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The Ferengi have a couple of Rules Of Acquisition that really do ring true. Actually, they have a lot of Rules Of Acquisition that ring true, but in light of the way things are going on this planet, my thoughts are concentrated on two that stand out.
On one hand, Rule 34 states that “War is […]

Christmas has passed for another year. It seems like only yesterday that it was here, but now it’s gone and the peoples thoughts have turned to such things as the Sydney to Hobart yacht race and the Boxing Day cricket test match - both events that arouse my interest in much the same way as […]

It seems I need not worry about my non Christmas cheer because, according to my horoscope, I have bigger things happening in the near future. I don’t normally read horoscopes, but today I had nothing better to do after completing the crosswords so I turned to that page in the paper and found this little […]

Christmas is coming up in a week and I’m pretty much over it already (as if I wasn’t over it when the decorations started going up in the shopping malls around October). In fact, I’m so not into it this year that I’m not even bothering to send out Christmas cards to anyone. It’s a […]

I’ve always kind of thought I led a pretty charmed life. I’ve taken the odd risk here and there and survived to tell the tale when I should have been seriously injured at the very least, said the wrong thing to the wrong (and often larger) person and managed to talk my way out of […]

Ever since Sunday, we have been experiencing afternoon storms. Not your usual run of the mill Summer storms that drop a bit of rain, make a little noise then wander off to annoy other people, but horrendous storms that make me wonder where the hell all the water that fell from the sky actually came […]

When I am not working on a Sunday, I usually spend the day relaxing with a bit of TV, the newspaper and doing my semi infrequent internet radio show. Since today is Sunday, you can bet that I have already done at least two of these things. Most notably, I have read the newspaper since […]