2005 Archives You'll see in the archives section above that 2005 is missing. That's some glitch that will hopefully rectify itself eventually. But in the meantime if you want to find my posts from this period they are below:
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I'm not losing sleep over the threat of terrorism in Sydney yet. But it's certainly put me on edge:
I'd just hopped on the train into the city at Stanmore station. There were only a couple of people in that particular carriage. I went to sit down and saw a black sports bag on the seat.
I immediately thought: terrorist bomb.
I saw a Citirail guy on the train a carriage or so down. I told him about it. He said he'd inform security at the next station.
I wasn't taking any chances. I walked right down to the far end of the train for the rest of the journey - just in case.
Sure, the chance of it being a bomb was remote. But still, it put the wind up me.