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<?xml version="1.0" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>OJB's Blog</title><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2</link><description>OJB's Web Site: Blog</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 by OJB</copyright><docs>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/RSS</docs><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:53:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>OJB's Blog: Progress at Last?</title><description>It's yet another sign of the impending end of woke! Is this progress, at last?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2442</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:53:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Ask Doctor Google</title><description>Do I not trust doctors? Well, to some extent I do, but I would prefer an AI any day!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2441</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:50:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: How Far is that Star?</title><description>How would we really know how big the universe is?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2438</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:11:38 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: My Latest Conspiracy</title><description>All good conspiracies are totally unaffected by the facts!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2436</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:46:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: So, What About Iran?</title><description>We can only hope that this will be the exception where things turn out for the better!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2435</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:28:23 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Been There, Believed That</title><description>Sometimes I even say "been there, believed that"</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2434</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:01:26 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Some Feghoots</title><description>Never say you din't learn something reading my blog!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2433</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:11:39 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Witch Hunt</title><description>Is this just another witch hunt?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2432</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:28:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Double Standards</title><description>True liberalism would never succumb to these obvious inconsistencies.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2431</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:42:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Media Inconsistency</title><description>Most people are more susceptible to media inconsistency.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2430</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:48:38 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Forget the Treaty</title><description>I think it is time to forget Waitangi Day, and to forget the Treaty!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2429</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:12:39 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unintended Consequences</title><description>They're ignoring the unintended consequences.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2428</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:17:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Why So Hard?</title><description>I want to ask the printer manufacturers at this point is this: why so hard?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2427</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:59:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Management Opinion</title><description>There's no point in making your life harder for no good reason!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2426</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:50:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Better Type of War</title><description>It seems to me that Trump really does prefer a better type of war!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2425</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:21:56 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Interesting Time</title><description>Where it will go, who really knows, but it's going to be an interesting time.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2424</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:06:07 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: End of Another Error</title><description>I have go to say that this is both a happy and sad milestone in my life.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2423</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:16:32 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Too Much Control</title><description>The last thing we need is a government with too much control.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2422</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:21:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Good Education</title><description>Soon it will be easy to get a good education.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2421</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:03:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Babylon Bee</title><description>Visit the Babylon Bee web site. You won't regret it!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2420</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:01:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Are We the Baddies?</title><description>Maybe you should ask yourself: are we the baddies?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2419</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:01:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Time For Them to Go!</title><description>So not a single comment there supporting them.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2418</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:05:37 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Democracy v Bureaucracy</title><description>It's not left versus right which I am complaining about: it is bureaucracy versus democracy!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2417</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:25:07 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Second-Handers</title><description>They are the second-handers.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2416</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:55:25 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Suicidal Empathy</title><description>We need empathy, but not suicidal empathy.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2414</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:55:24 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Terrorism vs Genocide</title><description>Please don't feel like you need to be ashamed of New Zealand's response.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2413</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:02:25 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Sheeple</title><description>Are they succumbing to fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2412</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:12:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Peak Fascism</title><description>Just so you know: assassinating people who think differently than you is peak fascism!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2411</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:40:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Kiwi Values</title><description>From a practical perspective it has too many problems.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2410</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:32:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Problematic Ideas</title><description>Some people will read this and think, what's the problem here?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2409</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:00:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What They Got Right</title><description>I think it is important to acknowledge what they got right.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2408</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:47:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: This is War!</title><description>I think it is a surface indicator of a deeper issue.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2406</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:01:23 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Too Many Road Cones</title><description>I think it is clear, there are too many road cones!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2404</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:55:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Value Autonomy</title><description>We need to value autonomy.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2403</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:16:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More than Average</title><description>It's a worthwhile aim though: knowing more than average.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2402</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:28:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Empathy Deficit</title><description>They end up reducing the total empathy in the world.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2401</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:17:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Greta and the Omnicause</title><description>I'm sure she will find some other trendy issue to move on to.