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One would be a complete fool to believe anything in the international news these days. Look at this for example.

I honestly fail to find a logical reason why anybody would do something like this to ultimately undermine their own cause, and how the rest of the world is buying into it wholesale.

It was supposed to be just another typical day driving to work.

Changing gears through the morning fog, I suddenly noticed somebody following in a not-so-subtle manner. Matching my move for move, I pulled off the road into the office carpark, warily keeping an eye on the rearview mirror.

Different scenarios went through my mind as the following car did an abrupt 180 turn on the road, just outside the entrance.

The district of East Tamaki was not exactly known for its security, and break-ins have happened in broad daylight before. That's it, must be some unsavoury character looking for easy pickings...

Having heard the reassuring "clonk" of the door locks behind me, I briskly entered my office with a renewed sense of purpose and urgency. Keys were hit, and an email quickly materialised in front of every computer screen in the head office.

"Watch your possessions", it exhorted, bringing to attention this brazen, malignant plan.

Mission accomplished, I settled into the work routines of the day with a sigh of relief.

Within five minutes, the first emails of the day started to arrive in my inbox. One of them said,

"Hey. It was me. I park on the street."

I wonder whether he or I had a more embarassing day.

This post is dedicated to those who were in the Storm the Nations 2002 Tanzania team. Remember the very first village that we went to? Here it is, in all its glory in February 2006.



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Here is what happens when you cross Star Wars with Napoleon Dynamite...

Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. - Psalms 127:1

Lately I've been feeling like a wrecking ball in the house of God.

I see so much effort going on for so little... can't we just get back to basics and concentrate on the raw pursuit of the author of life Himself? Are our lifes so full of programs and accessories that they act like bugs on a windshield, obscuring our true vision?

God give me the grace to let go of the excess baggage, to live and do only what really matterth.

This sort of stuff can only happen in Hong Kong... a verbal altercation on board a bus spawns a frenzy that marketing types can only ever dream of. View the subtitled version here (NWS)

There's an introduction to The Bus Uncle from Wikipedia.

Over in metafilter there's an interesting dissection of the cultural aspects involved. Another discussion in the same site deals with a similiar sort of thing.