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and then there were two…
Frosty morning today, after having picked up the new bike last night in fact it’s darned chilly back here in Blighty. The new bike can be seen at [crypticide.org] compared contrasted and secured to my old one. I am keeping both for a while, not least to maintain my insurance no-claims bonus, but also the…
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why i like working for my company
Ok, so, I am on vacation. At 0930 I get a call redirected to me from our postroom, saying that there’s a parcel which has been mailed to me, newly arrived. I ask them to deliver it to my admin Sue who makes the sun rise every morning and prevents the galaxy from falling apart.…
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this is bad
i read recently, some guy’s claim that after much experience, he could identify the encoder and bitrate used to rip a piece of music. i am beginning to see what he meant – at least the bitrates.
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bike insurance sorted
high fully comprehensive: £622 high thirdparty, fire and theft: £346 low fully comprehensive: £ 338 low thirdparty, fire and theft: £181 the winner? carole nash insurance TPFT for 181 quid, including green card (ie: european cover) breakdown and legal, with an excess of 250. the brokers are incredibly leery of the terms boat, rupp, green…
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vacation, day 3
Well, it’s still sunday, just. I’ve just watched David Blaine be released from his perspex cocoon on TV, and have basically had today as a lazing-day… but more of that anon. I am holidaying at home and have a reasonably packed schedule of gardening works to do, started last friday by a buying spree; I…
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bbc shocks muffett
Remember this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/alecm/44211.html ? Well, there I am browsing the BBC, and I come actoss the “Blaine in Pictures” item on the splash page; scroll through the slides and I find: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/entertainment_living_with_david_blaine/img/6.jpg …who is the girl herself.
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so far on the “today” pogramme:
a man (who wants to give everyone a national identity card and make them pay for the privilege, due to his inability to deal with asylum seekers) tells us that the laws he passed last time to evict nuisance neighbours (who presumably all live in rented accomodation) and keep homeless people and prostitutes off the…
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil
evil and insidiously clever: spams that look exactly like real, well-balanced, sensible and personal e-mails, and thereby cut straight through spam filters. as jeff morgan would say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil! Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:15:10 +0100 From: Robert <r.seviour@virgin.net> Subject: Reply-to: Robert <steve.weiss@virgin.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=4.6 tests=SUBJ_REMOVE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) During…