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2399</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:51:47 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Respect the Flag?</title><description>Find me a Maori flag and I will burn it.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2398</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 06:45:40 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Our AI Overlords</title><description>Some say the future looks bleak, but I for one welcome our AI overlords!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2397</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 04:32:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Two Current Issues</title><description>We had far too much government overreach with the previous mob.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2396</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 02:41:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What is Morality?</title><description>I still think I'm right: morality is just an opinion.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2395</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:21:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Get Over It!</title><description>In our divided society, people are likely to make extremely unpleasant comments about politicians.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2393</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:45 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Bubbles</title><description>A major issue we have today is delusion, at least according to my latest theory.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2392</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:17:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Newspeak</title><description>If you see these words, there is a chance you are being exposed to gaslighting.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2391</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:08:12 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Celebrating Brilliance</title><description>It's time to get back to celebrating brilliance rather than mediocrity.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2390</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:57:47 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Embarrassing Nonsense</title><description>That might get the message across that we are sick of this embarrassing nonsense.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2389</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:26:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: All About Compromise</title><description>We then need a compromise so that Russia can stop the war.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2388</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:38:19 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Things are Better</title><description>You will see things are better than what we are often lead to believe.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2387</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:31:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Nice Conspiracy</title><description>It's a nice conspiracy, isn't it?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2386</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:40:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: We Need Trump and Musk</title><description>I wonder if Trump and Musk might like to visit here after they have finished sorting out America!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2385</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:40:37 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Pragmatic Libertarianism</title><description>Freedom is important. Maybe it's all that really matters.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2384</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:15:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Wrong and Dangerous</title><description>Never believe that all cultures are equal. That is both wrong and dangerous.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2381</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:47:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Between the Extremes</title><description>Maybe we are just doomed to alternate between the extremes.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2380</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:34:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Manufactured Outrage</title><description>We might be beginning to win some battles, but the war is far from over.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2378</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:19:15 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Avoid Microsoft</title><description>If you don't really like computers much you could make things a bit better for yourself.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2377</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:05:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unity Through Division</title><description>Sometimes hard decisions need to be made to make genuine progress.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2375</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:13:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Deranged Rants</title><description>Many of them are totally feral, unhinged, and totally irrational.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2374</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:55:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: So Unaware</title><description>You can make you own choice, but be aware.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2373</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:01:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Win for MAGA</title><description>So the US has chosen Trump, despite the massive forces against him.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2372</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:42:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Garbage</title><description>Democracy dies in darkness, especially when it is buried in garbage!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2371</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:31:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Chuck</title><description>He was arguably the most famous pilot in history.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2370</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:34:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Teach Skepticism</title><description>I am so skeptical I am even suspicious of myself!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2368</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:03:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Am I Woke?</title><description>If you gave a woke answer to a few you are probably OK.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2367</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:41:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Nice Versus True</title><description>Are nice fantasies better than hard truths? I don't think so.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2366</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:34:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: But is it Science?</title><description>Ask yourself this: is it really science?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2365</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:30:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An AI Apocalypse</title><description>I'm trying to put a positive spin on this, but it is going to be tough.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2364</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:25:18 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Support Religion!</title><description>I can see that the alternatives are often not good!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2363</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:04:19 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Confidence vs Competence</title><description>Forget confidence, give me competence instead!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2362</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:26:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Anti-BS Advice</title><description>You may find this post supports your efforts in telling BS from facts.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2361</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:21:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Stirring Up Trouble</title><description>Let's just get every view out there and fairly debate them.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2360</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:00:25 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Messenger</title><description>It's not the internet's fault. Don't blame the messenger for the message!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2359</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:40:14 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Advice to Police</title><description>Stop playing politics and get on with your real job.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2358</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:43:32 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Sack Them All!</title><description>Let's find all the corrupt and incompetent managers and sack them all!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2357</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:47:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Media vs Internet</title><description>I don't think the media will survive long unless they change their strategies.