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80,000!Wow, that was fast! Just over two months ago, I was celebrating the 70,000th visit and now I’m in 80,000 already! These last two months have been great in terms of visits and comments received, something I was kinda expecting (due to the Oktoberfest and Santa Claus parades info), but it sti... |
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Live from… São Paulo, BrazilWow, that little “ã” character is hard to find! It’s not in the ‘normal’ ASCII table, so you have to use the WinASCII table instead. In case you’re curious, you obtain it by doing +’0227’. I landed in São Paulo last night afte... |
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The girl with the yellow flip flopsIt happened a week ago, as me and my brother Martin were travelling on the 'subte' (Buenos Aires' metro). As we were approaching Diagonal Norte station, a very young girl started to walk around giving religious stamps to the passengers. I looked at her, and my heart sank: she was probably 5, ... |
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Obama: Asia Can't Rely on U.S. ConsumersObama has come half way around the world to deliver a message to East Asia: the global economy can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to keep it afloat. ... |
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Britain Plans to Tighten Rules on ImmigrationFiled under: Immigration, Woman Up, InternationalWell, it looks like Gordon Brown is finally going to make good on his controversial 2007 campaign promise: "British Jobs for British Workers." In his first major address on immigration since taking office, the prime minister outlined a se... |
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Thatcher dies – that's moggy, not MaggieThe letter of condolence was almost written before Canadian Conservatives realised some alarming news was about a catBlackBerrys flickered like summer lightning as the appalling – yet not entirely unexpected – news spread among 2,000 Canadian Conservatives gathered in Toronto for a bl... |



