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Sun Policy on Public Discourse http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/Policy or http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/blogs/policy.html (History of) Making Sun Policy http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/PolicyMaking Jonathan Schwartz: Sun adopts RSS http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1544882,00.asp Business Blogging: Innovate or Die http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/blogs/post20060530225339.comments

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Exactly how many articles should be held in the feed which a website syndicates to its readership via RSS, ATOM and the like? It’s a simple question, but actually rather harder to answer without succumbing to the risk of Worse Is Better thinking[1]. Below, I attempt to answer the above question, and I announce some…

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In today’s post-Christmas resync with my friends and colleagues, my friend Efi in Lisbon forwarded me the following; it’s pretty powerful stuff – some may consider bits of it not “work safe”. And this by a 17 year old. <Efi> http://minanguelova.blogspot.com/ <Efi> she is 17 <Efi> a daughter of a very good friend of mine…

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With respect to the NoKA Chocolate Article I pinged my friend Rob The Foodie with the URL of the former, and he responded in a manner too cute for words: Wow. Great article… and it appears you’ve drawn in the actual perps to your comments 🙂 The whole “snakeoil” / “security by obscurity” thing comes…

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Links below; if the annotations are not done before you read this, forgive me. They’ll be sorted. Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day

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I have a “shite old bike” (TM) which is defined by it’s characteristic of being a bit grubby and naff, and therefore likely to still be at the railway station when I get home in the evening. Specifically it’s a 21-speed 1992 Raleigh Amazon bicycle with cheap-ass Shimano 100GS shifters/cables, and Shimano BL-200 centre-pull brakes.…

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If you’re into chocolate and are in the USA, read this – particularly the linked article – because it’s eye-opening. $2,080 per pound, for remoulded couverture? Eek!

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If he can ride a bike, he can present TV. More Top Gear soon. Yay! I am waiting until the New Year. BBC News Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said it was “fantastic” to ride a motorbike for the first time since his near-fatal jet-car crash in September. He told Motorcycle News he had…

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I feel bad. Alas.

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I grew up with a phone exactly like this. It was a pain to use. If you were phoning into local radio quiz competitions, you had to use a pen to dial since the dialer holes were too small and wore your finger out. It got chucked when my parents exchange went DTMF. Apparently it…

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…whilst going on vacation to Canada with the family:- SCHOOL IN CHELTENHAM I went to school in Cheltenham At a fashionable Ladies’ College Where I learnt what’s what And acquired a lot of Exceedingly practical knowledge Our reading; writing, ‘rithmetic Was positively mediocre But we got pretty slick At the three card trick And we…

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