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Bombs and phones, give me a break…
Here’s a snippit of headline and story that I have seen, in various guises, far too many times in the last 18 months: London bombs ‘set off by mobiles’ The bombs that killed 56 people in London on 7 July were probably detonated using mobile phones, New York police officials have said. They were made…
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MI5 to step-up Welsh presence
[news.bbc.co.uk] Security experts are claiming Wales will see an increased presence of the secret service MI5. The Home Office recently said the security service would establish its first ever Welsh office. One expert says the intelligence service will be especially keen to monitor potentially violent extremists on university campuses. Mmmm.
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Cat Update.
For those who have visited Chez Muffett: I have two cats, Buster (Grey/White male) and Suzi (Tabby/White female); they’re about 13 years old, and Suzi is fit as ever, if occasionally erratic with epileptic fits. Buster has started to go downhill – he’s lost a lot of weight and is perhaps 2 or 3 pounds…
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Product Review: Rema Tip-Top Rep-Air Puncture Repair Kit
My recent midsummer visit to Norway was disrupted by a flat tyre. There was I tearing along some beautiful, snow-dusted mountain roads when all of a sudden I felt the bike “go soft” – countersteering was not working properly, there was a distinct lack of responsiveness through the bars, and the rear suspension was suddenly…
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story of my life…
Wednesday: Call insurer, book car windscreen replacement prior to upcoming “MOT” annual vehicle inspection – reason: a small chip in the windscreen that had previously been repaired but is now starting to spread in a radial, starburst pattern of cobweb-like cracks. Thursday: RAC Auto-Windscreen team arrive, do windscreen replacement, seems like a good job. Friday:…
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more popular photos
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:21:22 +0800 From: Smiley Nana Subject: Can I? I like this picture of yours – [www.crypticide.com] – can I use it in the header of my blog template? Thanks. Nana …strictly it is my photo of a Banksy [more] in its context, viz: a pillar of the railway archies on…
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In Retrospect: Now That We Know What Happened Next …
Just to recap what has been published previously on the BBC website, because with hindsight it makes the Menezes incident really tragic. (my emphasis, added) [news.bbc.co.uk] – Published 22nd July 2005 Scotland Yard said the man shot dead at about 1000 BST on Friday in Stockwell had still to be formally identified. […] The man…
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The War On Terror – As Viewed From Bourne Shell
$ cd /middle_east$ lsAfghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAEAlgeria Israel Morrocco Sudan YemenBahrain Jordan Oman SyriaEgypt Kuwait Palestine TunisiaIran Lebanon Qatar Turkey$ cd Afghanistan$ ls bin Taliban $ rm Talibanrm: Taliban is a directory$ cd Taliban$ lssoldiers$ rm soldiers$ cd ..$ rmdir Talibanrmdir: directory “Taliban”: Directory not empty$ cd Taliban$ ls -a. .. .insurgents$ chown -R…
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Appropriate postscript to the Menezes affair?
There’s a lot of pro-shooting, anti-shooting, it could happen again hot air going on, but I find this most apt as a summary of my views: [news.bbc.co.uk] Surely the most frightening thing is how quickly we have come to share the terrorists’ evident belief that innocent people must die. Robin Saltonstall, Beverley, UK