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	<description>Life, Sydney, universe, several things.</description>
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		<title>A change of blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress has (and continues to be) very good to me. However, after two and a bit years, I am deprecating the now.rickeyre.com brand and freezing its blog. There&#8217;s a lot of great reading there, but from October 1 my blog address will be www.rickeyre.com/blog.
I&#8217;m now using Drupal, which offers a more comprehensive range of features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great moments in agribusiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if Australia's primary producers don't have enough problems with AWB, there has been shock and horror this week as Meat and Livestock Australia was rocked by a computer hacking scandal.]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/23/great-moments-in-agribusiness/</link>
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		<title>Sven Nykvist 1922-2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great artists of the motion picture industry died on Wednesday. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who did some absolutely splendid work for Ingmar Bergman over the years before becoming a regular member of Team Woody Allen, was 83.
Bloggage via Technorati.

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		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/21/sven-nykvist-1922-2006/</link>
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		<title>Guess who&#8217;s not at the UN?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the 61st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations this week. Heads of government from all over the world are there. George W Bush, Hugo Chavez, Thabo Mbeki, Michael Somare, Jacques Chirac, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Robert Mugabe, they're all there, including... um, Alexander Downer.]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/21/guess-whos-not-at-the-un/</link>
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		<title>Cardinal foot in papal mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About the most generous thing I can say about Pope B16's speech at the University of Regensburg last Tuesday is that he put his foot in it.]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/18/cardinal-foot-in-papal-mouth/</link>
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		<title>Going through the motions, remaining undeterred - I: Darfur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did I ever tell you Federal Parliament is a joke?]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/17/going-through-the-motions-remaining-undeterred-i-darfur/</link>
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		<title>Global day of action for Darfur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, September 17, has been declared a Global Day of Action for Darfur. dayfordarfur.org tells us that the day "was originally conceived by a group of NGOs working on Darfur and concerned about the slow response of the international community to the crisis".]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/17/global-day-of-action-for-darfur/</link>
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		<title>Another US First Amendment magic moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always thought CNN Headline News was set us as a wall-to-wall headlines bulletin channel to complement the main CNN channel. Now, it seems they have ratings-chasing O'Reillyesque attack dogs who hound people not just to their graves, but beyond.]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/17/another-us-first-amendment-magic-moment/</link>
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		<title>50 years of Australian television</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 16, 1956: Channel Nine begins transmission with station manager Bruce Gyngell (long before his pretty in pink days) uttering that profound line: "Hello, and welcome to television."]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/16/50-years-of-australian-television/</link>
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		<title>11 Sep 01, Five years on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I opened my personal recollection of the events in the US on September 11, 2001 with a quote from New York Times columnist Nicholas D.Kristof.]]></description>
		<link>http://now.rickeyre.com/2006/09/11/11-sep-01-five-years-on/</link>
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