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Had a quiet but pleasant NYE. Was originally planning to go to a 2600-AU gathering, however ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya was suffering from the 'flu. So we had a quiet night at home with the rats, drank a bottle of Moet, ate Belgian chocolates as was visited by possums at 2 am. Of course, subsequently I also developed said 'flu. An interesting experience, a combination of a cold and a fever simultaneously. Was dutifully cared for by nurse severina_242 as I was bed prone for fourty hours straight.
The positive side of it all is that has meant I've had time to play Delta Force. The great thing about this game is the realism. You can be shot from 200 meters from an opponent you cannot see. You can fire every round from a machine pistol at an opponent at 20 meters and miss entirely.
Managed to drag my corpus out to a Clinton and Debs' gathering last night, replete with the usual suspects (left-of-centre academics, military personnell and the like). The main star was a visit from Carlos, a Portuguese administrator who I made friends with in East Timor and has now been there for three years. Was working for the National Parliament, now working for the Ministry of the Interior.
What work I've managed to do has been interesting. Having crunched the numbers I'm advising against upgrading SpamAssassin until we upgrade our servers. Besides, it gives me a little more time to comprehend how it all fits in with Amavis and Postfix. In the meantime, it is considered high-time to install a webstatistics package, of which AWStats seems to be the product of choice.
The tsunami toll keeps rising with 140,000 now the confirmed number of deaths. Kevin Rudd raises the question of why Burma is pretending that it's toll was so low. Meanwhile, as I thought would be the case, the real problems are just beginning; lack of safe drinking water and seasonal rains is bringing pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and skin infections were appearing along with some cases of gangrene.
In the face of existential crises, of which natural disasters must surely be counted, there is a certain inevitability that people start getting religious and for religious leaders to feed on the fear. So various Australian religious have offered their interpretations. The Anglican Dean of Sydney apparently believes that the tsunami is God's punishment on sinners, as does the chief executive of Federation of Islamic Councils. Only the President of the Hindu council rejected the notion that it was a punishment from above.
On a positive note, TRN offers the top ten technological advances for 2004. There's some interesting gadgets-to-be coming out of that...
caseopaya was suffering from the 'flu. So we had a quiet night at home with the rats, drank a bottle of Moet, ate Belgian chocolates as was visited by possums at 2 am. Of course, subsequently I also developed said 'flu. An interesting experience, a combination of a cold and a fever simultaneously. Was dutifully cared for by nurse severina_242 as I was bed prone for fourty hours straight.The positive side of it all is that has meant I've had time to play Delta Force. The great thing about this game is the realism. You can be shot from 200 meters from an opponent you cannot see. You can fire every round from a machine pistol at an opponent at 20 meters and miss entirely.
Managed to drag my corpus out to a Clinton and Debs' gathering last night, replete with the usual suspects (left-of-centre academics, military personnell and the like). The main star was a visit from Carlos, a Portuguese administrator who I made friends with in East Timor and has now been there for three years. Was working for the National Parliament, now working for the Ministry of the Interior.
What work I've managed to do has been interesting. Having crunched the numbers I'm advising against upgrading SpamAssassin until we upgrade our servers. Besides, it gives me a little more time to comprehend how it all fits in with Amavis and Postfix. In the meantime, it is considered high-time to install a webstatistics package, of which AWStats seems to be the product of choice.
The tsunami toll keeps rising with 140,000 now the confirmed number of deaths. Kevin Rudd raises the question of why Burma is pretending that it's toll was so low. Meanwhile, as I thought would be the case, the real problems are just beginning; lack of safe drinking water and seasonal rains is bringing pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and skin infections were appearing along with some cases of gangrene.
In the face of existential crises, of which natural disasters must surely be counted, there is a certain inevitability that people start getting religious and for religious leaders to feed on the fear. So various Australian religious have offered their interpretations. The Anglican Dean of Sydney apparently believes that the tsunami is God's punishment on sinners, as does the chief executive of Federation of Islamic Councils. Only the President of the Hindu council rejected the notion that it was a punishment from above.
On a positive note, TRN offers the top ten technological advances for 2004. There's some interesting gadgets-to-be coming out of that...
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Heh. I think you'll be waiting a while before someone actually says something like that.... Hmmm... The idea of a progressive fundamentalist is interesting however...
Have you ever read the book of Amos?
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No, I've not read (or heard of) the book of Amos.
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Ahh, Amos.. What a clever (Old Testament) book.
Amos is prophet, fire and brimstone type. He gets his self-righteous crowd and reminds them of the heinous crimes committed by other nations against the people of Israel..
And one-by-one he ticks them off, for the Lord is indeed a vengeful god, and the crowd cheers on the punishments meted out.. and just as we reach the grand crescendo...
Now it's Israel's turn....
Interesting, Amos' prediction for the punishment to the children of Israel is more or less exactly what you described; for their oppressive practises and their religious arrogance...