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Atom bother.
I don’t know why I bother trying to upgrade sometimes, it’s just hassle. I tried installing the Blosxom ATOM module which advertises itself: [www.blosxom.com] Configuration: Configurable: some optional configuration Additional Bits Required: Author: Rael Dornfest URL: [www.blosxom.com] Category: /plugins/syndication Date: 2003-12-10 …as requiring no significant configuration; this is confirmed by a skim of the code.…
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pen update
Well I have temporarily shelved the whole pen matter, until Christmas is over, but in the interim have cleaned and resurrected my father’s 1965-vintage Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph 3065HO – not least in order to get me into the habit of carrying a potential ink-bomb around with me, and adjusting my behaviour accordingly. Last time I was…
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10 years in jail for going on strike or accidentaly causing a systems crash?
I always find draft legislation amusing; in this case I am sure my friends in the Police would be reasonably happy with the proposal because their view of the law seems to be “that which you exercise in order to nick someone who needs nicking” – rather than the cause-and-effect, behaviour-changing “absolute” law in which…
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Testing Testing 1 2 3
Hopefully this will work OK. Blosxom uses file datestamps to reflect article posting time; as part of a migration and simplification of Dropsafe internals, I am fixing the file datestamps to precisely match the posting times that are embedded in the postings. This will lead to a little RSS confusion (for which I apologise) but…
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dropsafe maintenance
due to a great renaming, dropsafe articles are currently on ice. back soon.
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superb job advert
Real, or photoshop? Click on the image for large version [www.thescorpion.co.uk]
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A Policeman’s view of a Foxhunting ban…
[coppersblog.blogspot.com] HUNTING TO BE BANNED – HOORAY! I have absolutely no qualms about arresting evil hunters-with-dogs, they should be locked up and given counselling like common criminals. […] Arresting foxhunters will be like shooting fish in a barrel (I won’t be surprised if the government try to ban that next). They will be cooperative and…
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what i am reading at the moment
A friend posed the question “whats everyone else reading? I’ll be finished this soon and need another good read!”; by way of answer this is my multiplexed input stack – ie: books I am currently reading, almost simultaneously, in an coarsely interleaved manner: [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] …and those are just the ones…
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I have worked 1/3rd of my life for Sun Microsystems
terrifying realization: me years = 36 employed at sun years = 12 eek.
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SCO and Defacement
That the defacement has occured is old news. That it appears (to me, via my browser, at the time of writing ie: 1839h today) still extant more than six-and-a-half-hours after hitting the front page of [www.theregister.co.uk] – to me, this does not bode well for the company. I personally feel that such operational slackness may…
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ooh! ooh! cillit bang in all its glory!
Someone has put the advert up for viewing at [www.geocities.com]; alas the really poor dubbing of the original advert is much less evident after video compression. My readers from across the pond probably won’t see what is so funny about this, but the joke is that (from a UK television vantagepoint) it is so qualitatively…
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After Cillit Bang…
After Cillit Bang, comes Oxiclean Kaboom! from (it seems) an entirely other manufacturer. Is this a new naming fad? Should we rename Solaris to be Sun Microsystems Zot! or similar?