topicalhuman.com

Yes, I have moved to stephenhamilton.wordpress.com. For a few different reasons (all of them good reasons) I’ve decided to discontinue this site at present. However I can be found at my new site, on Twitter (@steviehamilton), or LinkedIn.

Please take a look at the new site - it is still in its formative stages, but I plan to be posting there quite regularly. Don’t forget to update your RSS reader if that is how you keep tabs on me.

See you around the corner!

I recently had the fantastic experience on driving a V8 offroad race car. The car was impressive, the experience was exhilarating and the blokes who helped me out with this at Offroad Rush were good fun too. I received a gift voucher for Offroad Rush as a wedding present from my mates Chris, Clint and Andy. It was awesome. I hope to be back again sometime soon.

To top this off, my beautiful wife and I are heading to Fiji later this week for my brother-in-law’s wedding. I’m excited!

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Now playing: Green Day - Whatsername
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My sister Abbey gave birth to a healthy little girl on Saturday night - Hannah Marie Diaz. She’s a chubby little baby, but darn cute!

Yay!

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Now playing: The Ramones - Babysitter
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I’ve been casually interested for a while in the notion of environmentally-friendly, energy efficient houses. I’m not in a position to be building a house, but I like the idea that if I was in such a position, I could build just such a house. I’ve also often thought that there could be a business opportunity in this.

Since changing my career last year and getting into the building industry, I have both become more interested, and less excited in this idea. As I now work in this industry, in theory I’m much closer to being able to learn what one would need to know to embark on this kind of project. But having worked in the building industry for a short while now, I am also getting an idea of just how difficult this kind of project would be.

Scott Adams reminded me of this with his recent post on the same topic. It is sad that there appears to be no real demand for green homes. And from my small experience, I have to agree with this assessment.

I also agree that the biggest issue is that there is so much FUD surrounding this topic, people just give up. ‘Tis a shame.

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Now playing: Green Day - Hitchin’ A Ride
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Yes, I’m back. Likely to still be posting lightly for a while, but we’ve finally gotten the internet connected at home.

It’s funny how not having it for 3 months or so makes you realise how much you need it, but also how much time you can waste on it. I’m going to be minimising much of the superfluous stuff (which includes posting here sometimes), and getting on with things that really matter. Speaking of which, I’m off to the Gym now with my lovely wife. Ciao!

I’m back from the honeymoon (had a wonderful time, thank you), but still going to be blogging lightly for a little while I’d imagine.

Went to see John Fogerty (with Don McLean supporting) at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night - good times!

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Now playing: John Fogerty - Born On The Bayou
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I’m getting married on Saturday. Therefore, I’ll probably not be posting here, or anywhere else, for a good while.

Yay!

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Now playing: The Screaming Tribesmen - Psychotic Reaction
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Wired.com has a great article on Autism/Aspergers, and how some people with these conditions are challenging the scientific community to come up with a better categorization for these conditions, rather than it being a mental disorder or, worse, retardation.

It’s obviously a touchy subject for the people with this condition, and the scientific/medical types. I think this article also nicely touches on the concerns for the families of Autistic/Aspergers people. Worth a read if you’re interested in this subject.

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This morning, I was looking through my RSS feeds, and in particular was looking at the BoingBoing feed. There was an article there about a leaked Pentagon document drafted for the President which stated that if the USA didn’t start taking Global warming seriously there was going to be major global upheaval by the year 2020 (this was the gist of it as I remember…you’ll see why I can’t link or be more specific below).

As this was something I was interested in, but didn’t have the time to read it immediately, I opened the link in a new tab, so I could read it later.

However when I went to read it, all I had was a ‘404′ error. But I knew I wasn’t imagining this, as the browser still had the address for the post: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/23/pentagon-to-bush-cli.html (I am still getting the ‘404′ error).

So what happened? Was the post pulled? If so, why? Has big brother gotten involved? Perhaps it is something more benign, like BoingBoing’s CMS throwing up old articles (a Google search indicates that this has happened before, as recently as 2006), or am I just an idiot who has missed something really obvious? I’d love to know.

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Now playing: Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (12″ Remix Version)
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I’ve rather haphazardly followed the progress of the Tesla Electric Car, and this is the latest installment of that line of thought.

(Yes, I badly want one!)

TreeHugger recently had an article about the first one to roll off the production line. Obviously, ramping up production is a big challenge for the company - they apparently have well over 1,000 ordered. And at approximately US$100,000 each, they have lots of incentive to do so.

However, Robert Scoble has had the extreme pleasure of getting a ride in the very same car. It sounds awesome! And not to be sneezed at is Scoble’s observation that “…the Tesla only costs about three dollars to “fill up” with an electric charge that’ll last you more than 200 miles. Let’s put it this way, my Saturn only goes about 20 miles on gasoline that costs that much.”

Sounds Awesome!

[Bonus Link] Treehugger has another interesting post on the ongoing love affair with big, big, mostly stupid cars.

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