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2356</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Perfect Solutions</title><description>After all, there are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2355</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:12:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Global Zeitgeists</title><description>You might just have become a victim of the latest global zeitgeist.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2354</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:02:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Right Priorities</title><description>Seems like we have the right priorities. What could possibly go wrong?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2353</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:11:39 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Stop the Tribalism</title><description>They really need to stop the tribalism.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2352</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:56:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Even More Maori BS</title><description>I think I'm fully justified in calling this even more Maori BS!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2351</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:25:31 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Overton Window</title><description>Don't be too concerned if your opinions are currently unpopular.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2350</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:58:44 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Worse than Useless</title><description>I would genuinely rather pay them an unemployment benefit just to do nothing.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2349</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:56:54 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Omnicause</title><description>What do the following issues have in common...</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2348</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:17:38 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Thinking Happening</title><description>Reciting advertising slogans is not a great sign that any thinking is happening.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2346</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:18:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Right to Protest</title><description>Do they have the right to protest? Yes. Should they? Hell, no!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2345</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 03:03:43 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Wild Ride</title><description>As AI advances, it's going to be a wild ride!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2344</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 08:05:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Lie by Omission</title><description>There's a good reason for this: the media is corrupt.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2343</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 01:06:48 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Anomaly Hunting</title><description>As regular readers know, I don't always accept the consensus view.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2342</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 03:02:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Peak Woke?</title><description>All it really takes is some time and exposure to contrary views. All it really takes is free speech.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2341</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 06:54:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Fall of Rome</title><description>I'm afraid that we really might be seeing the demise of the greatest era in history.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2340</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:04:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who's In Control?</title><description>The big conspiracies I mentioned here might or might not be true.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2339</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:35:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Ask a Comedian</title><description>You want genuinely innovative ideas? Just ask a comedian!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2338</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:26:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Law's an Ass</title><description>If it was just an ass, I would be relatively happy!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2337</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:57:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: It's All About Status</title><description>Most human institutions, and most individuals, are very defined and affirmed by status.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2336</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:42:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Warbirds 2024</title><description>I have many random interests, several of them quite geeky.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2335</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:28:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: DEI must Die!</title><description>People get to do what they are naturally best at, and we get higher standards as a result.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2333</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:05:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Free Speech Equity</title><description>Let's see how long those sort of protests would last.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2330</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 06:27:45 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Bad Look</title><description>It might be legal. It might be practical. But it's a still a bad look.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2329</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:27:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Don't Have to Like It</title><description>That is their right, but I don't have to like it!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2328</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:03:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who's the Enemy?</title><description>It is the idea I reject, not the person.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2327</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:22:34 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Die TVNZ, Die!</title><description>I pay for them with my taxes! Die TVNZ, die!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2326</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:57:15 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Be Less Kind</title><description>Really, we need to be less kind!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2325</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:51:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Rescue Our Nation</title><description>We should rescue our national day, and our nation.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2324</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:27:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Mostly Useless</title><description>I'm not saying education is completely useless; just mostly useless!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2323</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:12:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Have We Found Aliens?</title><description>I'm not sure it has happened yet.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2322</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:37:02 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Maori BS</title><description>One thing we don't need is more Maori BS!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2321</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:12:49 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Left vs Right</title><description>As long as we keep away from the extremes on either side, we aren't doing too badly.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2320</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:15:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Newspeak</title><description>Look in the current affairs section of the library!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2319</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:23:23 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Cultural Relativism</title><description>There is one culture which is greatly superior to the other.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2318</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:14:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Decolonise Aotearoa?</title><description>Decolonise Aotearoa? Yeah, right!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2317</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:39:24 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: But Wait, There's More</title><description>Also note that I am not totally convinced by my own points here.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2316</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:18:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Outrageous Theory</title><description>I claim to be a pioneer in the new science of "simulation cosmology".</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2315</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:33:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Not Crazy Enough?