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Monday, 2 December 2002

Die Another Day ::

Saw Die Another Day Saturday night. It’s everything one has come to expect from a Bond movie, one edge-of-the-seat-gripping action sequence after another, stunning scenery, cool gadgets, funny double-entendres in banter. C noted, and I agreed, it was good to see non-stereotypically portrayed female characters. ...

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More on airline checkin systems ::

Mark O’Neill referenced my earlier entry about this in documenting another incident involving airline checkin systems. ...

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Venice, Van Gogh, and gardens ::

Saturday morning’s Ithaca Journal ran an AP photo of Venice’s Piazza of San Marco flooded (not these vacation photos, but similar except in cloudy daylight). Italy’s going to spend $450M to postpone Venice’s sinking into the ocean. I told my parents about B having mentioned the flooding and the funny coincidence that had followed in Amsterdam. ...

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