I have started a bunch of topic specific blogs on two main subject areas.
Installing database software on Amazon EC2 at dbadojo.com
and
Virtual Machine Datamines at vmdatamine.com
The funny thing was I had owned the domains for both for a while and noticed that I could use blogger as the host, whilst have the domain something which didn't include a free blogger site, which apparently is bad form in the blogging world (and analytic world).
Google Analytics is on them all, and unlike this poor old blog with it many pearls of wisdom, insightful comments, they were an immediate hit. Who cares about economics and climate change skeptics eh?
Other news:
Pythian Australia has grown to two DBAs and we now also have two Australian based clients.
Onto the real meat of this blog: My opinion
I saw some interesting comments from NSW Minister Costa on climate change, by God I agree with the man!
Yes, I am a heretic, global warming is caused by the sun.
Solar activity is way up and other planets polar icecaps are melting and some want us to think that our technology and lifestyle is causing this problem.
Scare tactics are not fun, especially when you gain to profit from them, not only in dollars but other benefits like fame (Australian of the Year) and the old rumor of a run by Al Gore for the most powerful man on the planet (US president).
My rejection by the way doesn't stop me disliking pollution and land degradation. That is a different issue. It is mainly based on a rejecting pseudo science, cherry picking climates periods and rubbery analysis (pick the data to fit the theory), an Assault on Reason in all regards.
Al Gore's book is a perfect example of hijacking words and presenting ideas which in fact Defy Reason, spit in the face of Reason, trample reason into the ground as the herd of scientific consensus replaces scientific experiment. Perfect Orwellian.
Even time I think of the scare campaigners I think of the witches of MacBeth standing over their cauldron. Promising Macbeth the throne, not revealing the evil which is required to get there.
So we will have our romantic promised land, our garden of eden, and mother "Gaia" earth will be free (of humans and their dread technology of course).
Have a read of this article from a fellow skeptic at CoyoteBlog
Have Fun
Paul
