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How to be creative

Hugh at gapingvoid has got twelve points on how to be creative. Read it here. It very, very good.

Thanks to Tim at Bloggerheads for the link.

Computer = trouble

My PC is down, and my computer hot line (read: my IT-educated friend) is out of town. Thus I'm barred from the net. And when I'm at job there isn't much time to be blogging. But I try.

I've been working this weekend - as sports editor. In a small rural newspaper it means that I'm the only journalist working sports. And that's fine. But I can't understand why they keep putting the football matches so close to our deadline.

Joke aside. I've been working hard, and haven't been able to keep my posts coming in as usual. I will remedy this in the coming week. (Hopefully my computer hot line will be back from his vacation soon)

Naomi Klein: Anybody but Bush

Naomi Klein, the author of No Logo, has got a piece in the Guardian.

This madness has to stop, and the fastest way of doing that is to elect John Kerry, not because he will be different but because in most key areas - Iraq, the "war on drugs", Israel/Palestine, free trade, corporate taxes - he will be just as bad. The main difference will be that as Kerry pursues these brutal policies, he will come off as intelligent, sane and blissfully dull. That's why I've joined the Anybody But Bush camp: only with a bore such as Kerry at the helm will we finally be able to put an end to the presidential pathologising and focus on the issues again.

That's also a reason to vote Kerry.