Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Medication Yo Yo

Just at the moment, this is how my life looks:
Start: Feeling fine, thanking God for the wonder of Cold and Flu tablets
Couple of hours later: Feeling the cold and flu tablets wear off. Headache starts returning, start feeling colder, forehead starts feeling warmer. Think to myself: we’ll see how long we can hold out before [...]

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Australia’s Heart Transplant

HUNDREDS of detainees could be released into the community under radical changes to Australia’s mandatory detention policy to be announced today.
Under the changes, only people who pose a risk to the community will be detained, The Age understands. Others will be released into the community while their cases are assessed.
This is a significant departure from [...]

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China steals internet crown from US – theage.com.au

China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
China steals internet crown from US – web – Technology – theage.com.au.
This is made more impressive by the fact that the internet addressing system currently [...]

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Blog quote of the week by far

Funny how the church has conspired to encourage Christians to ignore and explain away all the stuff that might mean we have to change our lives beyond the internal religious self-advancement project. I’m not sure we are even reading the same pages. We might talk as if the liberal’s doubts of the miraculous [...]

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Listening To Angry Atheists

It’s been an interesting thing to see how the Catholic Church’s “World Youth Day” (perhaps something of a misnomer given that it’s pretty much about Catholics, and runs for about 5 days) has brought out the angry atheists (as distinct from the calm atheists) into the opinion sections of the newspapers and blogs. The temptation [...]

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