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Leaders debate

An amazing picture of bland sameness.

A rehash of the last week, so I guess this is about all we will get for the rest of the election leadup?

When we needed words, ideas and direction we get spin and soft voices devoid of passion.

Where are the visionaries and leaders when you need them, [...]

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Cadel Evans in the up?

After a few good rides and a bit of luck Cadell Evans is looking good in the tour de france.

All we need now is for the commentators to recognise it is a race and things can change very quickly before they get all hot and sweaty about the chances of him winning

To [...]

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The Politics of Fear

Once again our political leaders are letting us down by embarking on a fear campaign in relation to asylum seekers.

While I am sure that most would prefer that the boats were not coming to Australia this does not mean that the passengers on these should not be treated fairly and with some respect.

Good [...]

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Flat Plate Heat Exchanger

Flat Plate Heat Exchanger

30 plates

Use this flat plate exchanger to preheat vegetable oil as a biofuel prior to the filter and/or injection pump to improve viscosity and flow.

Using a standard fitting size of 1/2″ NPT threads you can select a barbed fitting to suit any hose line you may have.

The heat [...]

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interested in CRON jobs?

>/dev/null 2>&1

Appended to the end of the string will stop email notifications being sent every time CRON runs.

Excellent thing to have if your CRON runs every 15 minutes or so

How can you trust a spammer with a name of abcd1234 ?

Full of imagination and the ability to create complex names and details these obscure names sign up to email and blogs with gay abandon.

Of course it is all driven by a computer and the signups are automated.

What surprises me, or perhaps it doesn’t, is that the computer driven subscriptions are actually smarter than [...]

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Revealed: Australian airport with most bird strikes

Perhaps this header should have read -

Planes hitting Birds ? After all there is generally only one loser yet we seem to want to believe it is the bird’s fault?

Follow the link for the full article.

Revealed: Australian airport with most bird strikes – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A new report [...]

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Howard snub ‘an insult to Australia’

Howard snub ‘an insult to Australia’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

There could be many reasons for this “rejection”.

Perhaps they did not like his policies while he was in Government?

Former International Cricket Council boss Malcolm Speed says world cricket’s governing body has insulted Australia and New Zealand by blocking former prime [...]

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Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS

Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

New Zealanders are bracing for higher electricity and fuel prices with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

From today New Zealanders will pay around three cents a litre more for fuel.

Electricity bills are set to increase [...]

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