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Telco Derangement Syndrome
The blackout tale continues. As I wrote last week, the blackout in my local area fried my computer’s hard drive. It may also have damaged my NBN connection. In any event, my internet went into buffering mode last Saturday morning as did my TV. Those days of climbing onto the roof to check one’s aerial…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #99
Shifting gears. In the 1968 police action film Bullitt, Steve McQueen plays Lieutenant Frank Bullitt who works as a detective in the San Francisco Police Department and, along with his team, is assigned to protect an important witness against the mob that is supposed to be presented to the anti-crime commission by up-and-coming U.S. Senator…
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Don’t want to be a doomsayer, but?!?
Multitasking, I was writing something, not this, on Tuesday night, drinking red wine, and intermittently watching TV. Out went the power in my local area. It is a shock for us city slickers. My desktop computer (incidentally the hard drive of which I later found had been ruined by the incident) sits in my enclosed…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #98
Mr. Blue, Mr. Grey, Mr. Brown and Mr. Green. Are the code names of four heavily armed men who hijack a New York City subway train and demand a ransom of $1 million for the 18 people taken hostage in the front car in the 1974 movie The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three. The…
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Yes. Interesting story behind the book as well.
All the beauty of Australian culture in under thirty seconds.
The China Show: You’re About to See China Collapse – In Fact, it’s Already Begun – Episode
The Trumps met Pope Francis during a visit to the Vatican in 2017 during the president’s first term. At the…
None of that nonsense at the GWS/Dogs game either at Manuka.