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Today is Oscar’s birthday. We can’t believe that it has been a full year since his hurried arrival at RPA hospital!

Oscar is celebrating today by playing with his new bus and fire truck, and eating mushed-up Weet Bix. Tonight we will continue our family tradition by taking him out to a restaurant of his choice.

On Saturday he had a great party, celebrating with friends and families his greatest milestone yet. But the attention is fleeting… his sister Liana has her party in only three days’ time!

So Tony Wilson thinks it’s OK for schools to teach that God doesn’t exist, but not OK for them to teach that he does (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/06/1073268031323.html). If he was genuinely committed to atheism then he would welcome the opportunity for his world-view to compete with the other philosophical and religious “truths”.

If we want to provide our children with a balanced and well-rounded education, then we need to resist the secularist pressure to censor religious teaching in our schools.

In a world full of drugs, our society has given approval to certain substances over others. Heroine is illegal yet nicotine is not. Marijuana is forbidden, alcohol is permitted. Amphetamines are out, yet caffeine is in. So, choosing from the legal options before me, my stimulant of choice is caffeine.

You can imagine my excitement to read that coffee is in fact good for me! In today’s Sydney Morning Herald, (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/07/1073268070789.html), a US study is quoted as saying that “people who gulp several cups of coffee a day can greatly lower their risk of developing diabetes later in life.”

Feels like time for a coffee, wouldn’t you say? Not that I really needed any excuse…!

The term ‘blog’ is a shortened form of ‘Web Log’. It was made famous by the anonymous ‘blogger’ of the Gulf War, Salam Pax, who gave his own version of the news from the perspective of someone on the ground in Iraq.

My Blog is remotely unlikely to ever attract that kind of interest or excitement. Yet, I’ve always wanted a spot that I could scribble down my thoughts on anything… so this blog is the place!

Be sure to check back from time to time to see what makes it into my blog!

I am pleased to announce that I have installed a new news system that will allow easy updates to the website. I’m very excited about it, as I had to install a perl script running on my server… and it worked first time!

Sorry if that bit of techno blurb was boring to you… but you can see one of the things that makes me tick!