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For all fans of Charlotte – I am aware of several amongst my colleagues – Steve Elliott mentioned this last night, at a BBQ over at his house: On Broadcasting House this week we wanted to pay homage to al-Jazeera’s new English-language network. As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery we thought it would…

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Arthroscopy done, sodding enormous screws out (alas not allowed to keep them, approximately M8-size 75mm hollow bronze screws with ball-head hex insert) – small loose fragment of bone-encased-in-cartilage was removed, probably was the cause of the clicking. Painkillers wearing off, knee feels like it’s been whapped with a cricket bat, but spinal anaesthetic was much…

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An 0630 alarm clock — and today I’ve reconfigured my home network, rebuilt my old G4 iMac, made bread, disassembled a pile of stuff to sell on Ebay, finished porting a blog from Typepad (vile) to WordPress (less vile) , encrypted a 200Gb volume, done a load of laundry, mowed the lawn, weedkilled a border,…

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Hilarious – even, I suspect, for my God-Squaddy friends… 10 things I hate about Commandments via Charlie from Colorado.

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Via Joerg came this link to Adam Leventhal, regarding Sun’s Open-Sourced “DTrace” software, and Linux, and what happens when some in the Linux community runs headlong into some desirable technology which is not apparently “ritually clean” enough for them to adopt: Last week at OSCON someone set up a whiteboard with the heading “Tools We…

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So I was chatting with a friend about a little electronics project I have in mind, and (after a fairly dense overview of what I have in mind) he asks for a picture [1] showing how things would fit together… I could make the sketch on a piece of paper and then go hunt for…

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At http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/72157601188592717/

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From mini-AIR; he who writes the book, makes the rules… Investigators Sally Shelton passes on news from investigator Robin Leech, who passes on news from an entomologists’ discussion: “Neil Evenhuis described a new species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) from the US Southwest. It is named Phthiria relativitae, n.sp. pronounced Theory O’ Relativity.” Dr. Evenhuis is…

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That sounds like R2D2 on his wedding night – Hamish Blake on abc‘s Spicks and Specks, describing the sound of the Theremin

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I don’t even wear a watch, and I still think these look cool… http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/4/profiles/Haruo-Suekichi/ Yes, right, yes… so I didn’t sell a single one, and my master told me, well, if you don’t sell them, you won’t make any money, so find some way to sell them. So I went to a flea market with…

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Warning: insane kitty cuteness ahead: Lynn Voedisch, journalist, author, and wife of friend and colleague Dr Brad Blumenthal, has been writing-up their efforts to capture some of the stray feral kittens in their neighborhood: If the Xanga photo editor will let me, I will show you the kittens who are in our backyard. BTW, they…

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