If there is no global warming and we don't do anything - no problem.
If there is no global warming and we act as if there is, then we will incur some unnecessary costs (but probably improve the planet).
If there is global warming and we don't do anything - we're finished.
If there is global warming and we act to combat it - we stand a chance to survive.
Therefore 25% of nothing.
50% chance of improving the planet.
25% chance of extinction.
No brainer!

The consultant's dilemma: when does a client become such a pain in the neck that you have to tell him to bugger off because it's just not worth it?

I'm open to any suggestions!

I recently returned from Vietnam. Very impressive place considering what it has emerged from in its recent history.

Leaving the noise, dirty streets and unbelievable motor bike traffic of Ho Chi Mihn City (certainly a place I don't need to return to in a hurry), we travelled to Hoi An. Very pleasant but sadly, we were the first guests in the hotel after the typhoon from which the town was still recovering. I would go back again though. Coincidentally a work colleague was on the last flight out of Hoi An before the Typhoon hit.

If you've seen the Forbidden City in Beijing, then Hue is a bit of a disappointment. However, they are actively refurbishing the site and in a few years, if they do it well, it should be quite an experience.

Loved Hanoi. They say it's the French/European influence: tress, irregular streets, wonderful buildings, great food - is quite true. Although very busy (you take your life in your hands crossing the street), it is "quieter" that Ho Chi Mihn City - but not by much.

Travelled by overnight train to Sapa on the Chinese border. Interesting but I don't recommend it for a 2 day visit - even if you travel in a sleeper. You need at least 3 days there - just to recover from the train trip. And watch our for the goats - my wife was headbutted into a ditch and then the goat tried to mount her. Was it merely being over friendly or did it bear a grudge?

Had the sobering experience of visiting the Hanoi Hilton (i.e. jail run by the French). No wonder the Vietnamese hate the French more than they hate the Americans. The French were brutal and arrogant colonialists- true arseholes. Somethings never change.

I like Kevin Rudd - no I don't L.O.V.E Kevin Rudd, but I do like him. He is refreshing - doesn't take any crap from the unions and certainly doesn't like the Right very much either.

He's intelligent and I think sincere. Certainly he may have higher aspirations for a global platform - but so what? Who hasn't dreamed of greater things. Kevin though, has had the experience and the drive to try to make it happen. Good luck to him.

The stuff I don't like though include his religiosity (but at least he doesn't ram it down your throat like our friend Tony Abbot); his deferral of the Republic; his apparent unwillingness to redirect funds that are going to the privileged and give them to the underprivileged (e.g. schools). Despite that, he has done a lot of good.

Part of the good that he has done is save us from the Liberal hypocrites - for the time being anyway. What a miserable lot of wealth-focussed, elitist, lying, opportunists.

On religion however, as I've previously written, I don't believe that someone who believes in the concept of god is rational - or should I state that I acknowledge that they are selectively rational. They believe in a fairy story when it suits them and then trust only the evidence in another situation (also when it suits them). Not that I think that religious people are bad, because they're not, but that they are misguided.

All the good that is done in the name of a god can equally be done in the name of one's fellow Man.

Since my blog started, I've surprisingly had a growing number of visitors. None however, have contributed their comments. I suspect that my posts to date have either not been contentious enough, or because I've been trying to remain politically correct, not incensed anyone enough for them to want to abuse me.

Ok. Time to be honest. From now on I'll be as frank as my judgement allows - probably up to the point of avoiding a law suit.