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- No internetI haven't touched the internet for two days. Like some kind of junkie, I thought about it often. But I chose to stick to my books instead.Am reading Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Oranging of America by Max Apple and The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux. |
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- No internetI haven't touched the internet for two days. Like some kind of junkie, I thought about it often. But I chose to stick to my books instead.Am reading Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Oranging of America by Max Apple and The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux. |
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- But what does the rise of megachurches and the larger Church Growth phenomenon mean? The number of Americans identifying themselves as evangelical Christians has risen in recent years, which suggests that perhaps Church Growth is successful in reaching the lost. But on the other hand, other studies which find that the total number of Christians in America has declined in recent years suggests that Church Growth isn't really reaching that many new people, but rather just causing present Christi ... |
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- So today, I'm in a bookshop and reading "Stories of Manhood" by the same author. Steve Biddulph is an Australian author who has sought to explore what it is to be a man, and how men can be better husbands, better fathers, and better people. I can remember reading in his book that the leading cause of death among men between 12 and 60 is self inflicted death. Four times as many men as women commit suicide. I can recall pondering that fact when I was on the 14th floor balcony of a Hong Kong apartm ... |
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- Jim Young Kim, M.D., Ph.D. is a public health physician has a recent book |
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- More disturbing parallels with Roman Empire file US creeping towards military coup? [u]The Roman republic, however, failed to adjust to the unintended consequences of its imperialism, leading to a drastic alteration in its form of government. The militarism that inescapably accompanied Rome's imperial projects slowly undermined its constitution as well as the very considerable political and human rights its citizens enjoyed. The American republic, of course, has not yet collapsed; it is just un ... |
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- Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Magic is a sequel to the Book; Macromedia Flash MX 2004 series, if I am not mistaken it started since Version 4 of Macromedia Flash. |
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New Home (Oct 05 2003 04:30 GMT) - We took possesion of our new home today – nearly a year after buying it. It's a townhouse three blocks north and three blocks west of where we currently live. It's about half way between the Sylvia and Buchan hotels. |
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- You da man, Trot! Drop me a line if you'll be around. Section 87 Row NN.... |
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Hair (Oct 05 2003 04:29 GMT) - I got a hair cut/trim with a "face frame". Michael doesn't know yet, I know he's going to be upset.... |
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Home run! (Oct 05 2003 04:29 GMT) - Home run! Yeah, it's way dorky to be celebrating a single win when there are two to go. But... |
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- Wauwatosa - Just how often will you see strong-armed Milwaukee Marquette quarterback Mike Grossoehme tuck the ball in and run it? |
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What the... (Oct 05 2003 04:27 GMT) - I can't for the life of me figure out where that valign="middle" tag is coming from. SOMEtimes it's there. SOMEtimes it's not. |
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- I think I've pissed off Google. For the most part, pages on my site are nowhere to be found. I'm not in the first bunch of pages for "Keith" whereas I used to be on the front page. |
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- Israeli army attacks an Islamic Jihad training base in Syria in retaliation for suicide bombing, army says. |
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- Remember Jim Marshall? He's the cracker Democrat from Georgia who wrote an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitutional last month blaming the media for getting American soldiers killed: "News media reports about our progress in Iraq have been bleak ...,"... |
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- Epson 'Photo Quality Glossy Film' (SO41107) A6 sized (105x148mm 4.1x5.8") paper described 'Durable, bright white film sheets' 'Use for photographs' 'For brilliant Photo Quality color with the highest gloss finish' 'Use with EPSON 720/1440 dpi print mode' Results were quite good I thought. Much less bronzing than on the shitty Epson 'Photo Paper'. The instructions advise selecting 'Photo Quality Glossy Film' and if that Media Type is not available, 'High Quality Glossy Paper. |
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Quicksilver (Oct 05 2003 04:25 GMT) - ...That we need is a systematic alphabet--made so that the shapes of the characters themselves provide full information as to how they are pronounced." These words filled Daniel with a foreboding that turned out to be full justified: by the time the sun rose, they had fetched the dead man from the gaol, bought him back out to the cottage, and carefully cut his head off. Charles Comstock was rousted from bed and ordered to dissect the corpse, as a lesson in anatomy (and as a way of getting rid of it). Meanwhile, Hooke and Wilkins connected the head's wind-pipe to a large set of fireplace-bellows, so that they could blow air through the voice-box. |
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