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Daily Archives: December 3, 2012

Still occupied with dvd making

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Neil

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I do have a complete one at last and I think it’s really good. The above was the third section in making, covering July to the present. But the total effort is a 90 minute dvd and that is big and slow to prepare and burn. Tomorrow I get to make copies.

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  • It's still hot in Sydney
  • Into the woods
  • Why? Market Street
  • After the theatre
  • Ferries at dusk
  • Romance
  • Sunset reflection
  • 1 boat, 2 boats, 3 boats. Circular Quay
  • Jet boating preparation

RSS Tasmania

  • The missing file, the lost chicken and dreamland
  • Books, mishaps and Jireh House
  • Birds, Books & Reunions
  • Farewell to a modem!
  • Books, health and haiku
  • Summer marches out
  • Goodbye [and good riddance] to February
  • a New Year note
  • 2024 ends
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  • Fair by Logic or Feeling: A Test of Wisdom
  • Is Multipolar World Really a Global Democracy
  • LGBT and Human Rights
  • Triple Filter Test
  • Tacit knowledge
  • Waiting In Line.
  • Artificial intelligence ChatBot.
  • Five Pillars of Strong Country.
  • Fentanyl Crisis.
  • I love her first

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RSS Wild Reed — Oz GLBT Catholic activist in Minnesota

  • Not Even Manslaughter?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Night Blessing
  • Quote of the Day
  • Kshama Sawant on the Real Reason for Jacobin Magazine’s “Hatchet Job” on Chris Smalls
  • When the “Blue Wave” Is a “Blue Crackdown”
  • Quote of the Day
  • May Vignettes
  • Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
  • How the Green Party Gained Power in the U.K.

RSS Worldman — Swiss — works though retired for UN Food agency.

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RSS Denis Wright — retired historian with Asian interest

  • A Last Message from Denis
  • Funeral Arrangements
  • Saturday 7 December 2013
  • An Update from Tracey
  • The brain jam
  • Hospital 2
  • Hospital 1
  • The dangling leg
  • Just one 'waffeer thin' verse
  • A trip to the Oncologist

RSS Yawning Bread (Alex Au) in Singapore — blogging since last century!

  • Cantonese speech and food in Kuala Lumpur: culture shock
  • Spoons speak of political Islam
  • Tolerant societies and immunity to data leaks
  • Covington Catholic incident: no need for police or censorship
  • CPF: Fact versus belief, but which will prevail?
  • How cheap food is a national embarrassment
  • Simplify universal health insurance
  • In trying to kill fake news, we lobotomise ourselves
  • Singapore bicentennial: Revising history, as it happens
  • Of China and India: wandering thoughts from streets, boats and trains

RSS Irfun Yusuf — Nahari Nation

  • PhD: Random thoughts.
  • PhD: Cosmopolitanism -v- Communitarianism
  • PhD: Little Johnny and his MCRG
  • PhD: To what extent does a retreat from multiculturalism really affect Muslims?
  • PhD: The Gap between scholarship and everyday interaction
  • Turkish Muslims and the Diyanet
  • PhD: Notes on the 2013 Parliamentary Committee report on Migration & Multiculturalism
  • OBITUARY: On the Passing of Shaykh Esad
  • PhD: Some notes on identity
  • PhD: Islam in the West

RSS Irfan Yusuf — Oz Muslim lawyer

  • COMEDY: The Chaser’s SPIN
  • POLITICS: Scattered thoughts on what is likely the end of Scott Morrison's political career
  • OPINION: To Trump, Khashoggi's Murder Is More Serious Than War Crimes
  • MUSIC: Tanya Wells channels a South Asian legend
  • MEDIA: ‘Someone who gets into people’s faces’: Spotlight journalist Walter Robinson speaks in Sydney
  • EGYPT: Egypt's re-revolution going viral
  • INDIA: Silence Over Suffering Is Deafening
  • REVIEW: On romping racists and far-left extremists
  • AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Tony Abbott isn't going anywhere
  • BOOKS: A Sunday afternoon trying to make the Liberal Party great again

Perennial issues

Islamophobes:

Before you even think of commenting, read this post. I'm just sick of arguing!

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Climate sceptics

Skeptical Science -- winner of the Australian Museum's Eureka Award in 2011. Excellent, and VERY sound and sane!

The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle. Go here for the real story. POST UPDATED AND EXPANDED 16 July 2007.
See also How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic -- comprehensive FAQ and rebuttal of climate change skepticism.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Discovery of Global Warming -- on the Web site of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.

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