I haven't yet decided which U.S. 'Southern' east coast city I'm ( Read more... )

[Timestamp in AEDT]

I spent New Year at the Woodford Folk Festival. I honestly had never heard of it until Penelope Swales ( Read more... )

I ended up taking Ca-65 for my drive back to the Bay Area. It's not listed as a scenic route and it probably isn't all that unlike any other state highway in the San Joaquin Valley, but the different shades of gold and yellow in the summer-heated lumpy hills were dramatic and beautiful. It reminded me of the landscape descriptions in Red Mars, ( Read more... )

Where do we go now? We finally have a good president for a change ( Read more... )

All the political movement sites are sending out their 'priorities for 2008' surveys at the moment. The toughest is getup.org.au's People's Agenda for Parliament, because in addition to the available rankings of 'not important' to 'very important' was the rank 'top 3 priorities'. Sheesh, how do you pick the three most important out of this lot?

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