Another entity which shared my birthday today was the Back Pages Blog. 1 year ago Chris Sheil gave birth to his Ozplog (Australian political blog). For the past several months I have visited Back Pages, along with John Quiggin (and others), for my daily fix of Australian opinion and politics.

Today, Chris closed his blog with a useful blogging manifesto. I could follow some of his ideas, particularly the editing suggestion!

Tomorrow morning I’m off to Aleppo, Syria, for a short trip to see Bangali and Celine again. I’ll be back in the office Monday and sometime after this I will update this website all the Syrian gossip.