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latin translation
a friend in another blog faces this challenge: Does anyone know enough Latin to translate “Nihil domestica sede iocundius” ? It was inscribed above the lintel of a house in Venice and it’s bugging me. The closest my l337 latin 5killz can get is something like “there is nothing common (domestic) in a pleasant home.”…
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The Zompist Phrasebook
I understand your language perfectly. Je parle français comme une vache espagnole. Hablo español como un gringo borracho. Ich sprechen deutsch wie italienisch Fußballtrainer. I bet those machine guns are fake. C’est du toc, toutes ces mitrailleuses. Apuesto a que estas metralletas son falsas. Ich wette, diese MGs sind Attrappen. Are all of your jails…
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bugmenot.com – newspaper registration database
Globbed from neil gaiman – are you someone annoyed by websites that demand “free registration” irrespective of whether you fit inside their typical customer demographic? Some newspapers have begun to implement a: click here if you live outside [insert name of catchment area] opt-out, but if not then take a look at [www.bugmenot.com] The only…
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weekend
As the images below illustrate, I’ve been visited by the divine Valerie over the weekend, and a most diverting time was had by all. Airport pickup and shopping led to food prep and a high tea – cucumber sandwiches on homemade bread, likewise homemade Victoria sponge cake, salads, cheeses, and … well, let’s be honest,…
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Bush and Kerry sites ‘not secure’
[news.bbc.co.uk] My advice: only vote for candidates who run Trusted Solaris and harden it using JASS. That ought to rule-out all of them. President George Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry have come under attack from a US net privacy advocate and adviser over website security. Both sites have left themselves open to online “vandalism”…
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Google sued over Orkut bug replication feature
[www.theregister.co.uk] Google’s Orkut code is stolen, says the company that its eponymous author founded and left. A lawsuit filed by Affinity Engines, co-founded by Orkut Buyukkokten, claims that there are nine unique bugs in the codebase, and that’s too much to be a coincidence. I’ve heard of bug-to-bug compatibility being used to identify software before,…
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who hasn’t yet seen…
[www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com] ? If you’re ex-pat and british, i post it here for you.