</title><description>Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2314</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:38:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Big Ask for Some</title><description>Create a theory, test it, revise it, repeat.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2313</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:13:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Year Gone</title><description>Well, that's another year gone, I guess, so what's happened?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2311</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:50:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: TL;DR</title><description>Thanks to my readers and I hope you appreciate the new format.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2309</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:19:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Trust the Market</title><description>Markets have their problems, but the alternatives are much worse.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2308</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:34:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: State of the World</title><description>The world isn't perfect, but it is OK!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2307</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:24:51 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What Do I Want?</title><description>Think for yourself, instead of being told what to think.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2306</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:33:32 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Solutions</title><description>There are no solutions, just trade-offs.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2305</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:20:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: People or Parrots?</title><description>What are they: people or parrots?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2304</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:19:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: All Created Equal</title><description>You can have equity or you can have freedom.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2303</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:43:46 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: To Boldly Go</title><description>We need more boldness!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2302</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:29:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: That's a Fact</title><description>We can't prove that facts exist, but we should act like they do.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2301</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:54:56 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Pro, Max!</title><description>I usually buy myself one new major gadget each year.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2300</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:37:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Not Morally Equal</title><description>The two sides are not morally equal.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2298</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 02:23:51 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: ODT Chief Propagandists</title><description>Let's have a look at the cartoon and compare it to the facts.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2297</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:56:10 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Why Should We?</title><description>Let them go back to the pre-industrial age if they want to.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2296</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:58:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Choose Your Tyranny</title><description>So choose the least bad option, and choose your tyranny!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2295</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 01:38:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Climate Change BS</title><description>It's time for a better approach, and to forget about the climate change BS.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2294</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:52:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Scared to be Individuals</title><description>I think far too many people are scared to be individuals.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2292</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:19:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Blame Women!</title><description>Kindness is often the least kind attitude possible.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2291</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:20:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: About Your Computer 2</title><description>Just being broadly aware of these concepts is fine!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2290</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:21:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Victory and Microscopes</title><description>First, they fail to declare victory, then they get out the microscope!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2289</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 02:00:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: About Your Computer 1</title><description>I might start by discussing how devices communicate with other devices and the internet.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2288</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:26:49 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Love Conspiracies!</title><description>Saying something is a conspiracy is not the same as saying it is false.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2287</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:05:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: How to Fix Health</title><description>Maybe the most concerning thing about our country is the state of the health system.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2286</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:00:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: About Me and My Web Site</title><description>So that's my web site, which reflects my general interests.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2285</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:06:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: All Sides of the Story</title><description>I would prefer to evaluate them myself, instead of the biased and corrupt media doing it for me.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2284</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:31:12 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Answers to Your Questions</title><description>Claiming there is a god really gets you nowhere.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2283</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:58:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Hysterical Zeitgeist</title><description>Maybe you are part of the modern equivalent of a good old-fashioned witch burning!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2282</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:27:26 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What's Woke?</title><description>I have "gone to war" against the woke elements of society.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2281</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:30:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Problem with AI</title><description>I'm sorry, Bob, I'm afraid I can't do that</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2280</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:55:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Blame the Victim</title><description>There's no need to thank me for helping you feel like a victim.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2279</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:50:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Are We There Yet?</title><description>Ask yourself "are we there yet?"</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2278</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:36:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: OJB's Laws</title><description>Everything that is wrong with the world will suddenly make a lot more sense!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2277</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:34:39 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Awake to Woke</title><description>Maybe at one time, if you were "woke" that was something to be celebrated</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2276</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:07:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: In Defence of Computers</title><description>The computer industry could do better, but it has a lot to be proud of.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2275</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:28:05 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Words Have Power</title><description>Don't let them get away with it! Remember: words have power!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2274</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 07:26:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Expect More</title><description>He might be able to fool them, but I expect more.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2273</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 08:45:05 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Everyday (Bad) Design</title><description>The next time you make a mistake using a computer, remember that it's probably not your fault.