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My many thanks to everyone who let me know that duncanriley.com was down. It’s not b5 related, I promise, and u can all take that with my personal I don’t lie certification. It’s just after 7pm US EST time as I’m writing this, but just 4 possibly the first time in my life, I’m actuallly at that time zone. It would appear that with the traffic spike, duncanriley.com being on my personal box, that it went down for a while. My side projects, people I know who have projects etc….that’s the box I’m on, it’s been like that for 12 months, although this site was only on there previously. I will at this stage add something of substance: f*ck, I’m really not famous. When I’m talking to Prince and he’s telling me that ppl signed up to The Blogging Times because I did. That’s nut’s. For the mad few of you who care what I write….Struth. If you want to insert Steve Irwin there go for it. Because to me it’s so Bizarre. When I startered blogging I did it because I liked blogging, and that’s the honest to god truth. There was never an alteramotive. Ever. That some people out there treat me as a minor celebrity……..OMG! To every one though who is ready this. There is as always one thing I would ask: if I ever get so far up myself, so self obsessed. For the love of god tell me. It’s easy to get out of control, and yet it’s harder to remember where you’ve come from.

I’m standing here typing this in the Departures lounge at Hong Kong Airport. One word to say about about Hong Kong:
F*ck!
Free markets not only work, they rock. I only wish I wasn’t about to hop on another plane to North America. Absolutely mind blowing amazing. My only gripe, the main shops don’t open to late on Sundays. Can’t ein em all. I’ll be back here in nearly 2 weeks, maybe less if I can juggle it. The clocks ticking on the paid internet booth so time to go, but HK: recommended.

Check this one out:

Linking to (no direct link..I’m not giving Google juice to this page):

http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/kasert/view?PostID=18545

In case it disappears:

Tags: Google News

I’d normally make a joke about Shane Warne and drugs at this stage was this story not serious, from News.com.au

THE Australian and English cricket teams were to be killed with sarin gas by some of those responsible for the July 7 attacks in London, a friend of a terrorist claims.

The man, known as Ahmed Hafiz, has told The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain that two of the suicide bombers involved in last July’s attacks were to have been part of an al-Qaeda plot to kill the two cricket sides, News Limited papers have reported.

Hafiz claims the men, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, were instructed in 2004 to get jobs as stewards at Edgbaston, the venue for the second Ashes Test on August 4 last year.

They were then to pump sarin – a highly toxic nerve gas – into the two teams’ dressing rooms during the game.

Struth. Remember that Sarin is the gas used by those whack jobs a couple of years back in the Tokyo subway. Not nice stuff. I’m sure there will be more on this story in the days to come.

Tags: Al-Qaeda, Ashes, English Cricket Team, Australian Cricket Team

Dear Ms Kindle
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Thank you for the numerous unkind words you have sent me in relation to my posts on the death of Steve Irwin. As an American I’m sure you’re a complete expert on how some Australians found Steve Irwin embarrassing at times. As I have previously written, the man was a walking clich?É?í?Ǭ© and often portrayed stereotypes of Australians which were not based in fact.

A reasonable demonstration of stereotypes for example is demonstrated in these kind words you sent to me:

My ancestry left England, yours were removed in chains. I don’t expect that you have a great genetic disposition, but hopefully you aspire to learn.

But of course my dear, I must have imagined that my Grandparents on one side were Scottish, and on the other side they were English free settlers from the 1840s. If one must play this game my dear, your relatives probably left England because they were religious freaks that had sex with goats, but I wouldn’t dare stoop so low as to place such stereotypes on my cousins across the Pacific.

As I’d noted, Steve Irwin did have many positive points, but it would have been remiss of me not to note some of his negatives as well, after all it was the character of the man in being so grossly annoying that he eventually endeared himself into the hearts of many.

http://www.qlock.com/time/gmaps?map=1

The GMT time (+/-) plus what time it is there now, all in Google map glory.

I’ve been recently updating my Bloglines subs, purging some feeds, adding some new ones, and I decided today to resubscribe to Robert Scoble’s blog…I’d refused to in the past when he moved across to WordPress because as far as I was concerned he was damn lazy in not doing a modrewrite of his old feed…not a nice way to treat people…but I digress, because the man who once said that he would refuse to read part feeds is offering…A PART FEED!

Check out this shot:

Yep, another case of do as I say, not as I do.

Shame Robert, Shame.

Tags: Robert Scoble