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31.12.2002 – Tuesday 31 December – New Year’s Eve

• New Year’s Eve.

• I had a pretty quiet and uneventful day. I stayed up until midnight – of course. I spent midnight on chat. We could hear the fire of Joneses bamboo burning from here. I started using an XML format for my journal.