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2272</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 06:45:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What About Hitler?</title><description>She, rather inevitably given Godwin's Law, asked "what about Hitler?"</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2271</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:05:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Minimise that Evil</title><description>When things do go badly wrong, those responsible should take the blame.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2270</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:48:18 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What is a Woman?</title><description>Alternative news sources do offer some balance.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2269</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:46:23 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Admit You're Wrong</title><description>Don't apologise; just admit you're wrong!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2268</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:03:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Rise of BS Jobs</title><description>Something needs to change to reverse the rise of BS jobs.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2267</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:06:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The One Percent</title><description>Give the majority in those controversial groups the benefit of the doubt.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2266</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:59:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Mindless Hysteria</title><description>But mindless hysteria isn't positive.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2265</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:35:56 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Depoliticise Teaching</title><description>We need to depoliticise teaching.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2264</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:58:48 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Great in Theory</title><description>Easy to understand, but frustrating to live with!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2262</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:06:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Chat GP-PC-T</title><description>Is AI a dystopian or a utopian technology? Who knows?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2261</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Tribalism Revisited</title><description>Most people aren't members of a tribe as the result of deep consideration.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2260</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:59:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Another Day</title><description>It really is getting to the point where something has to change.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2259</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:16:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Misinformation Conspiracy</title><description>I think this conspiracy is at least as good as many others I have come across.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2258</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:20:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Am I Extreme?</title><description>Most likely they're the extremists.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2257</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:24:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Media BS?</title><description>There does seem to be some pushback against this toxic ideology.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2256</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:39:34 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Postmodernist Insanity</title><description>All ideas, especially incredibly stupid ones, have their own natural life.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2255</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:48:53 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: OJB.NZ v2.0</title><description>Thanks for visiting and enjoy the new site!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2253</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:47:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Trust the Science?</title><description>When you are asked to "trust the science" you need to be very careful.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2252</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:29:26 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: JRE versus CNN</title><description>If anything tells us more about the relative relevance of old an new media it is this.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2251</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 04:52:25 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Hysterical Nonsense</title><description>We need to be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2250</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:25:57 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Ugh, Commerce</title><description>If Bono can do it, then everyone should be able to.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2249</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:50:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Evolution from Junk</title><description>Think about it. Evolution is inevitable.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2247</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:27:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unsubtle Propaganda</title><description>Because I believe in free speech I don't want to stop the types of programs I criticised.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2246</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:27:46 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Natural Ignorance</title><description>Which is worse: artificial intelligence or natural ignorance?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2244</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:50:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Swinging</title><description>Whatever else happens in the world of politics, swings to the left and right will continue.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2243</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:59:53 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Get Thee Hence!</title><description>Get ye hence, foul creature!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2242</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:42:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Group Identity</title><description>We should all be able just to be ourselves.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2241</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:46:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Creative Work</title><description>People should be doing stuff they want to do and would do without being paid.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2240</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:10:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Mavericks are OK</title><description>The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2239</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 08:31:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Party's Over!</title><description>I think most people would agree that our political systems work adequately at best.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2237</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 01:36:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Thoughts on Monarchy</title><description>I'm no royalist and I don't like the concept of monarchy.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2236</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 01:03:29 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Why Go to Space?</title><description>Why are there no more dinosaurs around today?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2235</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:46:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Facts vs Feelings</title><description>Facts don't care about your feelings!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2234</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:29:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Modern Religions</title><description>It would be so much easier if people stopped looking for a new religion.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2233</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:09:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Self-Awareness</title><description>Politicians and managers need to be more self-aware.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2232</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:23:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: About the Cloud</title><description>No doubt many people who use computers have heard about the cloud.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2231</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:47:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What About Hydrogen?</title><description>A friend recently asked me to write a blog post about hydrogen.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2230</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:48:17 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: It Got Me!</title><description>Even when I'm sick, I'm still keen on a good rant!