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What lowers your stress level?

June 25, 2005 at 7:53 pm 1 Comment
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I read this question on Delmer’s Blog: List five things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list, post it to your journal, and then tag five friends and ask them to post it to theirs: 1) Reading a good [...]

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Freedom of opinion

June 25, 2005 at 8:38 am Leave a Comment

Zimbabwe dicator Robert Mugabe has signed a new law to imprison journalists for up to 20 years for publishing false information. Zimbabwean journalists already faced long jail terms for publishing "falsehoods" under existing law. Under Section 15 of the Public Order and Security Act enacted in 2002, journalists could be jailed for up to five [...]

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Pizza puff and stuff

June 11, 2005 at 6:29 pm Leave a Comment

I’m on a mailing list for the Australian Monarchists League. I was surprised to read yesterday that a pizza chain has weighed into the non-existent republican debate. The email is reproduced here: "In today’s newspapers is a report on what could only be termed to be a senseless phone survey conducted by Domino’s Pizza of [...]

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Master and Commander

May 17, 2005 at 7:27 pm 1 Comment

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian is a delightful book and a wonderful starting point for anyone interested in nautical fiction. It’s the first in O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series and I’m glad I started here, as it sets the scene for future novels. Jack Aubrey is a frustrated lieutenant waiting in a Mediterranean port for his [...]

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Conviction

March 6, 2005 at 4:39 am Leave a Comment

Conviction by Richard North Patterson is a powerful and disturbing book about truth, justice and the American way. It poses more questions than it answers, incisively exposing the flawed legal system in the United States, where elected judges care more for public opinion than justice. It tells the story of a semi-retarded black man, Rennell [...]

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