July 2008

"Through skin care, natural make-up, hair care, nail care girls discover their value and created uniqueness"

"Rio Tinto, with BHP behind it, has succeeded in fracturing the iron ore benchmark price system that has underpinned the development of the great steel mills of NE Asia and the mines of NW Australia."

we had everyone along, from a Buddhist priest to a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran (whether the WPI or the WPI-H I don't know)

I couldn't get over how so many pilgrims were carrying national flags, often literally wrapped in them - but then I remembered that these are ultra-conservative "neocat" Catholics, many of whom will also be neo-fascists

"With the Eee PC SSD, a typical user (6 hours/day, 10% write rate) will write for 36 minutes per day resulting in a useful lifespan of ~25 years in my worst case below"

having middle-aged men denying young girls the right to speak is a recipe for more child abuse, not less

"I'm really, really offended by what Kevin Rudd had to say about this picture ... It is one of my favourites, if not my favourite photo, my mum has ever taken of me and she has taken so many photos of me."

my Latin was once good enough to read three books (II, IV, and XII), but not good enough to really appreciate them

"Two people were killed when their cars struck emus, another person died after a vehicle struck a sheep, and an elderly person died after tripping over a pet cat."