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2229</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 01:28:49 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Serenity, Courage, Wisdom</title><description>Being idealistic is fine, if you truly believe in something.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2228</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 05:31:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Free Speech Quotes</title><description>We need more free speech on these issues, not less.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2227</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:41:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Controversy!</title><description>That's about as controversial as I can get on this subject.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2226</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:01:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Control Freaks and Sycophants</title><description>Overbearing control is likely the worst thing possible.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2224</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:52:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Misinformation Everywhere</title><description>Forget about the words misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2222</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 03:25:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Expert Opinion</title><description>The truth, as always, is somewhere between the extremes.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2221</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 10:02:48 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Radical Ideologies</title><description>All ideas should be open to question.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2220</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unpopular Opinions</title><description>I've probably upset enough people already.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2219</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 07:51:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Blame Yourself</title><description>You can't fix a problem until you understand its source.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2218</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 02:04:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A New Religion</title><description>We shouldn't expect these people to be rational.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2217</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 09:42:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Celebrating Success</title><description>The most successful people really don't care too much what lesser individuals think.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2216</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 10:22:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: On-Line Bullying</title><description>We have to look at all the facts, and we need to look at the good and the bad.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2215</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:00:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: How to Fix Education</title><description>Education is too important to leave it under the control of politicians.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2214</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:06:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Let Musk Fix It</title><description>Fixing free speech isn't easy, but it has to be done.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2213</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 01:13:49 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Update</title><description>There's always something worth commenting on!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2212</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 05:05:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Criticising Our Leaders</title><description>So can we please get over this silliness?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2211</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:05:11 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Ten Commandments</title><description>3/10 Needs improvement!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2210</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:30:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Stupid and Hysterical</title><description>At the moment everything is a crisis, even when it isn't.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2209</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:17:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Democracy Isn't Working</title><description>It's time for us to try to make the least bad system even less bad than it is now.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2208</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:26:59 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Protest Reactions</title><description>No surprises there; no wonder we have protests!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2207</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:06:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Grumpy Old Men</title><description>No wonder we're grumpy!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2206</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:43:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Listen to the Crazies</title><description>Ardern isn't a real leader, and neither is Trudeau.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2205</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:55 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Something to Ponder</title><description>I still think this gives us something to ponder.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2204</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Slippery Slope</title><description>Sometimes the slope really is slippery!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2203</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:26:19 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Free Speech Tweets</title><description>That's a small price to pay for supporting free speech.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2202</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:56:52 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Hope I'm Wrong</title><description>Maybe the only thing that is inevitable is failure. I hope I'm wrong.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2201</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:46:56 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Theory and Practice</title><description>Always be skeptical of theory without practice.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2200</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:44:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: MSM vs JRE</title><description>The MSM are out of touch, but they are so out of touch they can't even see it.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2199</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:43:34 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unpopular Leaders</title><description>It seems that all leaders will become unpopular eventually, and that's the way it should be.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2198</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:42:33 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: This is a Hijacking!</title><description>Do you use words dishonestly like I have described above?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2197</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:41:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Consequences</title><description>Do we have enough freedom, including freedom of speech?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2196</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:40:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Celebrate Your Way</title><description>It's simple, really: just celebrate your way.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2194</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:36:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Is Truth True?</title><description>I think this is one claim that Jordan Peterson makes which is utterly absurd.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2193</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:35:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Have Changed</title><description>I have been looking back over some of my old political blog posts.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2192</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:34:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Best of Times</title><description>We need to cut the hysteria and start thinking logically.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2191</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:33:23 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Gates Module</title><description>Could you send me a Mac please. I need it to help me take over the world...</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2190</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:31:46 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: They're All Biased!</title><description>Go and read some of those right sources for some balanced perspective.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2189</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:30:32 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Steak for Babies!</title><description>Mark Twain was a very accurate observer of the human condition.