of new numbers and claimed them as “facts”.
After living in my fourth country I can say with certainty, as of now, that there is now best country. All countries have different qualities. And from the countries I’ve been living in, they do a lot more things better than Norway.
Why I criticise Telstra.
From what I know, Telstra is doing what many telcos did when Internet was scarce and new to the public, and they really don’t know what they are doing; which is about 10 years ago. In other words, I feel like I’ve traveled back in time. Traveled back to the technological dark ages.
The irony is that I think broadband came to Australia the same time as in Norway, so you would think Australia would have managed to pull their finger out from their hole by now. Apparently not.
The Swiss office for Data Protection has asked Google to turn off Street View within the country because it doesn’t meet the conditions demanded when permission was given to go ahead with the photography.
Finally someone who stands up against Google’s slack view on privacy.
