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Playing tonight at a Corporate gig in the USA – the video says it all: [www.letslounge.com]

this will go over the heads of so many of my friends and relations: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT13/refresh/AL1303W+GIF/162058W.gif

Well, depending what blog you read, you’ll know i have been away for a week visitng the USA; this has mostly involved working 0700h through to 2000h for four days, and until 1700 on the last day. trip highlights: getting off the plane, going shopping at rei, and then going hot-tubbing with dave, valerie and…

is it really too bourgeoise to have 526Gb hung off your home system ?

i upturned a garbage-can lid on some bricks, to make a crude birdbath on the back lawn. buster has taken to sitting on the grass, with his feet up on one of the bricks, gazing down into it – presumably at the reflection of the cat staring back at him?

I mounted my work filestore via Samba on MacOS, and created a couple of files in my HTML publishing directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 20961 Sep 3 12:00 tmp.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 42554 Sep 3 11:53 tmp.ps …these are the permissions seen verbatim, as seen on my laptop. I shared the URL with some…

[www.maydaymystery.org] Anyone been to U.Arizona? The Game seems to revolve around May 1st, commonly known as May Day. It has some connection to an old, possibly Druidic holiday known as Lamas day. The solution to solving the puzzle lies within unraveling a series of complex, detailed, and interwoven pages that are printed every May 1st…

next time you encounter a webpage that is touting for mail addresses (to which it will no doubt send spam) consider subscribing two users: postmaster@localhost and abuse@localhost …you never know, it might work.

Hi All, It’s been a bank-holiday here in the UK, so today (tuesday) is the first that I have been in work this week. I decided that I needed some time off, so took an extra day last friday and made it a four-day weekend; that said, friday itself was mostly a matter of lazing…

and received about 1800 messages in that time. of these, approximately: 1130 are spam and viruses 600 are bounced mails, mailer-daemons and people falsely warning me that i sent them a virus (1130+600)/1800 == (0.961111111111111) …and so approximately 96% of my e-mail is rubbish.

a young female blackbird is digging through the compost heap outside my bedroom window, and sneezing repeatedly as she does it. i’ve never seen a bird sneeze, before. maybe she has hayfever?

i’ve just got home after the first rain for several weeks. the petrichor is amazing, like mushrooms and basements.