Month: February 2003
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Honesty
Since I set this blog thing up, it’s become like an impersonal diary. What I mean is this. I used to keep a diary. I was pretty meticulous about it for a number of years. And several of my university years are fully recorded. But the things I would put a paper diary are not…
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Hot Water
OK – this morning I finally decided to do something about my hot water. Ever since New Year, it’s been playing me up. Sometimes working, but more recently not. I’m obviously not an expert in these matters, and frankly I don’t have the cash right now to fix things. This morning I sent the wire…
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Audiences across the Pond
Strange. The Michael Jackson documentary was very successful in the UK drawing 14 million, while it was also seen as doing well in the US where it was seen by 27 million. So a country five times the size of ours achieves just about double the audience. Let’s put this in context. The latest BARB…
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The Story of the Dossier
Some embarrassment for the government in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the government published another dossier detailing attempts that the Iraqis are said to have made to hide their weapons of mass destruction. Well last night it turns out that this document was something of a cut and paste job based on a graduate…
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The Story of the Dossier
Some embarrassment for the government in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the government published another dossier detailing attempts that the Iraqis are said to have made to hide their weapons of mass destruction. Well last night it turns out that this document was something of a cut and paste job based on a graduate…
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Well I did say after I read Dance Dance Dance, that I was going to read more Haruki Murakami, and this is the next one I picked up. The most recently published paperback volume, it tells the story of a couple who never become lovers but never don’t. I suppose the book enters areas a…
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Colin Powell Presents His Case
Well Colin Powell has been spending time at the UN presenting the US case for why Iraq should be invaded this very second. I want to see some thorough analysis of this presentation – and presentation it was with lots of graphics and audio clips. There were even some mock-ups of what a mobile chemical…
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Blair Defending Al-Qaeda Claims
Now this is something I simply don’t understand. Tony Blair is reported today to still be insisting that the Iraqi regime is somehow (and this is undefined) linked to Al-Qaeda. Now maybe I’m missing something enormously obvious here, but despite Saddam eveninig saying himself in yesterday’s interview, that he’s not linked with them (and if…
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Homeopathic Nonsense
Yesterday’s Guardian also published an article about whether homeopathic medicines do any good. But the story goes around in circles. It first reports the story that something called armica doesn’t work, and mentions the Horizon from last year which dismissed homeopathic claims. And yet after all that, the author’s still too scared to really go…
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HBO and Soderbergh to Team Up
A fascinating sounding new HBO series is on the cards, with director Stephen Soderbergh (who can seemingly do no wrong at the moment) set amongst political consultants. I still love the old HBO Tanner 88 series (I have them on laserdisc!). I can hardly wait – although since HBO aren’t even commenting at the moment,…
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Condemned Man Refused DNA Request
These two stories explain my real problem with American society. Obviously the death penalty is really working in Texas, with 295 executions since 1976, and six already this year to date (excluding this one), yet it still ranks as the 14th most dangerous State in the US.
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Finally the ECB Request The Zimbabwe Fixture Moved
It’s taken them long enough, and everyone’s scared about it, but they’ve done it. They’ve asked for it to be moved. I’m amazed that the Aussies haven’t already come to the same conclusion. And with New Zealand not wanting to play in Kenya, there’s some serious reorganisation on the cards.