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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Absolutely stupendous APOD this morning… I think the original version at Thierry Legault’s page is even more impressive, however.
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Hammond Update
“There has been some improvement overnight, he is now listed as ‘seriously ill, withhead injuries’, but no longer listed as ‘critical’”.
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French Healthcare Costs
So I received a bill for €593.09 from St Omer hostpital, for 1 day’s care and for scraping me off the road. After scanning the document and forwarding it to Bart to confirm my translation, Bart contacted them on my behalf; as-per the handwritten note at the bottom of my bill, if I forward them…
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My Favourite 20 Words
Geoff wrote: I was updating my profile at the UK social networking site, Friends Reunited, and decided to pay attention to a question that I’d hitherto ignored: “What are your 20 favourite words”. This is what I came up with: love, peace, new, unexpected, honest, whimsy, intense, tranquil, touch, trust, humanism, experiment, imagination, learn, reflection,…
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Letter to the BBC
From: Alec Muffett To: Farming Today, at BBC Radio4 Subject: This morning’s episode. Regards the John-Humphreys-style segment this morning, wherein your interviewer spent several minutes trying to nail someone to an opinion about the nutritional benefits or otherwise of Organic Milk, as a customer I can cite one definite benefit: Organic Milk actually *tastes* like…
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Slimming photos with HP digital cameras
It’s early. My vocabulary is not up to much. So I’ll just say “this is an abomination” and leave it at that. www.hp.com Slimming photos with HP digital cameras They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is…
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Networks have no defence against Cisco Vulnerability?
Simon Bullen’s Weblog NETWORKS HAVE NO DEFENCE AGAINST CISCO VULNERABILITY So says the man who found it. Cisco has no patch either. Network managers have no defence against an unpatchable flaw in Cisco’s security equipment, according to the person who found the flaw. On Monday Cisco admitted that it could offer no patch for a…
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Sean O’Grady: Let’s be balanced on our bikes
Independent […] No bike can beat a car, even in heavy traffic. You don’t have to drive far to see cyclist taking risks with their own lives and everyone else’s, too. Cyclists mounting pavements, knocking pedestrians over. Cyclists jumping red lights and then cursing motorists who have narrowly missed them. Cyclists weaving in and out…