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Archaeological Excavation in Little LaTrobe Street, Melbourne ? (Updated)

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Anyone know anything about this archaeological dig in progress in Little La Trobe Street in Melbourne, just opposite the RMIT Uni Bookshop ?

Archaeological dig at Little La Trobe Street, Melbourne

There’s no signage for it but they seem to be exposing the wall lines of old buildings in what was, until recently, a car park.

Update: Here’s the last photo I have before the rescue dig ended and they started clearing the site.

Archaeological dig resumed in Little LaTrobe Street

The Pope, Atheists, Nazis and Reality

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So on his official visit to the UK the Pope apparently said:

“we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society […] As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century“

Now compare that with some quotes from Hitler (who knew a thing or two about Nazi Germany) on atheism:

“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.“

“ We have put an end to denial of God and abuse of religion.“

“ National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary, it stands on the ground of a real Christianity.“

Finally this classic from the lead up to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933:

“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.“

Doesn’t sound very atheistic to me..

Gluten Free, Dairy Free Parsley Sauce Recipe

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Tonight Donna and I cooked some fish and I thought I’d try my hand at making GFCF parsley sauce, never having made it before in any form. So a little bit of Googling got us some ideas and so we ended up making it like this:

  • Nuttelex margarine (reasonably lump)
  • 1 onion
  • bay leaf (fresh from the garden)
  • gluten free flour
  • rice milk (I think we used about 300ml)
  • Tofutti (dairy free soft soy cheese, about a desert spoon)
  • garlic salt
  • pepper
  • parsley (fresh from the garden, finely chopped)

Slice the onion then melt the margarine in a saucepan and lightly fry the onion. You are then meant to add the flour and mix it in but we forgot and added the rice milk first, so instead mixed the flour with some water in a cup to make a paste and then added it. Stir all the time. Add the tofutti and flavour with the garlic salt and the pepper. Keep stirring. Wait for it to start to bubble and add the finely chopped parsley. Stir more until ready. 🙂

First beta release of Vacation 1.2.7.1

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Vacation 1.2.7.1 beta1 is the first beta for the first bug fix only release in the 1.2.7 branch.

It contains only two bug fixes, firstly adding the Auto-Submitted: header as required by RFC 3834 and secondly stopping vacation munging the GECOS information of the user and instead just passing it in a quoted form for the MTA to deal with.

Both of these patches are from Dr Tilmann Bubeck who is the packager of Vacation for the Fedora project. I’m very grateful to him for his time and patience in submitting these!

Please grab this beta release and test it and report any problems!