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Peter Norman died in Melbourne yesterday at the age of 64. He should be regarded as one of Australia's greatest sporting legends. He probably won't be.
At a time when Australia's prowess on the athletics track was in decline, Norman's crowning achievement was to win the silver medal in the 200 metres at the Mexico Olympics in 1968. The gold medallist in that event was Tommie Smith, the bronze medallist John Carlos.
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Ranjan Madugalle's verdicts in the Inzamam ul-Haq hearing last week were no surprise to me. I expected the ball-tampering charge to be chucked out, and likewise I expected Inzi to be found guilty on the disrepute charge of not returning to the field. The four match suspension seems reasonable enough. The full text of the judgment can be found on the ICC website.
Madugalle dismissed the charge, saying:
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A special cheerio to those of you who are visiting this website via Patrick Kidd's cricket blog at The Times, "Line and Length". Patrick picked up on my item on Anthony Albanese's cricketing analogy to fighting global warming. (And no, I don't go trawling Hansard every night for quotes, I happened to see Albo on the tele giving the speech in question.)
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Come in, Technorati!
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Wordpress has (and continues to be) very good to me. However, after two and a bit years, I am deprecating the now.rickeyre.com brand and freezing its blog. There's a lot of great reading there, but from October 1 my blog address will be www.rickeyre.com/blog.
I'm now using Drupal, which offers a more comprehensive range of features than Wordpress, which is a great program if you only want to blog. Drupal is also the CMS I use for the two church websites that I have worked on recently.
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Life is full of ironies. An AFL grand final without a Melbourne team, and an NRL grand final without a Sydney team. In a year when I have become more and more apathetic about rugby league, today I am going to my first-ever Sydney rugby league grand final.
I should say, however, that it's really the Premier League fixture, the second curtain-raiser of the day at Telstra Stadium, that is my main attraction. Newtown (who, to be fair, is a glorified Sydney Roosters Reserve Grade this year) take on Parramatta. A remarkable comeback for a club that was kicked out of the NSWRL comp in 1983, went broke, re-emerged through minor competitions and became something of a cause celebre for the anti-Super League true believers.
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Wordpress has been (and continues to be) very good to me. However, after two and a bit years, I am deprecating the now.rickeyre.com brand and freezing its blog. There's a lot of great reading there, but from October 1 my blog address will be www.rickeyre.com/blog.
I'm now using Drupal, which offers a more comprehensive range of features than Wordpress, which is a great program if you only want to blog. Drupal is also the CMS I use for the two church websites that I have worked on recently.
Bear with me as I work out the new navigation and theme.
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Never mind the Inzamam story in the screengrab (below) from the BBC Online cricket homepage this morning (and I'll have more to say about that once I've read the full judgment). I want you to take a look at the first item in the line that begins "Key Information":
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As if Australia's primary producers don't have enough problems with AWB, there has been shock and horror this week as Meat and Livestock Australia was rocked by a computer hacking scandal.
The head of the MLA's Livestock Investigation Unit has been forced to resign after... wait for it... a poll on the Rural Press Farmonline website was tampered with by users of computers on two IP addresses owned by MLA.
