I am just preparing for tonight’s Rostrum meeting and decided to mention that pesky United States election thing. I found this discussion on Election, which as an avid follower of US politics I found interesting – and intriguing. As it is currently Tuesday in the United States (that whole time zone thing means it’s actually …
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So I thought I’d post up my review of the Total Recall remake. Since I’d gone to all the effort of writing it on my Facebook. This film had a lot to live up to, with the predecessor film having starred the perennial Arnold Schwarzenegger. On its own and without referencing the original film, the …
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A friend of mine on Facebook posted up a quote: “You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty – finish high school,marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to …
A short blog post to get me into writing today – a practical tip on how to be sure you always have batteries with you when you need them. About a year ago I went Mac – mostly good, some bad, but overall a good choice. That means that I regularly take my laptop to …
Well some of the people dropping by this blog may be interested to see a short video of the floods that have recently devastated Brisbane. The irony is that you wouldn’ t have known about the floods where I was – I live on a hill – but they were real enough when you went …
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