Dropsafe

a day of housecleaning and shoppery, followed by a hurricane. or at least, that’s what it sounds like at the moment. how’s you doing?

…old friend Marcus Ranum posits that it may well have been an al-Quaeda whale, combining biological / bacterial terror weapons and suicide bombing in a single convenient package.

buster just came to me to complain: the cat flap had frozen shut.

There is a page at Kevin Smith’s website [www.viewaskew.com] which features a clip – formerly only available on DVD, and then only with basic audio – that puts a rather different spin on Azrael’s bar-room scene. “Evil is an Abstract”.

Subject: blog clipping regarding “outsourcing” an interesting read at [www.ftrain.com] – not least as commentary upon and a pointer to another article… Initially, I found The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution to be a breath of fresh air. The article seeks to see the growing debate over outsourcing (call centers, programming services, etc.) not…

Was the term “next generation” quite so prevalent in business circles *before* the first sequel series to Star Trek was broadcast?

[www.onelook.com] – A Reverse Dictionary Subtly different enough from a Thesaurus for me not to get snippy about calling it one.

I went to the Thames Vale Advanced Morotcyclist ball last night, and even though I was very smartly kitted out I still managed to be under-dressed – there was far too high a proportion of tuxedos and black tie for me to be considered formally attired, but I was good enough to pass muster, and…

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1) I still treat Macromedia Flash as rather dubious when it comes to matters of accessability and shop-frontage, but I enjoy its creative uses, and have found the attached animation rather amusing: [www.rockstargames.com] which is linked from [www.rockstargames.com] 2) The father of a dear friend has recently died; I have yet to respond to a…

the aussies are right: the brits love to whinge, complain, carp and gripe. case in point: at tvam this morning, i was outside, and struck up a conversation with an xt660 owner who was appraising my zook. it was one of those british, embarrassed, stumbling conversations, me seeking traction in the conversation but getting nowhere……