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Anti-gay preachers banned from UK
Basingstoke – just down the road. It’s a town deserving of great wrath from above, not unlike Slough. Must visit. Anti-gay preachers banned from UK A father and daughter from a US church which preaches hatred of homosexuals have been banned from entering the UK. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro…
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“My name is License. Drivers License…”
This is just priceless in so many ways, especially for those of us bent upon pointing out the uselessness of identity cards. Forget the stereotypes, too – I am pretty sure the British police forces would fare little better. The mystery of Ireland’s worst driver Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-18
listening to Oidupaa – http://tinyurl.com/blktsv # The more I consider, the more I regret that the GPL-above-all brigade have now become the Fruitarians of Open Source; they retard progress. # Actually, fruitarians don’t retard progress, I suppose… maybe that makes them better? # trying out halogen bulbs for my living room dimmer; look good, more…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-17
eek 1 Euro = 0.895818864 British pounds # microwaved haggis makes a surprisingly good, tasty, wholesome wrap # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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links for 2009-02-17
Facebook | Facebook's New Terms Of Service: Quoth: Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-16
In the US, the TSA would arrest her and press charges for terrorism: http://tinyurl.com/cschdq # The Interweb spawns its own Mornington Crescent, and I lost – http://ilostthegame.org/rules/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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The Andersen Consulting Messenger Bag
As a long-term worker in the IT industry, I’ve got a pretty good eye for loot – or l00t, even – the sort of freebies which get given away at internal conferences; Sun used to be particularly generous with t-shirts and there was/is an unofficial rule that Sun-branded clothing counts as formal office attire… or…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-14
#1234567890 charging the martini glasses with Tyrrell’s potato vodka # w00t # cat martini > /dev/fd/0 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-13
Which APC UPS is quieter, http://is.gd/jiV9 or http://is.gd/jiVj ? Am consuming 450VA + expansion, BackUPS-RS seems way to go… # tonight will be celebrating with vodka and foie-gras. what’s yours? #unix #1234567890 # I take it all back: Python is not as artful as Perl, but damn I can see why it’s being used for…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-12
ExamGrammar: “Web Tier customers are primarily concerned about speed to deploy to quickly to scale to meet growing demand in data retention” # Quoth @bbart: “Could you all please be spontaneous at exactly 9.23pm. kthxbye” – regards http://is.gd/jd0R # Astrud Gilberto ~ The Girl From Ipanema # have done and passed “Selling Sun’s Services Course…
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links for 2009-02-12
YouTube – Sushi Conveyor???????????? Sushi-Eye View Of the World. Must try, sometime 🙂
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Winchfield Station Gossip
I got back late from a trip to London on Tuesday, and fell to talking to the guard about the recent vandalism at Winchfield station. My observations: the ticket machine got vandalised a few weeks ago, and is gone, vanished the car-park ticket machine is *dead* – and was bloody awful anyway, not taking money,…