Nice frock, love.
May 21, 2005
Portugese Point Returner
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After The Austrians’ Scores
And the UK have nothing yet. It may improve.
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Past Winners and their lyrics
“All I am is you and all you are is me”
Utter bollocks. It’s reasons like these that I don’t admit that all I am is a songwriter, and all songwriters are is me.
And computer programmers. They are me too.
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Power Out
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This laptop just turned itself off. I think it’s a battery issue.
Still, fucking exciting.
Anna’s doing the minute by minute. HERE!
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- Yay, the nation's favourite.professional.blogger did such a good job of the Royal Wedding.... - Karen
Croatia Can’t Win
We’ve got the little reviews, and I think that Croatia can’t win. Really, they can’t. I’ll watch this with interest.
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Missed All The Good Stuff
Just arrived back from the Indian. I love that post-Jalfrezi feeling.
And it seems that I’ve missed the 24 Eurovision songs. My intentions of minute-by-minute excitement-relay are squashed.
I’ll do my best to give you a few dozen posts by the end of the night though.
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Outside the Law
China’s prisons produce everything from green tea to coal, paperclips to footballs, medical gloves to high-grade optical equipment.
The Chinese system of re-education through labour is not actually considered to be part of the criminal justice system; it’s just an administrative way of dealing with society’s unacceptable element. A relic of the Mao era, Reform Through Labour allows the police to imprison someone without going through the system – this means they have no access to courts, lawyers, or appeals. It also means that the Chinese can claim that China prohibits export of products made with prison labour, since these institutions are not technically prisons.
And as they are neither prisons nor recognised production facilities, they completely escape international monitoring, which results in the lowest of living and working conditions, in a country where living and working conditions are already horrifically low.
Aside:
Fair Trade Jeans?
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A nice cup of tea
I used the last of my swiss francs in a vending machine in Zurich airport, to purchase a thirst-quenching carton of ice tea. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the extra properties that had been hidden round the side of the container…
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