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		<title>Meet some blogs</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/meet-some-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These three come from the BlogExplosion widget on NEIL&#8217;S SYDNEY ON BLOGSPOT. They have attracted me by their content and/or design. The images are linked to the blogs.
 
The author describes himself and his pseudonym thus: “Wilmaryad Ben O&#8217;Scallas is the love child of Irish author, Oscar Wilde, and Greek-American opera genius, Maria Callas. Wilmaryad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8674&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I have temporarily removed Firefox 3.5 from my computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This follows a highly critical alert from Secunia. I like Firefox, so I’ll probably reinstall it asap. Meanwhile I have made Google Chrome my default browser. It gets 100% thumbs up from Secunia. IE8 doesn’t, but the risk there is rated moderate, but I don’t use IE8 often.
Update 16 July
I have reinstalled Firefox, despite the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8668&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh dear, I agree with Peter Costello!</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/oh-dear-i-agree-with-peter-costello/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Costello, Treasurer in the Howard Government, is famously about to drop out of parliamentary politics, even if the majority of voters would have him rather than Malcolm Turnbull as Opposition Leader. Nowadays he writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald. Today he weighs into the China syndrome. I am sure many Costello-haters, and there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8666&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Slavery&#8221; may be a bit strong, but bad nonetheless&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/slavery-may-be-a-bit-strong-but-bad-nonetheless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Sydney Morning Herald exposes what would appear to be a racket in the overseas student business. Make sure you read the associated stories.
THOUSANDS of overseas students are being made to work free &#8211; or even to pay to work &#8211; by businesses exploiting loopholes in immigration and education laws in what experts describe as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8665&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I happened along soon after&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/i-happened-along-soon-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the twins for tutoring today starting at 1.00, so I wandered up Hay Street around 12.45. I did see them retrieve the man.
See Man struck by Sydney tram.
The tram eventually moved off around 2.30.
 
No, I didn’t have my camera with me, but it happened at this crossing.
Posted in Australia, events, local  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8662&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some things that tickle me</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/some-things-that-tickle-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My other favourites
If you go to the renamed Neil&#8217;s Sydney on Blogspot you will find in the sidebar a widget called BlogExplosion – my blogmarks. While surfing via BlogExplosion I sometimes bookmark blogs that attract my attention because of their design or something about the content. Go to that widget and see what I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8659&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glebe revisited</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/glebe-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mention on the photo blog, I went over to an old stamping ground of mine today: Glebe and Forest Lodge. One reason was to drop off copies of The South Sydney Herald at the bookshops whose proprietors I had interviewed (on Skype!) for my article in the July edition.
Bit of a private joke [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8656&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick thoughts on China</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/quick-thoughts-on-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in China talk of a “cold wind from the north” whenever the Chinese Government (formally/formerly Communist, still “totalitarian”) gets conniptions. They tend to wait out the storm and go, so far as possible, about their own business. There are winds blowing right now, principally over Xinjiang and Urumqi, but also over Chinalco and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8647&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday is music day 21: The Warumpi Band 1988</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/sunday-is-music-day-21-the-warumpi-band-1988/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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Update
I’ve been thinking about this, and I’d have to check with Kristina Nehm, but – though it is now a long time ago – I am sure the “Anglo” guitarist in this group was at Kristina’s memorable party during the Australia Day period in 1988. I seem to recall talking to him, but I met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8635&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second July stats trawl</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/second-july-stats-trawl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The photoblogs have been attracting more people – see City Daily Photo sure helps!
Neil’s Sydney Photo Blog
619 views so far this month. The top five posts in the past seven days are:

Joy in Belmore Park – 3.30 pm today 24 views
The Four Seasons 3 – summer 14
Multicultural Sydney: pedestrians in Hay Street 14
Passing parade: around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8630&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warm and fuzzy quote of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comes from Alexander McCall Smith, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, Edinburgh, Polygon 2008. More on that later.
Why do people like Australia so much? he asked himself. And an unexpected answer came to him: it’s because everything that has been destroyed elsewhere, in an orgy of self-hatred, still survives here.

Posted in Australia, Australia and Australian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8628&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday poem 14: not really a poem!</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/friday-poem-14-not-really-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But it could be.
In Redfern Park 
In the latest South Sydney Herald Adrian Spry contributes this on the back page.
Utopian Dream
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…
On a drear early morning, mid-year and hand-numbing cold. Greyness seems juxtaposed upon grey. The morning mist shrouds the Waterloo towers, making them seem ceilingless. They seem to climb heavenward forever.
Walking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8621&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s what I have to say to these turkeys&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/heres-what-i-have-to-say-to-these-turkeys/</link>
		<comments>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/heres-what-i-have-to-say-to-these-turkeys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crawl back under your rock!
 Proud of this:
 

Both images lead somewhere!
Posted in Australia, Australia and Australian       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8615&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>66 &#8211; since 9 July 1943</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/66-since-9-july-1943/</link>
		<comments>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/66-since-9-july-1943/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just two sixes…
Behold the portrait of the artist as grumpy old man!

