If Rudd doesn't show up then Brown should take his place.

It seems that Kevin Rudd doesn't seem to be keen about debating John Howard this Sunday night.

Wormless PM may debate alone

If Kevin doesn't want to show then Bob Brown should go along.

It would suit everyone involved because both the Prime Minister and Bob Brown want to steal votes from Labor. There probably aren't many votes who would switch from Green to Liberal or vice versa so I think both Howard and Brown would realize that it's in their mutual interests to go after Labor.

But since absolutely no one reads this blog I fear my inspired idea will simply dissolve into the ether of the Internet.

Getting started is the hardest part of any task.

I had that phrase in my head all this evening.

It's true though. I always find that before I start something I always perceive it to be more difficult than it really is. It's like I have to invest "activation energy" to get a project going, but then it gets easier.

Peter Garrett is not a pot head so why not get tested?

Today Daniel Johns from Silverchair claimed that he had smoked marijuana with rock star turned Labour politician Peter Garrett and Bono from U2. Daniel later retracted the claims and called them a stupid joke.

"It was really one of the most surreal moments of my life," Johns said. "It was me and Natalie and Peter Garrett and Bono laying on Bono's bed smoking joints, listening to Young Modern demos."

There were calls for Peter Garrett to get tested for drug use.

Anti-drugs campaigner Tony Wood, whose daughter Anna died of an ecstasy overdose in 1995, said Mr Garrett could resolve the matter by proving the incident initially described by Johns had never taken place.

"The easiest way for him to fix this is to go out and have himself drug-tested today," he said.

Indeed getting tested would be the most obvious thing that Peter Garrett could do. I have no doubts that he'd have a clean result as well.

My gut feeling, and this is just speculation on my part, is that Garrett was prepared to have a test and publicise the results. However his leader Rudd, or one of his other Labor leash holders, has told him not to get tested because they're afraid that once one member of parliament gets tested, they'll all have to be tested!

I'd be willing to bet money that there are more than a few politicians in federal parliament who would test positive for illicit drug use. I'd also be pretty sure that most of them would be on the Labor side. I knew a few prominent Labor party people in my university days and while I never actually saw any of them use drugs, they always had what I thought to be a pretty "relaxed" attitude towards them.

IPv6

There was an interesting post on digg about IPv6. I shut my browser window so I'm not going to paste in the link.

IPv6 is the so called next version of the underlying protocol that the Internet runs on. The current version is IPv4.

IPv6 has all sorts of advantages, but the main one is IP address space.

The catch 22 with it is that if you migrate to IPv6 then you can't easily communicate with the exiting IPv4 internet without having a complicated and probably very slow protocol translation system.

It would be a bit like changing from speaking English to speaking Esperanto. Esperanto might be technically better, but everyone else speaks English! You'd have a lot of trouble doing business in the world if you refused to speak anything but Esperanto right?

I think that the only way people will move to IPv6 is if there's some act of government that mandates it, or if youtube and google stop their IPv4 service and moves entirely to IPv6.

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