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I have fixed your Internet. Please don’t touch the router configuration details. It took me a while to get them right :-).

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I now have a Dosa category how cool is that. So useful for when I rave about how good they are.

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Dosa Party

Your all invited.

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Anyone want to do something with me tonight. I have a house.. Leave a comment email me on davidisbored@onegeek.net or call me on my mobile(if you are privellaged enough to have it).

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http://www.csa.iisc.ernet…ec/bangdec.html

Very much worth a read. Particularly for anyone thinking about principles for working using IT in developing countries. It’s a pretty cool Declaration.

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My blog seems not to be able to handle some words at the moment. I think that’s why the last post is a bit stuffed. I can’t say B O M B or T E R R O R I S T.

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Every year my Mum has one or two librarians stay the night before library conference. They come from the country to go to a Christian School librarians conference. They are lovely and they make me smile.

One snores so loudly I can hear it from my room.

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Reading my custom google news feed for tb I have found that tb is everywhere. It’s an issue at the moment in schools in the US and even in Queensland Australia. Weird, I added it to my news feed to get news about developing world but most of the time it’s Western cases that show up.

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It didn’t suck.

I think though the best acting award should go to R2D2. He is the best character in the film. Yoda fighting is very cool.

They did well at explaining the conspiricies. It was a fun film with all the fighting and all. Anikan and Padma were again the worst characters. Their scenes lacked emotional resonance.

So as long as you don’t expect miracles you should enjoy the film.

I’d give it a 8 out of 10. Part of this is sentimental. Also don’t get your hopes up Jar Jar doesn’t die. But his role in the film is very small and he doesn’t get to speak more then 2 words. Possibly it was 1.

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Three people out of six have turned up today. Getting here at 9am and finding one other person.

Yesterday 3 people for the first 2 hours. By the end of the day about 7 out of 11 people turned up.

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I just lost my post about being lost.. How fitting.

I still find being back in Australia hard. We can be such an abstract society. Life is abstracted away. We live as consumers and workers. Too often value is defined in material terms.. Our riches are based on the exploitation of the poor. Too often it feels like we don’t have any choice. Our government gives tax cuts to the well of, instead of increasing services or providing tax relief. Who earns over $100,000 and still needs a handout from the government?

And why do people support these tax cuts. Probably because many believe one day they will be rich.

I don’t know how to live in Australia. I find it hard being back in a consumer society. I want to help people but I find it hard to ID the people who need it and how to help. It’s doubly hard because I am busy trying to finish my Uni course and working. I used to find both satisfying and meaningful. Now Uni largely feels hollow. I don’t know how much more it will teach me that I can use to help people. The focus is so heavily on the business and profit domain. Work is still OK but is taking up way to much time. Sometimes I wonder about the usefulness of what I do.

I’m feeling a bit better today. I keep finding I forget the key ingredient which is God. I am committed to having more regular quality quite times. Trying to listen to my God. I am committed to keeping myself informed about what is happening in the World.

Thanks to my fantastic friends. They prove to me there is a way to live in Australia with integrity, humility and love. My friends are one of God’s greatest gifts to me. Yet I am going to spend many years away from my oldest friends if plans come to fruition. Everything’s so temporary. Particularly if you are planning on leaving the country again in 9 months.

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http://www.latimes.com/ne…ack=1&cset=true

This is sounding cool.

“Our Gospel and the teachings of Jesus are teachings of holistic inclusion. But (the faith) has had 2,000 years of perfecting the doctrine of exclusion,” he said. “We hope to use AIDS and HIV to bring back that core of inclusion to Christianity.”

A bunch of African Christian’s (Protestants and Catholics) are trying to get back to the core of the Gospel. One Church actually tried to get all its members tested for AIDS.

Could you imagine the guts that takes?

God is good.

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I am getting so flaky lately. Today I totally forgot I was meeting a friend. This week has sucked. I have been sick. Working on projects at work. Trying to do uni work too.

I’ve worked out why I forgot. I wasn’t meant to go to work today because the project was meant to be finished. But of course it wasn’t. So I ended up at work. Spent all day trying to get stuff working. Ended up at the last minute going to the airport with my Dad at about 4pm. It was only on the way back that I realised I had forgotten. My poor friend waited 20min for me to come and I didn’t turn up. Sorry mate.

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Good night.

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So good.. I can now surf the internet properly from Uni. Such a relief.

Also a relief I am upto slide 49. Oh 50 now

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