Andrew

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Date registered: September 24, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Australian Foreign Legion? — October 30, 2010
  2. Why do we need to have copies of television shows from overseas? — October 19, 2010
  3. Is Democracy Dead? — October 16, 2010
  4. Should divulging your password be a legal requirement? — October 11, 2010
  5. Request for Comments — October 8, 2010

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  2. Should divulging your password be a legal requirement? — 2 comments
  3. Impressed With WordPress 3.0 — 1 comment
  4. Effort and Coaching — 1 comment
  5. Revising the Role of the Speaker of the House of Representatives — 1 comment
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Oct
30

Australian Foreign Legion?

by Andrew

Watching a documentary in the background when doing an assignment, I heard about the French Foreign Legion. They supposedly have 12 times more applicants than positions. They are elite and don’t ask questions just hard work and loyalty. The Australian military has recruitment problems, especially fit determined individuals who are prepared to sign their lives… Continue reading »

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Oct
19

Why do we need to have copies of television shows from overseas?

by Andrew

Tonight in Australia we see the first episode on channel nine of Top Gear Australia competing with this we have Iron Chef Australia on channel 7. I have no doubt that these shows will not be as good as the original.  I think they will be terrible and make me feel worse than I do… Continue reading »

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Oct
16

Is Democracy Dead?

by Andrew

When it comes to systems of government the ideal is held up to be democracy. This is because it supposedly fulfills the idea of citizens living in a free environment where they are able to live the lives they want to live with the rules the type that represent their morals and how they believe a country should be run. Not only does this ideal fail to be kept but there are valid alternatives that can be discussed.

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Oct
11

Should divulging your password be a legal requirement?

by Andrew

Recently there has been debate in the UK and USA about the necessity to give up passwords. Particularly surrounding encryption keys. The UK has laws forcing you to divulge passwords as requested or there is jail time, the USA is still formulating a legal position, some saying that refusal is in keeping with 5th amendment rights not to incriminate yourself others likening an encrypted hard drive like a safe which there is legal precedent can be opened on a warrant.

I don’t think that you should be forced to give up your passwords because of issues surrounding futility and the burden of proof as well as the moral justification for encryption.

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Oct
08

Request for Comments

by Andrew

I did not think that anyone was reading is because there never were any comments on the site. I never was emailed and no one questioned what I was saying.

I ask, if you are reading this blog or are interested in learning more about something (or hearing less about it) please drop me a comment or an email and let me know.

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Oct
07

SQL Server Regular Expression Replace Part 2

by Andrew

How to speed up time consuming monotonous writing of SQL code in Management Studio using regular expressions to replace values. This can take a reformatted ordinary line of code and use it to log values in a stored procedure or prepare code for a long merge statement.

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Oct
04

Revising the Role of the Speaker of the House of Representatives

by Andrew

There has been much debate recently in Australia about agreements to reform how the Australian Parliament operates when in session. Regardless of your affiliation I think that this has raised questions that have not been adequately answered by the media or the members of parliament themselves. The main question was if it was constitutional to pair… Continue reading »

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Oct
03

2010 UCI Road World Championships

by Andrew

Cycling is a sport that is like cricket, it has long bits that may seem boring but any second could be a key turning point in a long event that comes down to the wire. I’ve really enjoyed watching on TV this week’s Cycling World championships in Geelong, although there were no australian winners as… Continue reading »

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Sep
30

SQL Server Logging Stored Procedure

by Andrew

There are many reasons you may want to log how long something is taking in Microsoft SQL Server, this is a stored procedure that lets you do precise logging easily.

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Sep
29

Effort and Coaching

by Andrew

When someone goes target shooting they are always putting in as much effort as they can. Beginners may actually be putting in more effort than the professionals.

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