Monthly Archives: December 2006

Top 6 Top Sixes for a Top ‘06

In the spirit of retrospectiveness, the season, and my “55405″ post from about this time last year – as well as an attempt to participate in the ProBlogger Group Writing Project, here are a collection of Top Sixes – six of them in fact, for the past year. Most of them are probably just in [...]

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Finally some recognition…

The list of things I have to do before I die just got one item shorter. After years of toiling without recognition from the print media internationally, Time Magazine has named their “Person of the Year” – me. Or more specifically, “you”. From the article:
“Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.”

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Back

I’ve been up to Sydney for the past few days with work, and am overwhelmed with busy-ness as we get closer to Christmas and end of year, and all that sort of thing. Still a little bemused at which posts receive comments: I certainly didn’t expect a reaction of the magnitude that I received to [...]

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Friday is for friends

The post title is stolen from Scot McKnight over at the Jesus Creed blog, and it’s a little bit misleading, because it would be a slight mistruth to call all these people friends, some of them I only know through what they write. So this is a posting of semi-random quotes from what I’m being [...]

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A Particularly Good Day Not To Be English

Shane Warne is a poet with the cricket ball. Mike Hussey can do no wrong. Most days I’m glad that I’m Australian, not English, but today it is particularly nice.
How could it be? England falls apart – theage.com.au

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