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This is fabulous: [www.crummy.com] OK, this one takes some explaining. Almost 10 years ago Newt Gingrich wrote an article for his PAC that contained big lists of positive and negative buzzwords for use in political discussion. The point, as is usually the case in politics, was to put attitudes directly into people’s heads by piggybacking…

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[www.lingula.org.uk] [www.livejournal.com] [found.pale.org] [found.pale.org] more links in updates, as conditions warrant. Update: Jim’s put a pile of good piccies at http://www.pale.org/photos/Cropredy2004/ – and in one of his captions asks why it is that I tend to look straight into the camera when people are taking photos of me. Answer: I learned from personal observation that…

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testing 1 2 3 … Just back from Cropredy Folk Festival – details to follow in another posting. In the meantime, I am now onto my second wheel of Godminster Organic Cheddar [www.godminster.co.uk] – cracking stuff, double-waxed, and the first waxed cheddar I’ve encountered which has not appeared to have “sweated” at any point in…

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Spotted by my mate, Bart… [news.bbc.co.uk] Schroeder visits father’s grave German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has started a two-day visit to Romania and Bulgaria with a visit to the grave of his father. Mr Schroeder never knew his father, Fritz Schroeder, a soldier who died fighting in Romania in 1944. […] Local farmer Ion Valean, 73,…

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I’ve worked in Sun Professional Services EMEA for my longest contiguous period of my employment inside Sun; I moved from SunLabs into SunPS back in, what, late98 / early99 ? Basically about half of my career at Sun. Prior to that I was in Systems Administration, then the Network Security Group (internal net.cops), then Network…

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What’s On Your Plate(R) with Willie Munchright [www.mcdonalds.com] I am sure there’s an applicable eposide of South Park.

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why do so many international hard-liquor drinks taste of aniseed? (pastis, advocaat, absinthe, ouzo …) – is it just because (as my mate Bart suggested) the taste is strong and can survive amateur distillation?

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Shamelessly stolen from [www.jumbojoke.com] but deserving of wider coverage not least because it is so resonant of modern corporate politics. I have not the knowledge of whether it truly was penned by Wellington, but the matter is widely discussed on the web. [www.military-quotes.com] [www.bemyastrologer.com] To The British Foreign Office In London Central Spain, August 1812…

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The Crypticide project continues – there have been shake-ups at my work and in my private life which have severely eaten into the free time I have to think and write deep thoughts in my evenings, but they should be back on track RSN. In the interim, I’ve decided to make things hard for myself,…

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This paragraph, erm, stands out to British readers: While the commission did not say that a “dry hump” is always within the bounds of the commission’s rules on broadcast propriety, the panel did note that “both characters are fully clothed, and there is no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used…

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…here is one of a trio of scans from a visit to the Elan Valley outside Aberystwyth, on my old 125cc back in the Autumn of 2002: The other – small and larger – images are at [www.crypticide.com] ; pictures from a Minox GT-E on Kodak Gold 200, scanned on a Epson 4870.

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