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- SURFING KINMOKUSEIOn the last leg of my warm dawn walk this morning, just as the sun came out from behind the last of the low typhoon clouds I was walking past the big plot of land used by a garden shop owner in the big city as a nursery for various big shrubs and bushes and trees much desired by gardeners, when once again the paradisiacal scent of kinmokusei (sweet olive tree; Oleaceae fragrans var. aurantiacus) caught me by surprise, telling me what time of year it really was, wafting one of the deep meanings of time from that carefully selected and nurtured forest. As I walked in the growing warmth, the scent increased to such intensity as the sunlight became the plants that soon I was surfing down the mountain road on a creamy wave of heavenly scent that carried me all the way down to my house. Because kinmokusei has no big flashy flowers, only tiny, golden buddish blossoms hiding peeping the axils of the branches, I never see it coming, so every year at this time it catches me by the same surprise. |
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- Lots of good commentary on John Howard's stunning victory over the forces of appeasement and schtoopidity in Australia, at Silent Running. That faint whining you hear from the southern hemisphere is the sound of thousands of terminally depressed Aussie moonbats. |
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nachruf (Oct 10 2004 00:15 GMT) - du merkst, daß du alt wirst, wenn die todesnachrichten im freundeskreis zunehmen. ein satz, den man immer wieder mal im verwandtenkreis hört. leider ist er nur zu wahr. |
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- people goand the sky holds those whohold usand the world becomes slowly just a giant cemeteryballoon of bonesand people comethey come at such a price - blood and tears - and after thiswe knowbefore that we flowi bet all i could havefor i'm coming back only for thisagain and againand loving distractions of any age: surprise me! |
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- Anthonyyyyy ? C'est lui mon leitmotiv, c'est pour lui que je vais en cours, que je me lve chaque matin, que je suis mes cours assidumment. Pour qu'il m'admire ? Pour qu'il m'aime bien ? Je ne sais pas ! |
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- Comme je l'ai dit, je suis Stella, j'ai 15 ans.. je n'ai pas une vie trs facile et sur ce joueb je pourrai me plaindre comme je veux sans que personne me dise rien, chouette ! Je viens d'entrer en Seconde. Mon dbut d'anne a t difficile, je ne faisais pour ainsi dire que pleurer.. Gnial le dbut d'anne nan ? |
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- Je viens de crer mon joueb.. a a l'air gnial.. j'ai dj fait ce systme ailleurs, mais je ne me souviens mme plus de l'adresse du site.. C honteux ! Mamma miaaa : |
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- Felicitations ! Ca a marché ! Vous voici sur votre joueb. Ceci est un article de bienvenue spé |
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- ALLO TLM C JUSTE POUR VOUS DIRE QUE J'ABONDONNE MON JOUEB !!! CHOW TLM ! |
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- Retour aux amphis cette semaine. Sensation trange : il y a peine quinze jours j'tais (nous tions) en stage, effleurant du doigt une partie essentielle de notre futur mtier : non pas la technique d'examen, la recherche de diagnostic (c'est important aussi, mais nous l'apprendrons plus tard), mais la facette profondment humaine, le face face avec des fragments de vie. |
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- Happy 64th birthday, John Lennon! We miss you still. Driving down to Fiddler's Green to hear a tune or... |
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- Liquefy Tutorial for Bigger Boobs Uses a picture of a naked girl and Photoshop. Nyuck nyuck! [via sexblo.gs] (categories: design sex) American City Flags... |
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- Here's a quick summary of a new survey that examines the nexus between religion and politics in America, particularly with respect to the upcoming election. (Full study here.) It's interesting in that it goes a little deeper than the pundits,... |
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- Aliens are coming!!!! Villagers in Romania fled their village after thinking that the bright mulitcoloured lights they were seeing in the sky was an alien invasion! The police were called, but the lights were later discovered to be part of an open air disco in the town of Herta. Dirty Money A US Psychiatrist is currently facing upto 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after paying for a parking ticket with money that had a "foreign brown substance" on it. Analysis of this substance showed that it was indeed human faeces. |
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- This is the second partial solar eclipse of 2004, and is expected to be visible, depending on the weather of course, on Thursday 14th October from Japan, Mongolia, Siberia and China. What is more interesting is, that the end of the solar eclipse should be visible from Alaska - however due to the International date line, it will be Wednesday 13th October! Sadly, I don't live in or near any of those places, so I'll just have to view pictures of it on the internet!! |
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- With Typhoon 22 set to hit Japan not long before Qualifying was scheduled to start on the Saturday meant that conditions for the qualifying session would be tretcherous. With high winds and torrential downpours meaning the track would likely be flooded and aquaplaning a certainty. This has meant that qualifying for the penultimate race of the season is being rescheduled to occur just hours before the grand prix is set to start on the Sunday! Hopefully conditions improve significantly so that the event can still take place!!!!!! |
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Flash Mob's (Oct 10 2004 00:13 GMT) - I'm sure you've heard of the latest craze - flash mobing. Where it's arranged that people will meet up at a specified location, do a really crazy act, and then disperse as quickly as they came once it's all over. This fad has even made it as a term in the dictionary! Here are a group known as Improv Everywhere, who do crazy things on the spur of the moment. Some of their more entertaining escapades are the Takeover of the Virgin Megastore music booths, the no-pants on a subway tube train, and pretending to be a Big Mac. |
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- It's been a relatively quiet weekend. No racing, and not a great deal on the tv either. The weather has definitely changed for the worse, what with it being deciding colder and wetter now! Which makes the darker and somewhat gloomier Autumn days that much worse! Soon I'll be needing to use my lights on my mountain bike on the way to work rather than just on the way home. |
