http://benhourigan.com Writer, editor, and entrepreneur Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:59:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/08/30/a-beret-is-not-a-fruit/ [caption id="attachment_400" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Maybe later."][/caption] Well, that's the last time I go to Mount Gambier! I would link to this story, but that would push its Google PageRank even higher. As it is, I've already had my place as the #1 result for "Ben Hourigan" usurped. Given that I tell people ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/08/26/i-am-not-dead/ Expedia is running a competition to win an AFL Grand Final weekend in fabulous Melbourne (my beloved home city), valued at up to $9,600. The competition closes August 31 and is open to Australian residents. Click the image below to enter. Good luck! http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/08/22/win-a-grand-weekend-in-melbourne/ In the absence of genuine content updates, the long-overdue announcement that this site no longer uses WordPress 2.5 or K2, but is now on WordPress 2.6 and a new theme. I spent several weeks looking for a new base theme for my Wordpress sites, and I finally settled on Freshy. Paired ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/07/29/wordpress-26-and-freshy/ With this blog having been out of action so long, there's a lot of upgrading to do. I've upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, and to K2 RC6, losing my custom CSS and header image of the Melbourne skyline in the process. Expect to see some of it back soon. http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/06/07/experimenting/ Watch out: if you ever find yourself writing homogenous, you probably mean homogeneous. According to the New Oxford American Dictionary: Homogeneous: "of the same kind, alike … consisting of parts all of the same kind." Homogenous: "an old fashioned term for homologous," which means "having the same relation, relative position, or structure." This is ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/06/03/homogeneous-vs-homogenous/ It's been over a year. Towards the middle of 2007 I became unsure what image and content this blog was trying to put forward, so I put up a basic placeholder with this short bio: Benjamin Hourigan is the editor at the Centre for Independent Studies, a libertarian think-tank based in ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2008/06/02/im-back/ From an interview with Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist: why should there be a meaning? I mean, we want a cause as to why we're here, but I'm afraid there isn't one. I don't find it depressing at all. # It's exactly what I believe. Unfortunately for me, I do find it depressing, at least ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2007/05/19/no-meaning/ I'm frequently impressed by the quality of Guy Rundle's thinking, and in an article in today's Australian, which is otherwise one of those all too frequent and tiresome explorations of the supposed excess and malaise of contemporary consumer culture, he comes up with this little gem: bq. Surrendering to snack food ... http://benhourigan.com/archives/2007/05/06/surrender-to-snack-food/ I'm now trying out "Peter's Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin for Wordpress":http://www.theblog.ca/?p=21 to keep the spammers at bay. Let's see if it works. http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/12/21/comments-are-go/