Call me shallow, call me mean but i am really getting sick and tired of every little thing that happened on the day that Heath Ledger died being big headline news. When i found out he had died my sole reaction was “Oh bummer, thats sad. He was a young bloke”. And then I moved [...]

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Say it isn’t so, Adam Gilchrist to retire …
AUSTRALIAN vice-captain and wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist announced his retirement Saturday night from all forms of cricket.
Gilchrist, 36, said he would retire from Test cricket at the conclusion of current clash against India at the Adelaide Oval before finishing up his Australian career at the conclusion of the [...]

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I see tonight that there are many people upset about the death of Heath Ledger and it is sad to see one so young dead. There is no shortage of links to stories about his death, glowing pieces on how good his work was and how he was linked to this drug or that drug [...]

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I just saw a preview for There’s something about Mary on tv. I am not sure how many times it has been on tv but it must be well into the double figures and i am estimating for a “family favourite” twice a year since it came out which must be twenty times. Sounds about [...]

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I have been asked to write about Blancpain who are well established watch makers with a history dating back as far as 1735 although interestingly with a 50 year halt during that period. Although now owned by the Swatch group, they still produce less than 10000 units a year and each watch is assembled from [...]

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Of late Australian bloggers are getting a good number of peer resources available to them which includes the Bumpzee Australian Blogs Community and more recently The Aussie Bloggers Forum which i joined shortly after it went live but then never quite got around to looking at until today where i discovered a huge amount of [...]

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Good News - there is now only one more year of George W Bush in the White House. To Celebrate:

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