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Commentaries and magazine articles I have written have appeared in the following publications.

Australian Doctor

"Limited only by the laws of physics"

Issues
Issues

MamaMia

ABC Science

The end of the world. Really? (ABC)

The Dubbo Weekender

Needle point

Oberon Review

Articles published on the Gebesse blog
The blog was retired when I retired.
(This is an edited list. Some articles (like client newsletters) could be left behind.

Bring on the NBN (23/4/2012)
Dealing with YouTube (24/4/2012)
Beware the SMEG. That's a winning strategy. (25/4/2012)
Intimidation by morons. But it doesn't work. (27/4/2012)
A Room With A View (28/4/2012)
Materiality - saving 0.000001% (1/5/2012)
Psychological testing (2/5/2012)
Thoughts about multi-level marketing (19/5/2012)
How not to sell a car (28/5/2012)
Back to the dumbphone? (30/5/2012)
Conical marketing - the next wave (22/6/2012)
Securing your wireless network (26/6/2012)
Product review - Eye-Fi card for digital cameras (27/6/2012)
Product review - Supplier-provided disk repair programs. (30/6/2012)
Product review - Free Stuff (4/7/2012)
Travelling with ACT! (13/7/2012)
Things that should be ignored (24/4/2013)
Mail merge with ACT! (19/6/2013)
Exporting from ACT! to Excel (23/7/2013)
Resurrected scammers (5/9/2013)

Deadbeats (16/12/2013)
Sometimes we geriatrics know things (2/4/2014)
Security experts. Right! (20/4/2014)
Should you worry about Windows XP? (25/4/2014)
Should you worry about Heartbleed? (25/4/2014)
Let me do things my way, Apple. Please. (26/4/2014)
Save me from amateurs. (29/4/2014)
Installing ACT! 6 in Windows 7 (4/5/2014)
Installing ACT! 6 in Windows 8 (7/5/2014)
Banks! How we love to hate them. And why. (26/5/2014)
My mobile office (7/7/2014)
No, I don't want to get a Mac! (24/8/2014)
Product review - SATA disk case (28/8/2014)
Product review - Acer Aspire E11 laptop (28/8/2014)
More amateurs (19/9/2014)
When the client doesn't know any better (25/9/2014)
That's not how email works! (20/11/2014)
Windows 10 (31/7/2015)
Getting your business on the Internet (24/6/2016)
Windows 10 Redux (30/6/2016)

Articles on my personal blog
(This is a edited list. Things that don't matter any more were left out.)
Introduction to skepticism (6/4/2012)
Creating Distrust with Multi-level Marketing (7/4/2012)
Can atheism be called a dangerous idea? (8/4/2012)
A Diamond has bad luck (8/4/2012)
The Global Atheist Convention (20/4/2012)
Meryl Dorey is threatened? In her own mind, perhaps. (20/4/2012)
Tim Bolen joins the world of fairies (22/4/2012)
Like talking to a rock, I try to debate creationists (22/4/2012)
Is "Moron" a chemical element? (23/4/2012)
American Airlines gets it right (24/4/2012)
Intimidation by morons. But it doesn't work. (27/4/2012)
How many people do those doctors kill? (29/4/2012)
Memo to Meryl Dorey at the Australian Vaccination Network (29/4/2012)
Psychological testing (1/5/2012)
ACCC tackles Homeopathy Plus! Whooping Cough claims (4/5/2012)
The new physics (6/5/2012)
Keeping your skepticism out of court - Me at SkeptiCamp Sydney 2011 (8/5/2012)
Give me my word back. (9/5/2012)
Theft of taxpayers' money (10/5/2012)
Speaking of references and citations � (11/5/2012)
Pretending to be something you're not - Meryl Dorey's new blog (11/5/2012)
Of meridians and mice (13/5/2012)
Drug tales (16/5/2012)
A hard day at the office (23/5/2012)
Not quite "the" conversation (23/5/2012)
Experimenting on skeptics (27/5/2012)
Almost unimaginable filth (3/6/2012)
DTaP - Don't Torture a Puppy. (8/6/2012)
Science as she is spoke (11/6/2012)
Free speech breaks out in Anti-vax Land? (19/6/2012)
Fifteen advances in medicine. What has SCAM done? (21/6/2012)
That dreadful carbon tax (29/6/2012)
Taking one for the team - a night out with Scientology (5/7/2012)
No, it's not the "God Particle" (8/7/2012)
Psychic detectives are scum (14/7/2012)
Burzynski's "research" - Part 1 (21/7/2012)
Burzynski's "research" - Part 2 (21/7/2012)
What's in a name: The anti-vaxxers reach a shocking new low (27/7/2012)
See Shuzi. See Shuzi run. (7/8/2012)
Vaccines (16/8/2012)
Who has the backbone to stop this? (26/8/2012)
How to attack freedom of speech. (9/9/2012)
Let's be balanced! (6/10/2012)
Polio vaccination - thank you very much! (6/10/2012)
I try not to know what just ain't so (8/11/2012)
MindBodySpirit Festival 2012 (18/11/2012)
Genetic modification (23/11/2012)
The anti-vaccination lobby (26/11/2012)
Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton's Demon. (30/11/2012)
Chiropractic - quackery to the core (10/12/2012)
Some good news about the Australian Vaccination Network. At last. (15/12/2012)
Where can I buy food with extra gluten? (3/8/2013)
Never let a chance go by. (17/8/2013)
Let's spit on the memory of a great man (24/8/2013)
Liver Transplant (5/9/2013)
Free speech advocate hates free speech (6/9/2013)
Meryl Dorey begging for money for lawyers (2010) (7/9/2013)
The AVN lies about vaccines and aborted foetuses (8/9/2013)
The AVN shows sympathy for women with breast cancer (9/9/2013)
Meryl Dorey: Free speech hypocrite (10/9/2013)
Meryl Dorey and the rape analogy (11/9/2013)
Defending fraud: Meryl Dorey and Andrew Wakefield (12/9/2013)
Meryl Dorey condones child abuse (13/9/2013)
Meryl Dorey lies about SIDS and SBS. And me. (14/9/2013)
The AVN - Lies, deception and threats (15/9/2013)
Meryl misquotes - how unusual (16/9/2013)
Media Release: Meryl Dorey and the AVN - Another loss in court (16/9/2013)
Bitcoin Bollocks (16/11/2013)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? (5/4/2014)
Talk is cheap, but not always free (19/4/2014)
I go trolling (21/4/2014)
Let me do things my way, Apple. Please. (26/4/2014)
A different debate (6/5/2014)
Doing something useful (13/9/2014)
Friday Shopping Poetry (11/1/2016)
Oberon's safe children (25/2/2016)
A fun day out (26/3/2016)
Well, that was an experience (11/4/2016)
Today's Oberon adventures (7/5/2016)
Driving in the country (7/5/2016)
Census paranoia (4/8/2016)

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