"I don't particularly care if anyone has opposing views - that's what's going to happen."

Oh, Rudd. Bad start!

I'm so close to finishing my thesis that I'm having horrible visions of all files and all backups spontaneously deleting themselves, somehow. And thoughts popping through my brain of actually deleting it myself, like that feeling when you walk over a bridge and imagine throwing your phone off into the river below. I have had confirmation that other people have thought this too.

I also woke up one morning last week and, in my sleepy state, tried to convince myself that my need to take a leak was in fact a cultural cosntruction. Step back. Step back.

Aaaaggh. I heard this on the radio a few days ago, but thought ''it cannot be true...'. Shannon Noll and Natalie Bassingthwaighe (or whatever) covering the immortal Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush duet, Don't Give Up. We truly live in the nation of the inauthentic copy. I am speechless. This just distills everything bad about everything.

Unlike Clinton, Bush sees Hanoi in a Bit of a Hurry (NY Times)

Ever wondered what makes Sam from Sam and the City an "exciting young Australian writer", as she claims in her presumably self penned bio?

"Luv ‘n txt is the first ever published guide to the new phenomenon of text dating, a witty and edgy romp through the love-crazed world of SMS messaging. The book covers everything from how to use text to get a D8, using text to keep a D8, and even how to use txt to ditch a D8. A dictionary of common SMS terms and abbreviations as well as a comprehensive guide to the use and creation of emoticons is included. Covering the txt slip-ups of celebrities Kate Moss, Paris Hilton, Shane Warne and David Beckham and describing the tragically hilarious situations such slip-ups have created, advice is given on how to avoid common txt slip-ups like the drunken txt and txting to the wrong number ... oops! ;-P"

Note that she also incorrectly uses 'lieu':

"Yet despite being a generation who flits from relationship to relationship and delays marriage in lieu of fast hookups and casual sex, it seems we're all still striving for one common goal: to love and be loved. As the age old axiom goes, "The heart wants what the heart wants".

I'm not normally interested in grammar myself, but she irritates me so...

This man has children...

Possibly after watching that Ashley Judd movie, OJ milks that whole double jeopardy thing and writes a book titled "if I DID IT: this is how I did it"... It's gonna take a lot of family counselling to explain that to the kiddies.