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a totally non-work-safe comic strip…
…one episode of which for some reason i find so very redolent of LJ. http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/195.html beware content.
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planes, cars and shipping forecasts
I meant to write up a pile of stuff last week, but have failed to do so, and thus will try and get it all down, now. As I compose this, today is (still) Thursday. This day last week, I switched off the ADSL (gods! only had it one day and am switching it off!)…
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Coupling USA
The NBC Version of “Coupling” has a promo at http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Primetime_Preview/comedy/Coupling.shtml – if anyone can mail me the terminal URL for the RealMedia or WinMP 300k video clip, I’d e greatly obliges as the webredirector does not seem to like my Mac… Rumour has it, {Je,Geo}ff’s not so scarey… 8-(
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24×7 personal internet, first time since 1986
OK, so I have been hacking on the net in various forms since 1986 – for those who can’t do math that’s longer than some of you have been alive, some 17+ years. And, tonight for the first time, I have Internet at home like the billions of Johnnie-come-latelies that the rest of you are.…
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i’ve caved in…
…and finally started using a spreadsheet. analysis: it’s faster to prototype in than my previous solution (“awk”) – but not siginificantly more powerful in the space which I use it.
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fortnightly update
today has been an exercise in spam reduction – it’s been quiet because the entire united states is on vacation this week, so i decided to write a spam-pattern-matcher and wire it into procmail to do more intelligent filtering of my inbox. that occupied a merry two hours. now what? weekend before last was the…
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attributed news quote
At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express