Posts from September 2004.

My music on a deserted island

These are the songs I would put on a solar-powered MP3 player if I was going to be stranded on a deserted island with a could only bring one single song with an artist beginning with each letter of the alphabet. (also known as “a thorough introduction to Haje’s music taste as of 1 October 2004

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Journalism Education

To what degree does journalism education benefit a career in print journalism looks at the way journalists are trained and how the various training schemes can help a journalist’s career.

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The Cathedrals of Ice

The silence is laying still, like a heavy leaden rug over the landscape. Nothing out of the ordinary, perhaps, but it seems a lot more noticable today. The silence is sharply contrasting my heartbeat, which sounds like mortar rounds beating into the vast nothingness surrounding me.
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Russian Roulette

The statistics of russian roulette are particularly interesting. If you were to play a single round (no pun indented), you have an 83.3% chance of surviving - not bad odds, everything considered. It isn’t untill you decide to keep playing that things get silly.

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Cheating Death and other tales

The story of how I had a head-on collision with a trailer in my 1990 Mini Cooper, but lived to tell the tale

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