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The Smashing Pumpkins are in Australian territory this first quarter, playing at a festival that I don’t want to go to. Fortunately for us they’re playing a sidehow and the Melbourne gig looks most attractive. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and pending any technical complications (there’s a 50/50 chance) I should be able to seal the deal.

The Pumpkins occupy an interesting spot in my musical space. They’re never a band I was “in to” on account of being a little bit too young for the heavier side to resonate with me the first time around. But their hits and the lyrics I read always impressed me. In the later years I’ve had much more time for them. Aside from the music per se, they’re a important feature in the pop-landscape of the ”90s. Since I”m blogging again, who knows what kind of illicit media I’ll manage to post here after the show..’

So I’m now 23, not really much more to report than that. I’m not the only one who doesn’t see much relevance in seeing development in terms of a strict 365 day cycles. Still, it’s an opportunity to play drunken lawn bowls. At least that’’s the plan. The beer will need counteract the increased levels of caffeine now present in my body courtesy of my new espresso machine. I still cant work out why the machine makes it taste so much better! Meanwhile if you’re a StarWars Expanded Universe fan (what? you’re not?) it would be worth heading to Penny Arcade to have one of those insider laughs we rarely get.

If you head over tobio.knowledgenode.netyou’ll see the second of three pages that form what I suppose you could call a tripartite news feed. The three, solar, bio and wind, ultimately coalescing at www.knowledgenode.com to produce an overall picture of the state of renewable energies. With user input determining the more important articles, the information here is refined and collected, the process somewhat akin to skimming cream, I assume.

solar.knowledgenode.net has been running for some time now and is working nicely. For a time there were issues of display compatibility and Internet Explorer.Elroysorted it, in fact he made the whole thing. I just plug in the keywords. The third piece of the puzzle, wind.knowledgenode.net, is only just around the corner.