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THE INSIDER
(Business Day (South Africa) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)THE INSIDER Can't blame them, but you can laugh at them AS MUCH as he hates to broach the subject on the morning of the first day of a cricket Test, The Insider has been begged by numerous concerned readers to publish a selection of Australian takes on Sunday's game.
All in the interests of providing a diversity of opinion, of course. Not to mention reminding us all of the dangers of counting one's chickens before they're laid, let alone hatched.
From The Australian's website, four to five hours after the match had ended: Ponting and his fellow batsmen utterly subjugated a shell-shocked South African attack already weakened by the prematch loss of Shaun Pollock (back spasms). It is now in need of intensive counselling before the first test begins in Cape Town on Thursday. And another version, on the same site, that apparently also made the first print edition on Monday morning: Ponting's highest limited-overs score of 164 came as part of a powerhitting exhibition that stunned a full house at Wanderers and crushed the South Africans' resolve. And the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday: It should come as little surprise that Ponting's return from injury for the last three games coincided with Australia's return to the win column. Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones quoted in The Hindu newspaper: This knock of 434 is greatest in the ODIs and might not be conquered ever. The way Australia is murdering their opponents makes them invincible. Hi-tech high jinks KEVIN Mitnick, the world's most notorious hacker who eventually turned over a new leaf, was the guest speaker at an ITWeb conference on security last week. Mitnick now advises businesses on how to keep people like him outside their networks.
It seems he is losing his edge. Mitnick told how he recently received a call from a man named Jerry, who asked if he was speaking to the Kevin Mitnick.
When Mitnick answered in the affirmative, Jerry asked if he remembered using a wireless laptop in a Starbucks coffee shop in Los Angeles the previous month. Turns out that Jerry was also there, sniffing the wireless network, and managed to infiltrate Mitnick's e-mail. My passwords got captured, a sheepish Mitnick confessed. I walked in, and 30 seconds later someone had my credentials. Well, that's reassuring for the rest of us. Eina! THE German word schadenfreude, roughly translated to mean pleasure derived from others' misery, is widely considered to have no English equivalent. (Some suggest epicaricacy, derived from the Greek for evil joy, but The Insider has an aversion to words he cannot pronounce.) Now, thanks to Fear Factor SA, we at least have a two-word phrase: reality television. Quirky quote IS MAN one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
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