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Irony – The Day After Tomorrow
It's amusing that, since I wrote the last post, I have been watching the movie The Day After Tomorrow on television. I've posted previously about the stupid science of the movie, although it's useful for stimulating some public thought about the unpredictable consequences of climate change. Most ironic is that the movie was produced by…
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Those who believe that climate change is a myth
In the last few days I've noticed some vehement views against the existence of human caused climate change in a couple of arms of News Ltd owned newspapers. The highlighted letter of the day in one of this week's issues of MX was David of Cronulla stating strongly that climate change was a lie, followed…
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New look home page
I got tired of the very plain home page for allrite.net and decided to give it a refresh on Sunday. I wanted to improve the visual appearance and provide links to more content within the site. After trying, without luck, to get code using the PEAR::XML_RSS package to extract RSS feeds (must be missing some…
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More translation fun!
"Shanghai, a coastal haven located midway on China's mainland…" – CNTO Tourist Map of Shanghai And I always imagined a coastal haven to be a small town on the beach… The Korea Tourism Organisation's Korea Seoul Tourist Map's Jeju-si City section displays one location as the Myeongdoam Tourist Recuperation Pasture. Somewhere to graze after a…
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Going our own way
Only one month to go! Last Saturday Flight Centre held another of their Travel Expos at Darling Harbour. Unable to resist, we caught the train down to the city for a look-see. We picked up some free maps of Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, along with brochures for Macau. The $1500 fare to Paris via Shanghai…
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What kind of hotel is this?
"If you are my bosom friend in the world, then let's meet each other in International Hotel." – Yichang International Hotel website
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