I began reading newspapers - well one newspaper, The Weekend Australian about a month ago. The world is just as interesting now as it was when I stopped thinking around 1998. (Really it is, I'm loving it.) To my joy the Australian last Saturday has begun talking to me and abou...

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I can tell a kind of story that no-one else can tell. Because I can move around I get to see the true nature of it .... like.....I was at a musician friend's house and 3 doors away - they were having a battle against American tanks. I was there the day the Red Cross was bombed...

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Feeling Warm and Fuzzy "Bang" "No!" "bang" "Stop" "bangbang" I roll up, curl up and laugh - with relief - because she did stop - and we are in a state of grace You see her ability to torment can can exactly match my objection to it. So. Now I'm awake. - well and truly. Maxwell...

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In an October 1999 article in the New Statesman , published before the new generation of Web logs, Andrew Brown described the anarchic nature of blogs as "the disorganized record of the voyagings of an intelligent mind," somewhat resembling "the captain's log on a voyage of di...

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Let me tell you about my Mr Parish. The one you have here in what you call the blogosphere is stunningly sane. Mr Parish has hit hard times and is so tired of reading his own posts, he is not quite begging passersby to contribute - but almost. So almost, that this piece of tri...

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