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Shoebox

On Saturday I took a look at a flat just down the street. One bedroom, and at the rock bottom price of $105 a week. Okay, so I really want two bedrooms, one for use as a home-office, but the location and price seemed pretty good. At least, the location seemed pretty good, and for  ... [More]

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Oi!

Well, my wife and I are looking at a trial separation. There, that got your attention, didn’t it. A bit of soap like this should bump up the page hits on my diary. We’re still on good terms, but the unresolved issues have been piling up for a while. So now we’re working out the  ... [More]

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TV

A history lesson: Patrick Stewart with hair!

Before he baldly went where no man has gone before – Patrick Stewart with hair, in "Clavdivs" We’ve been having a bit of a video history lesson in the last few days. We’re slowly but surely working our way through the mammoth epic "I, Claudius", better known to anyone who’s seen it as "Clavdivs". It’s  ... [More]

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The art of hat disposal

An interesting weekend; we had a house guest, one of my brother-in-law’s friends, Aaron, the type of house guest that gives a good name to house guests. Unfortunately he was only in town for just 36 hours. Hardly enough time to see very much, but he managed to see plenty.  We did the usual touristy  ... [More]

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Another mention

Letters section of today’s Age: Actually, I wouldn’t go that far. Grateful? People were paid after all – some of them quite substantial sums of money, I’ll bet. Unless it all went to the consulting firms they worked for. Wish it was this easy to get my web page mentioned in the newspaper.

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Daniel the crank

Letters section of today’s Age: I always feel like a bit of a crank when I e-mail the newspaper, but jeez, some of the other people who offer their opinions in it are so stupid…

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Melbourne News and events

End of the world

Welcome to the year two thousand. The very fact that you’re reading these words probably means that the dreaded Y2K bug didn’t eventuate. At least, not in a huge way. I’m sure the residents of Hobart and Adelaide aren’t too disappointed that their bus ticket machines stopped working for a while. (Oh, commiserations if you’re  ... [More]