Tim's Bits and Pieces

Addict Claire Murray offered second chance for liver transplant:

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My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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The Coalition claims it will sell Medibank Private:

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I've been thinking about self-improvement recently, and I've come up with ten things. Basically it's ten attributes, mostly skills, that I wish I had, but don't have, and the steps I can take in the short term that I can take to move towards these goals. So without further ado, "I want to":

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Just an interesting example of cultural differences I observed while reading The Lion's Mane, a Sherlock Holmes story. Basically the story goes that a man stumbles of the beach beside a lagoon in obvious agony, mumbles something about a "lion's mane", and then dies. When the body is examined it reveals a pattern of red welts across his back, which are described as similar to the wounds from a whip of some sort.

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The company I work for has changed it's name from CVSDude to Codesion. I'm going to miss CVSDude, but I think Codesion is probably better.

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Baen Books has a large number of free ebooks available for download, which is cool. I quite like most of their sci-fi and fantasy books, so I strongly recommend checking it out. Also the rant on the front page about why they are doing it is worth reading for it's own sake.

I thought I'd try my hand at recipe blogging, so here's a quick and easy Cous-Cous recipe that I occasionally eat for lunch (it would probably make a fine side-dish for a main meal as well):

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Rudd's explanation of poll dive:

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Solariums ignoring new laws:

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