The decision by the Supreme Court last Friday to overturn Roe vs Wade and eliminate a fundamental right of women in the world's leading democracy for almost 50 years is a shock but not a surprise. * To say that this is a massive deal for the United States
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Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic there's been plenty of scary headlines, statistics and tragic individual stories. One thing I've rarely seen, though, is a comparative base for understanding the statistics that drive the scary headlines. To help with my own understanding, I've compiled a couple
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Update March 2022do notrequires I'm the US right now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns/shutdowns across most of the economy. One of my friends and colleagues happened to have his E-3 visa expiring next week, and so the usual options of a visa dash
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A startup mailing list I'm on recently had a customer-development survey link posted to it for an idea I thought was absolutely terrible. It is another "buy food from an app and have it delivered to you" product, but in this case they take inputs from
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Apple. It just works.
Like many Aussie and Kiwi ex-pats I know, checking in on the news in the old country is both a habit and an escape, but the constant attempts by the old print media to "reinvent" themselves as broadcast/video media had lead to an irritating and increasingly prevalent
As an Aussie expat, it is a shame that all the awesome stuff on ABC's iView site is locked away. Aside from wanting to keep across what's going on back in Australia, there's truly world-class content produced regularly for 4Corners, Foreign Correspondent and stacks
As a big fan of the NBA (and particularly my adopted home town team, the Golden State Warriors) I was pretty excited to get into this year's season. While previous seasons have been aided by borrowing the Comcast credentials from a friend and streaming games via the CSN
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From time to time someone will email (or be introduced via email) who's exploring career opportunities in San Francisco or Silicon Valley. Here's a variation of an email I recently wrote to answer this question - hopefully by putting this somewhere Google can find it I
Got an email from Change.org inviting me to sign two competing petitions. One of them is to ban "illegal" Uber in one state of Australia, and the other is to change the rules to allow Uber in another state. On face value, the numbers are pretty clearly
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This summer my fiancee and I took a vacation to Europe, and we decided to go to Majorca (also spelled Mallorca) for our "relax by the Med" part of our trip. One of the hardest things to work out what was how to avoid the hordes of chavs
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TL;DR: renewing your E3 visa in Canada is possible, but there's a bit of a quirk that means rolling the dice. This an outline of how I did it in Vancouver in late June 2015. Almost four years ago I wrote a long and detailed blog post