Wed, 29 Mar 2006
Via tha ABC:
Queensland’s Police and Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence […] told Parliament […] “Palmer and Comrie got it right, the Department of Immigration is unwilling to review and reform itself and it isn’t helped by an incompetent and indolent minister who isn’t willing to push these reforms.”
So today’s award for the promotion of indolence as a term and a lifestyle is jointly awarded to Ms Spence and Ms Vanstone! Congratulations to both our winners!
Fri, 24 Mar 2006
Like last year I thought I might blog some random thoughts on the DPL campaign from the last few weeks. Since there’s already the platforms to read, not to mention the debate, and the various mails to the debian-vote mailing list, I’ll add a fold to make it easy to skip.
Wed, 22 Mar 2006
I sent in my vote for the DPL election. Fortunately, devotee was written by Manoj, not me, so the response I got back didn’t look like this:
Thu, 09 Mar 2006
The Rebuttals That Didn't Make It
So with the rebuttals up for the DPL campaign, it’s as good a time as any to post the couple of drafts I had that didn’t make it into mine:
Wed, 01 Mar 2006
Joey replies to my post from yesterday with his own example of leaving:
The technical details remain as irrelivant today as they were at the time, the relevant problem being that developers who are not involved in the installer development rarely consider how their actions can affect it.
When a policy gets int the way of solving a problem, it’s time to leave, that’s all.
His posted logs suffer from unescaped angle brackets so aren’t very easy to follow; and also from the fact that for rather obvious reasons they don’t include any of the conversation that took place after he left. Extended logs and the other side of that story below the fold: