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The inter-web is not as old as you think

I just read an article online which stated the internet has been around for 30 years, and for many much shorter. This got me thinking. Thirty years! I don’t think its been around that long. I’m 41 and can remember playing the first video game “Pong” in black and white on a TV with a [...]

After her most recent check-up at the doctor’s, during which concern was expressed about her long history of punctuation abuse, she found that she was indeed able to reduce her daily intake of exclamation marks by half and once again enjoy long nights of deep, untroubled sleep. She also lost 3kg of superfluous vowel sounds [...]

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1. From my window black sea glistens like mollusc skin You drank Rioja because the smell and taste reminded you of bullfights and the blood that fell as the Matador plunged his knife into the bull’s neck, twisted, cut out a life. We talked of fiesta’s and Catholic processions, you watched the girls pass in [...]

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Safety….

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What is safety? What is a world where all live in harmony? What is peace? What is religion, what are the fundamental lessons or guides to religion? I look around our world and I see one of such incomprehendable dualites that I sometimes find it hard to breathe. I witness, we witness every day, people [...]

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Bread for you

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I was just sitting in the lounge room with a packet of “Cherry Ripe” biscuits studying for my first Sociology exam. I was reading about poverty in particular. Some 800 million people are below the absolute poverty level where they earn less that $1 per day and their lives are at risk from starvation. There [...]

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Bolto’s War

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Bolto’s War

Extract from a ww1 diggers diary. This is an extract from the diary of Roy Louis Coppin Bolto from Adelaide, Australia who fought on the Western front during World War One. He wrote this account in London while the war still rag-ged in France after being transferred from the front to the 70th Battalion, Wareham [...]

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A life…

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There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened [...]

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