"Well I'm back", he said.
I've been off the net for eleven days (which I think is my longest absence since our UK holiday in June-July 2000), and have seen very little news due to three children aged between three years and nine months commandeering the mother-in-law's television for the purpose of Wiggles, Play School and Hairy McLairy DVDs. One of said children being a young girl by the name of Adara Madeline Eyre.
We're going away on holiday to Adelaide for the next eleven days. Mother-in-law's birthday party next weekend. It's unlikely that I will be updating my websites till then (apart from the dynamically changing stuff), in which case I'll see you all on November 10.
Much ado in the media today about the discovery of a extinct "hobbit"-like human species which lived in Indonesia about 18000 years ago.
Homo floresiensis is the name given to this new species. Reports from National Geographic News (they apparently have a program coming up on the subject) and Nature magazine.
There wouldn't be too many people still around who can remember the Red Sox last World Series win back in 1918. Even that great Bostonian, JFK the First, would have been less than 18 months old when they did it. The question now is whether Boston can make it a double: the Red Sox today, and the junior senator from Massachussetts (JFK the Second) in the presidential election on Tuesday?
A great, and concise, comment on the Red Sox win at guff.szub.net:
It took less than a minute for the Boston Globe to put this up on their home page:
More later. Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on their first World Series title since 1918.
Now I know why I am always refused a connection to GeorgeWBush.com. I was sure that there weren't that many computer-literate Republicans out there to deluge his site with hits.
A few articles published over the last few weeks that I think are worthy of attention:
By Naomi Klein: James Baker's Double Life (The Nation, 12.10.04): The conflicts of interest surrounding James Baker, GHW Bush's Secretary of State, now GW Bush's special envoy - and also on the payroll of, and an equity member in, the Carlyle Group.
My whole body smells like a lunch box!
- Chen Chong-yi (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan), 26.10.04
What a great moment for democracy it was in Taipei on Tuesday. A debate about whether a multi-billion dollar arms budget should be placed on the parliamentary agenda this Friday turned into an open battle of its own.