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2188</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:55:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No I in Team</title><description>I think this represents one of the great defining characteristics of our age.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2187</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:53:33 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Global Goals, Part 2</title><description>Achieving the goals is not straightforward then, is it?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2186</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:52:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Global Goals, Part 1</title><description>The real problem is corrupt governments, irrational religions, and ignorant populations.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2184</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:48:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Better Society</title><description>Bob relaxed as the headset began playing soothing music.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2182</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:45:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Embarrassing Stupidity</title><description>Not only does it not help, but it actively hinders real progress.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2181</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:43:29 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Listen to Experts?</title><description>Like most things in life, the answer to the question isn't just yes or no.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2180</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:41:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Political Coercion</title><description>What right does one person have to force his or her political views on another person?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2160</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:19:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Those Young Idiots</title><description>I know all this, because I used to be a young idiot myself.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2159</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:25:29 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Another Conspiracy</title><description>The thing some people don't understand about conspiracies is that they are sometimes true.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2158</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:28:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Mask Madness</title><description>Looks like we are all in line to be inflicted with more mask madness!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2157</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:11:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Ten Years Without Steve</title><description>Who knows what he might have come up with.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2156</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:13:23 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Physics of God</title><description>The book as a whole just can't be taken seriously.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2155</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:00:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: See More</title><description>Compare this with the simplistic platitudes uttered by most other politicians...</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2153</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:36:59 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Morally Repugnant</title><description>The truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2152</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:04:59 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Problem of Terrorism</title><description>Next question: what is the cause of terrorism?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2151</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:53:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More About Rules</title><description>Disobey laws if you think it is the right think to do.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2150</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:03:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Rules of the Regime</title><description>So I intend to continue to follow the rules which suit me.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2149</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:15:44 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Team of 5 Million</title><description>We are not a team of 5 million, and I hope we never will be.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2148</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:07:08 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Blame Game</title><description>Ascribing a single cause to a complex political situation is naive.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2147</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:12:28 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Dealing With Hate Speech</title><description>Hate speech has recently become a significant subject here in New Zealand.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2146</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:19:37 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Really Big Question</title><description>Truth is more important, and that might be stranger than any theories we currently have!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2145</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2021 23:01:33 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Real Catch 22</title><description>Maybe we just have to get used to being lead by those who are least capable.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2144</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:13:29 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: In Defence of Science</title><description>Science shouldn't be politicised, but increasingly it is.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2143</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:02:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Another Cult</title><description>Maybe we are doomed to be ruled by cults.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2142</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:54:33 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Boys and Their Toys</title><description>Oh yes, the boys and their toys.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2141</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:24:59 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Weakness Isn't Strength</title><description>Despite the Orwellian attitudes of some, weakness isn't strength!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2140</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:15:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Hate Speech Again</title><description>It seems today that the truth really doesn't matter much any more.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2139</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:52:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Team Player</title><description>Teamwork has its place, but it is highly over-rated!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2138</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 10:37:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Political Diversity</title><description>We need more political diversity around the world.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2137</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2021 08:12:02 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Anti-Microsoft Rant</title><description>I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but that isn't why I am ranting about them here.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2136</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:59:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Talking About Race</title><description>Is emphasising the scientific method a bad thing?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2135</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:26:53 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Is This Fair?</title><description>So is this fair? Is it good? And is this really progress?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2134</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:49:13 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Latest from Apple</title><description>Do many people care about this geeky technical stuff?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2133</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:23:02 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: My Opinions Are OK</title><description>Opinions are OK, but not all opinions are equal.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2132</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:14:11 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Internet Again</title><description>The internet must be used with respect and skill to be genuinely useful.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2130</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 23:08:11 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Time to Down-Shift</title><description>There are a couple of reasons I like Russell; one superficial and the other a bit deeper.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2129</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 09:50:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What About Marxism?</title><description>Maybe capitalism is the worst economic system, apart from all the rest</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2128</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 06:41:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Road to Hell</title><description>The road to Hell really is paved with good intentions. And with bad delusions.