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  • Earth Hour 2008

    To be honest, I almost forgot about Earth Hour, and only turned off the lights at 8.05pm. Wouldn’t have been funny if I hadn’t remembered at all. Imagine: Oops, I forgot to save the planet. Dang. Gotta set reminders on my PDA next time. I left the MacBook Pro on, else my consumer-level camera wouldn’t…

  • Die die (already) also must pay

    Vimoutiers Graveyard Lease Expired – Photo by e_cathedra If NTU students think they’re hard done by, then they should meet the leasing agents for a dead student’s accommodation A County Armagh couple whose daughter died while at university in Liverpool have been told they must pay for her accommodation for the rest of the year.

  • Team Hoyt

    If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama downloads, or you are simply inured to so many otherwise moving things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt. Rick Hoyt was born severely disabled and his parents were told he would live in a permanently vegetative…

  • Bookmarks from Holland Village

    If you’ve ever been to Holland Village lately, you’d probably have been approached by one or two flers trying to sell you something, and you might or might not have stopped to find out what they were hawking. It was one of those days where I had a bit of time, because Naomi and I…

  • Earth Hour

    At lunch on Good Friday, my mother’s friend spoke about how her younger son’s school was going about teaching the kids about being environmentally friendly. It’s all good to teach them the message, but this is apparently what happened in practice. The younger son had have a set of folders for class, and thinking that…