Posted in personal       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8597&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Like this photographer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/like-this-photographer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
… I too was drawn by this sight in Belmore Park this afternoon. See the results at Joy in Belmore Park – 3.30 pm today.
Posted in amazing, Australia, Australia and Australian, local, multicultural Australia, photography       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8607&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Leavitt, &#8220;The Indian Clerk&#8221; (Bloomsbury 2007)</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/david-leavitt-the-indian-clerk-bloomsbury-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/david-leavitt-the-indian-clerk-bloomsbury-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  No problem with thinking of a rating. This novel is superb.
In the world of mathematics, Srinvasa Ramanujan had a beautiful mind.
The 23-year-old was an uneducated bank clerk in the Indian city of Madras when, in 1913, he wrote a nine-page letter to Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy filled with prime-number theorems. Soon after, Hardy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8602&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 09 South Sydney Herald</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/july-09-south-sydney-herald-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a particular interest in this, but the really big news in this issue is the front page story on the approval of the Pemulwuy Project in Redfern.
So here&#8217;s your copy of the paper: SSH_JULY_09 pdf
There&#8217;s a lot to read in the South Sydney Herald, and it isn&#8217;t all parochial; for example Laura Bannister [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8581&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet more cyber condoms</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/yet-more-cyber-condoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a geeky entry.
I have just discovered cloud antivirus. 
 
Yes, that is all you see when you open it up. It is always up to date without downloading updates!
 See more here. So far I am pleased with it.
A while ago I reported on RadarSync and other geeky things. I eventually gave up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8574&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australia third happiest place on Earth</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/australia-third-happiest-place-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, there you go! See the story on Yahoo7.
Costa Rica is the happiest place on Earth, and one of the most environmentally friendly, according to a new survey by a British non-governmental group, which puts Australia in third place.
The New Economics Foundation looked at 143 countries that are home to 99 per cent of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8570&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday lunch: Simon H&#8217;s place, Randwick</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/sunday-lunch-simon-hs-place-randwick/</link>
		<comments>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/sunday-lunch-simon-hs-place-randwick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Sirdan and Simon
 

View from Simon’s verandah
M also joined us. He and Simon engaged in vigorous but mutually enjoyable cross-cultural debate.
Posted in Australia, M, personal, Sirdan, Sunday lunch       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8563&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Floating Life photo 25: Gordon Syron at South Sydney Uniting Church</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/sunday-floating-life-photo-25-gordon-syron-at-south-sydney-uniting-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is currently an exhibition of Indigenous artist Gordon Syron at South Sydney Uniting Church.
Gordon does not paint dots. &#34;My strength in painting is political&#34;, says Syron. &#34;I use satire and raw imagery to send a message that Australian History has left out the Aboriginal people and their stories. Art is a way to convey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8560&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Russell Darnley OAM</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/welcoming-russell-darnley-oam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My former colleague at SBHS Russell Darnley has entered the blogosphere. I mentioned Russell a while ago in Islam has about 1.3 billion followers worldwide. He was in Bali at the time of the bombing and wrote about it; the full text is in that post.
“I want to write about the overwhelming manifestation of selfless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8554&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday again: time to go counting beans&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/saturday-again-time-to-go-counting-beans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninglun on Blogspot
Sitemeter tells me this blog, which had several incarnations and a long hiatus, has at last crept past 6,000 visits. According to Google Analytics it is up 238% in visits. In the past seven days there have been 103 visits and 144 page views. Sitemeter records 66 visits and 80 page views so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8549&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some serious reading for all Australians</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/some-serious-reading-for-all-australians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission has released a substantial report called Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2009. It is important to step away from whatever ideological frames one is accustomed to applying and read the report with great care. Though we must always remember there has been progress in some areas &#8212; and for me the February [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8543&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First July reviews &#8211; mainly comic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dante’s Cove 2 (2007 DVD)
I watched just 15 minutes of this heap of crap. If one was drunk or drugged and with friends it may work. Fortunately my copy was free, thanks to Surry Hills Library.
 &#160;Julian Halls, The Museum, Hobart, Knocklofty Press 2008. 


This gets two rather dismissive lines on SameSame.com.
Halls’s strength as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8538&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June roundup in brief &#8212; Sitemeter</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/june-roundup-in-brief-sitemeter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The details from WordPress and Google Analytics for the individual blogs are on Ninglun’s Specials.

The only blog to grow during June was Ninglun on Blogspot with 474 visits and 617 page reads. Last month it was 237/280. 
The Floating Life (WordPress) blogs had 9,085 visits and 11,539 page reads. Last month it was 10,835/13,780. 
English/ESL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8530&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The hidden power of language</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/the-hidden-power-of-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that language shapes (if not determines) our perspectives, indeed what we may think, has been around for a long time. I have encountered examples of the phenomenon in teaching ESL and EFL (English as a Foreign Language). For example, some Chinese students and I once disputed the colour of something we were all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8524&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English/ESL nominated</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/englishesl-nominated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year English/ESL came in at #75 in the Top 100 Language Blogs 2008 on Lexiophiles. I have just been informed that English/ESL has been nominated for the Top 100 of 2009. 
Phase 2: Public Voting (July 8 – July 27)
At the end of the nomination phase, we will prescreen every blog and put it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8520&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian students, racism, theatre news</title>
		<link>http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/indian-students-racism-theatre-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given recent concern over attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney it is fitting that Sydney’s newest theatre company, The Alex Buzo Company, is mounting two plays in August at The Seymour Centre: Buzo’s Norm and Ahmed&#160;(1968) and Alana Valentine’s Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah. The first Sydney production of Norm and Ahmed made history. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ninglundecember.wordpress.com&blog=2232835&post=8514&subd=ninglundecember&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Borrowed plumage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often enjoyed DeusExMacintosh on Skeptic Lawyer, but today’s entry is a corker!
&#160; 
The image is linked to the original.
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