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Sunday, 23 June 2002

Wondering what Sydney looks like in mid-winter? Here's a picture of the sunset I took on the way home from a late, boozy Sunday lunch. Enjoy. 10:31:26 PM  comment []      Welcome to the world: Great article on Salon about the USA's involvement in the World Cup now, and in the future. Unusually humble for a piece about the US written by Americans: One of these days, we're going to win the World Cup. When that day arrives, the rest of the world will no doubt be outraged. Too bad. We will have paid our dues. We will have earned the right to hold that trophy aloft and exult like everyone else. And as our athletes hold that trophy up, if we have learned anything from the World Cup we will celebrate not our God-given superiority as Americans who have now extended our sports hegemony into the last enemy redoubt, but something very different: our ordinariness. We will celebrate the way the sport cut us down to size. We will celebrate the way it took away our advantages -- our money, our facilities, our college gladiator-training factories -- leaving us face to face with our competitors. We will celebrate the sheer dazzling equality of this sport, and our membership in the community of nations, and our humanity. And somewhere inside we will remember where it all started and all it will ever mean: a boy running along a beach, kicking a ball forward, running on ahead, kicking a ball, until he vanishes out of sight. Thanks for letting us play, world. We'll see you in four years. 6:57:08 PM  comment []      Going to Cottage Point for lunch today - it's one of my two favourite restaurants in Sydney and really shows off the beauty of the city. The other is stunning too. Oh, and you can fly to both of them by seaplane. 11:40:20 AM  comment []      Switch! hahaha very well done Flash animation - "My Name is Bill Gates, and I own a software company." ";)" [More Like This WebLog via Simon Fell] [MacBoy] [Sam Ruby] 11:38:10 AM  comment []      A developer talking about Maven - it is amazing the feelings of love and hate that Jakarta manages to bring out in developers : ... and right now I'm so disgusted by the first seven letters of the hosting domain that I'm not touching it. 11:05:46 AM  comment []