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clive suggested this: [www.livejournal.com] alas a web-trawling google-bombing pagerank-breaking link-making advertising engine already beat him to the punchline: [www.carpets.all-rugs.com]

brad: So, what up? alecm: i got a little more drilling done yesterday, only to have a panic when (unrelated) my mains water got shut off alecm: turned out it was a neighbour in another building doing a house extension alecm: switched off at the main, warned everyone else, but finding nobody at home at…

For those of you wondering why my articles are coming up in RSS again, I am moving all my content under a “/dropsafe/” metadirectory in case at some time in the future I choose to change content management systems. You will soon be restored to normal service.

I was driving past/through farnborough several times at the weekend, including past the new Frank Whittle[1] memorial statue – a fullsize model of the first jet aircraft, set in the midst of a roundabout next to a field. There was a Pied Wagtail perched atop the engine intake, as if just to show us who…

i’m pretty certain i’ll need to reference these in the next six months or so: first delurking on usenet, 1 october 1990 [groups.google.com] first sigblock, 4 october 1990 [groups.google.com] JANET aem@uk.ac.aber INET: aem@cs.aber.ac.uk (or possibly aem@aber.ac.uk) UUCP: …!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!aem ARPA: aem%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk aem%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: <play around with aem%aber@ukacrl, ok?> SNAIL: Alec Muffett, Computer Unit, Llandinam Building, UCW…

Want one! [www.theapplecollection.com]

cute: [www.slimdevices.com]

[www.glasnost.de] Why? Purely as an educational exercise? Or did they fear Caribou of Mass destruciton?

[whacked.net]

because the following from the list at [www.spy.org.uk] would have all applied to me as a child: Missed medical appointments Bad Behaviour in School Learning Difficulties Involvement in Anti-Social Behaviour Denies part in /does not believe commits Anti-Social Behaviour Non-constructive spare time / Easily bored Social Isolation Victim of Bullying or Discrimination Other …or as…

Personally – on the basis of those natives I’ve met – I tend to view Oz as a land of rampant individualists; I am surprised that they let this sort of thing go on: From [www.csamuel.org] Linux Australia has published the first draft of their position paper on US – Australia “Free” Trade Agreement and…

[www.coker.com.au] The aim of this is to demonstrate that all necessary security can be provided by SE Linux without any Unix permissions (however it is still recommended that you use Unix permissions as well for real servers). Also it gives you a chance to login to a SE machine and see what it’s like. When…