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Peter Nixon
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Friday, 31 January 2003
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Strange fruit. The true story of the last mass lynching in America is a chilling whodunit, but the legacy of vigilante attacks on blacks continues beyond the history books.
[Salon.com]
12:35:04 AM 
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The State of the Union: Frightened. President Bush did his best to scare the bejesus out of his audience Tuesday to make his case for war. And afterward, he was probably the only person to get a good night's sleep.
[Salon.com]
12:25:46 AM
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Leon Wieseltier. "No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
12:19:37 AM
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Thursday, 30 January 2003
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Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Saturday, 25 January 2003
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Today in Adelaide it was 44 degrees Celsius, the hottest day for 21 years. We are in the middle of the Tour Down Under, where the European riders have come from one of the coldest winters in years. They are doing well though.
My day in the heat was an outdoor gig at the Tour Down Under playing with the band big shed.
Shocker of a day, but fortunately we were at Snapper Point, south of Adelaide, where for the whole day there was only an hour without an offshore breeze. Still stinking though.
11:18:34 PM
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Clarke and Dawe on war footing
[ABC News]
John Clarke and Brian Dawe conduct hilarious bogus interviews. In this one Clarke plays the Australian Prime Minister John Howard discussing his plans to support the militant Bush.
6:20:58 PM
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The Lost Cosmonauts: "One day in early 1961, weeks before Yuri Gagarin's epic space flight, instead of the usual beeping tones which they had become accustomed to hear, they were startled by a sound which signaled a new chapter in the history of mankind: there, in the listening center of "Torre Bert", these two young students heard, clearly and unequivocally, the beat of a failing heart and the last gasping breaths of a dying cosmonaut." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Read the comments on this one. There is a fairly confident rebuttal.
1:41:15 AM
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Friday, 24 January 2003
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Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
[Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
11:13:31 AM
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Wednesday, 22 January 2003
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Peace goes mainstream. In frigid conditions, thousands -- from 30,000 to 200,000, depending on the source -- show up in Washington, and Middle America outnumbers the radical fringe. [Salon.com]
1:27:02 AM
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Just got back from the first stage of this year's Tour Down Under, and a very interesting and controversial first stage it was.
Beginning with a short lived breakaway, a second attack was more successful, staying away for most of the 25 laps. The Australian Nick Gates did little work, but for a reason. I think he was waiting to see how successful the break would be; either he could go for it, or if it looked like nearly being brought back he could work to make sure it was, allowing his team, Lotto-Domo, to set up his countryman Robbie McEwen for victory.
That is in fact what nearly happened, although McEwen came across the line third, with Baden Cooke second, and Graeme Brown first; all Ozzies. Under protest Brown was relegated to the back of the peleton giving Cook the win. In the video Brown's interference with Cook seemed pretty severe.
12:59:22 AM
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Tuesday, 21 January 2003
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Tuesday, 14 January 2003
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Sunday, 12 January 2003
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I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. -- Dave Barry [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes]
8:49:29 AM
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It's been a while since I've posted here, for three reasons.
First, I've been busy.
Second, as far as I can tell I'm the only mug who reads this stuff.
And third, I replaced the hard drive which contained all my applications and Radio UserLand is very fussy about file paths. I had three choices.
There is a utility which rebuilds the filepaths.
I couldn't find it.
I could reinstall the program. This would involve making the changes to templates and themes and such which would not be difficult, but would be time consuming and tedious.
So I just renamed my hard drive to match the old name.
Seems to have done the trick.
8:38:13 AM
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