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Bored? (Oct 10 2004 00:13 GMT) - Chicken War II - You're a chicken commando and have to take on members of a rival chicken clan before they kill you!!! FallDown 2 - Keep a ball moving towards the bottom of the screen through a maze whilst it speeds up! and last but not least... Puppy curling Hurl your puppy across the kitchen floor! [Listening to: |
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- Russ Vaughn emailed to let me know about his latest work and mentioned that it was inspired by something he saw on Blackfive. Bill,This just kind of popped out of me after reading Blackfive's post of Col. Dave Grossman's piece.... |
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- President Bush's response Friday night in St. Louis to a debate question about his record on the environment contained numerous inaccuracies and amounted to a gross misrepresentation of the president's real record, said the leaders of Environment2004. |
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- مثل اینکه پشیمان است که با آدم «متوسط الحالی» مثل من دهان به دهان گذاشته است. |
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- NSFW! This can also be classified as Weird and F'd up. Learn the "art" (according to the site it's an art- I would classify it as extreme body modification) of labial stretching.... |
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- Livre Blog Story - C. Fievet, E. Turrettini - - Librairie Eyrolles, laut Angaben der Autoren das erste franzsische Buch zu Blogs. |
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- This photo comes to us via DeadScot... who asks the philosophical question: "What's Bush yelling about?". |
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- Quote: "That Iamtalkingbollocks page isn't resolving for me, Paul. It must have disappeared from the net as soon as someone found out about your link. icon_wink.gif " Witness my power! |
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- People all across the world send fan letters to their favorite celebrities, be it Daniel Radcliffe, or Julia Roberts, right?... |
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- tall, dark and handsome rican, coffee eyes and my best feature is my character. |
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- Ah what a lovely mix of music I have today. Hopefully something to please everyone if not.. oh well.. it's... |
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- This evenings premiere of Frankenstein [USA, 9 p.m. ET/PT] is clearly a pilot for a prospective series. The concept is pretty straightforward Mary Shelleys classic novel was a fictionalization of work actually done by a scientist named Victor Helios. Since he first created life, Helios has used the knowledge from that achievement to prolong his life as he seeks perfection. |
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- Author: TOKI Subject: re: Man Filmed going to bathroom on Bush Sign - Video Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4: |
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- Payvand.com: Mounting threats to journalists in Iran - According to Reporters Without Borders, it's getting even more dangerous to be a true journalist in Iran. Journalists there are constantly called in for questioning by various government agencies. |
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In the mix (Oct 10 2004 00:05 GMT) - Here's what's playing on my old-fashioned CD Jukebox: Rasputina - Frustration Plantation + Bonus EP Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama (this one is FINALLY growing on me, but I can't freaking STAND the neverending "Babe, I'm on... |
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- My cousin stopped by on his way to California. I made him hang out with my children and he couldn’t wait to be on his way. |
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Who Won? (Oct 10 2004 00:02 GMT) - I didn't watch the debate. Instead, I was watching my team win yet another football game. I did experience a revelation while watching it though, For a conservative, watching the news on CBS and similar outlets is like being the... |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- The X-Files tv show dragged on too long before ending. This film is directed at those who just can't get... |
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- Radiotaxi 3570 needed to improve the services offered to its corporate customers, replacing its previous paper voucher system with a Wireless e-business system that enables corporate passengers to subscribe and pay taxi fares through a messaging system. Radiotaxi 3570 used a paper coupon system to provide its corporate passengers with vouchers for proof of service. To simplify life for businesses using services, Radiotaxi 3570 began experimenting with an innovative wireless electronic coupon system from IBM. The Wireless e-business system made it easier and more cost effective for both Radiotaxi 3570 and its customers to track when Radiotaxi 3570's taxi services had been used. |
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- By effectively managing the end-to-end business process, wholesalers such as General Glass International Corporation (GGI) are keeping the specialty glass market vigorous. Critical to GGI's success is reducing the time to market. Sales reps and buyers need real-time access to product specifications and company profiles to provide better customer service and make more, informed buying decisions. Using IBM iSeries Access for Web to provide browser-based access to the Internet, Tri-Bry chose WebSphere Application Server - Express to run the software on GGI's iSeries 820 host. |
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- Financial institutions face tremendous pressure these days. Low interest rates squeeze profits. New government regulations require time and money to implement. And forget bankers' hours. Customers want to conduct business when it's most convenient for them. |
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- The Monte dei Paschi Bank is the oldest bank in the world, founded and operating without interruptions since 1472. While in the past the SIU was supporting the requirement for each bank of the Group to work independently, the requirement is today for an IT infrastructure which supports a higher degree of integration. The bank also faced the need to integrate the Java environment with the .Net environment. CoperGMPS has developed the concept of an Integrated Service Bus (a "Conveyor Belt"), where each company is not only exchanging data resulting from internal processing, but where each company provides services to other companies and utilizes services from other companies. |
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