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Guess I chose the wrong week to restart blogging (Julia 1; Kevin 0).

Author: daoosaigon. Published at 1:17 a.m. on Friday 25 June 2010. Categories: Australian Politics. Tags: Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, ALP, Australia . Comments: 0.

(Or how my decision to write about my new Android Mobile phone was overtaken by events.)

Australia politicians have sometimes tried to massage the egos of their constituents by labelling things as "world class" - universities, public transport systems (hah!), cities, bridges, whatnot. I've always found it a little transparent and needy. If something's so good, why do you need to draw attention to its excellence in such a obviously try-hard way?

But I've changed my mind. We're world class at speedy palace coups. 24 hours from plan to execution, with most Australians only hearing about it 3 hours beforehand or less. Hoping to wake to a victory over Serbia, and the possible entry to the World Cup Final 16, they got a new government instead.

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Essay Spam

Author: daoosaigon. Published at 9:10 p.m. on Monday 19 April 2010. Categories: English. Tags: Spam, Essays, Writing, Plagiarism. Comments: 0.

Update (July 11, 2010): Yes, I know. More spam. Aren't I pleased?

I haven't paid much attention to my blog these last two months. I've been concentrating on completing the PostPressed website. So to my surprise and dismay, I've found I've been comment spammed. Oddly enough, they all follow the same theme: semi-professional essay writing. It's not Viagra or Lottery spam, but still off-putting.

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Goodbye to the Noughties, and goodbye to 2009

Author: daoosaigon. Published at 12:19 a.m. on Friday 01 January 2010. Categories: Personal. Tags: An, Dad, Krugman. Comments: 1.

I'm not going to blow off the [20]00's, as Paul Krugman did, by calling it The Big Zero. His country fared far worse than mine, or my wife's, during these years. Australia seem to have avoided major recession, and the nearest Việt Nam came to it is a measly 4% growth. Better than the soup kitchens and the 18% unofficial unemployment and the medical bankruptcies and the general malaise over there.

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What's sadder? The musical illiteracy, or the fact that it took nine days to be corrected?

Author: daoosaigon. Published at 5:56 p.m. on Tuesday 08 December 2009. Categories: Music. Tags: Cluelessness, Rap, Journalism. Comments: 0.

From The Washington Post:

correction

Thursday, December 3, 2009

A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.

Found via Wonkette.

Test

Author: daoosaigon. Published at 9 p.m. on Tuesday 08 December 2009. Categories: Personal. Tags: Test, Post. Comments: 0.

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