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2127</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 05:57:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Apple Bugs</title><description>When either Windows or Linux is working perfectly, it is still horrible!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2126</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 11:10:49 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Doers and Stoppers</title><description>Yeah, even lawyers can be useful some times.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2125</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 08:32:29 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Grow Up!</title><description>Much of our knowledge today comes from well-respected areas of science.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2124</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:55:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: God and Suffering</title><description>It looks like we need to continue to cope with suffering.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2123</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:47:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Outside the Box</title><description>I often hear the opinion that we need more people thinking outside the box.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2122</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:39:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Gell-Mann Revisited</title><description>What exactly do we mean by "the closest planet"?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2121</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:19:44 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Humans Are Awesome</title><description>I still have to say this: humans are awesome!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2119</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Bigger Perspective</title><description>Our only hope of progress really comes from rogue individuals.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2118</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:25:34 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Mea Maxima Culpa</title><description>My basic philosophy for life involves two major elements: freedom and truth.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2117</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 08:27:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Twenty Years of X</title><description>Recently Apple's operating system, macOS, had its 20th birthday.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2116</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:39:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Two Sides</title><description>Let's hear both sides of every issue, no matter how controversial they might be.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2114</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:41:24 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Am I Alt-Right?</title><description>I am well known for my on-line commentary and debates.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2113</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:23:34 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Royalty Versus Celebrity</title><description>Royalty versus celebrity. Which of these is the more disgusting?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2112</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 04:43:21 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Golden Rule</title><description>Those who have the gold should not be making the rules!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2111</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2021 23:06:25 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: My Brother's Keeper</title><description>Something needs to change. But am I my brother's keeper?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2110</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Trendy or True?</title><description>So I say, beware of the zeitgeist.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2109</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:21:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Not Really Free</title><description>No charge is not the same as no cost. Someone has to pay.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2108</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 07:44:41 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: So Naive</title><description>Many people would have just let this pass, but...</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2107</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:31:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Some Scientists</title><description>Feynman is becoming a real pain the ass.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2106</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:33:46 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Twas Ever Thus</title><description>Sounds like things haven't changed much.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2105</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:33:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Big Picture</title><description>There is a fundamental difference between science and other fields of human endeavour.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2104</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:09:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Profound Question</title><description>Is there (intelligent) life elsewhere in the universe?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2103</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:32:19 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Best and Worst of 2020</title><description>I guess I should do some sort of summary of my personal opinions of the highs and lows.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2096</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:02:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Explaining the Unexplained</title><description>My interim conclusion that common paranormal phenomena are all invalid is completely justified.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2095</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:07:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Big Bang?</title><description>The Big Bang is a fact, by any reasonable interpretation of the data.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2094</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:32:38 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who Wants That?</title><description>I tend to not use products from the most prominent companies.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2093</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 01:22:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Best Software for Mac</title><description>The best software for your Mac isn't necessarily what you might think.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2092</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:20:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who Are My Heroes?</title><description>I don't apologise for choosing old white guys as my heroes.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2091</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:47:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: We Do Our Best</title><description>If what I just experienced is their best, I would hate to see their worst!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2088</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:40:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Paint by Numbers</title><description>The author compares managers to Soviet bureaucrats.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2086</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:48:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Different Guy Now</title><description>He hasn't been Cat Stevens for a long time, you know. </description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2085</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:50:47 GMT</pubDate><category>Religion</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Mass Hysteria</title><description>Problems need to be treated seriously and rationally, not hysterically!</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2084</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:44:47 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Never That Simple</title><description>Peter Schiff sounds very convincing when he is in full rant mode.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2083</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 08:51:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Cruel to be Kind</title><description>Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2081</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:13:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Do We Need Lockdowns?</title><description>We should just ask this question: do we need lockdowns?</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2080</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:14:19 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Four Meaningful Cartoons</title><description>More frivolous forms of expression sometimes hold a deeper meaning than you might expect.</description><link>http://ojb.co.nz/Owen2/Blog/BlogPage.php?code=2079</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:04:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item></channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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