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lindt monteliemar nougat chocolate. good stuff.

As the attentive (or at least, the quick) amongst you will have worked-out by now, I have signed onto [www.orkut.com] – which, it seems – is some sort of Google-backed social networking tool. Now I tend to hold these sorts of tools in mild suspicion; I’d already received two, perhaps three invitations to join Orkut…

So I get this mail from friend in the USA, who for some reason reads British newspapers, can’t think why, and having exchanged e-mail on the dearth of good, single men in the DC Metro area in a previous e-mail, she sends me a Grauniad URL with the note Apparently there’s a problem all over.…

pictures of the first google hardware [web.archive.org] Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days [www.ccs.neu.edu] More Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld [slate.msn.com] [slate.msn.com] Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld is a poet, as many Slate readers know. He is also something of a philosopher, and sometimes he combines his two intellectual hobbies. Here is a selection…

<alecm> orkut food communities <alecm> 1: sushi <alecm> 2: wine <alecm> 3: chocolate <alecm> 4: beer <alecm> 5: veggie <alecm> 6: malt <alecm> 7: indian <alecm> 8: coffee <alecm> 9: tea <alecm> 10: san francisco <alecm> hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[www.faqs.org] RFC 1 – Host Software Network Working Group Steve Crocker Request for Comments: 1 UCLA 7 April 1969 Title: Host Software Author: Steve Crocker Installation: UCLA Date: 7 April 1969 Network Working Group Request for Comment: 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. A Summary of the IMP Software

…and all the little icedrops are about the size of marrowfat peas, a little smaller than chickpeas/houmous; and they are aggregations of smaller ice-balls, the each whole being shaped like button mushroom or teardrop.

Friday Night: I bailed out of work after talking telescopes with Glenn for half an hour; he’d just got one for his 15 year service award, and wanted to know what he could see. Dinner was at the Bel And The Dragon in Godalming with Grim & Holly, Steve, Birthday Boy Jon, Nobby, and a…

i’ve written elsewhere about the vandalism of the 7000+ year old rollright-stones circle on april 1st; my friend jane hopkins posted a link to some photos of the damage, taken at the weekend: [wyrdswell.co.uk] i suppose there is some small consolation that the damage will pass/erode eventually, but for the next few thousand years it…

extracted from a pointer at [found.pale.org] Microsoft’s Gates dethroned as world’s richest person by cheap furniture magnate [www.theregister.co.uk] All hail Ingvar Kamprad! The Swedish founder of the IKEA furniture chain has passed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as the world’s richest person, according to reports out of Sweden. Business weekly Veckans Affarer is set to report…

For all your phone-number-to-irritating-mnemonic needs! [phonespell.org]