Would an opposition party that modernised service to members win elections as opposed to governments losing them?
Do any of these sound familiar from your previous experience with Australian elections?
“[Insert political party name] infighting really killed their election chances.”
“[Insert political party name] really underestimated how unpopular [insert policy name] would be.”
Posted under Hate pets, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on September 8, 2013
In Libya or Syria the right to vote may be worth a life. However there’s little in the way of basic freedoms and a low standard of living. There is everything to play for in comparison to a Western democracy where you have many established rights and the standard of living is higher still.
Posted under Hate pets, Unanswerable questions, Wait for release 2.0
This post was written by @Drivelry on April 15, 2012
We saw an interesting social engineering technique on Twitter this morning which relies on anyone’s natural curiosity when their Twitter username is mentioned.
[WARNING: STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT VISIT THE URL IN THIS EXAMPLE.]
These Twitter users have a robot set up which scans the public Twitter timeline looking for Tweets mentioning certain keywords.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on August 16, 2010
I think I lack a facial recognition gene. Yeah, I know nobody finds it easy to recognise people or remember their names. This is not what I’m talking about.
I can remember people’s names, I just can’t tell whether I’ve met them or not. My recognition techniques therefore include getting into inane conversations with them and hoping that by talking about nothing for a while something they say rings a bell.
Posted under Hate pets, Self doubt
This post was written by @Drivelry on May 9, 2010
Imagine as a small business owner you go and buy an office suite, off-plan in some big office development somewhere from those well known property developers Bodgett & Bludgett.
Now imagine that following the completion of your new office suite your property developer plasters large signs on every customer-facing entry point to your office saying ‘Building designed and built by Bodgett & Bludgett Property Developers’.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on November 20, 2009
If you are a blogger just starting out, there is a bright shiny world of poor blogging advice to be discovered. It covers the full spectrum:
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This post was written by @Drivelry on August 5, 2009
