alecm
alecm
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  • hmmm

    which one of these should I get, next?

  • sing ho! for the life of a biker

    my usual late sunday start, amused and informed by eddie mair on broadcasting house on bbc radio 4 – i sallie forth to seek adventure, inner peace, and nostalgia that is not my own. first stop, via farnham and gomshall and dorking to see the motorcycles on box hill, a hillock in east sussex with…

  • past history

    OK, so, what has happened for the past 10 days or so? Sunday 15th september: took my cat (Suzi) to the vet for a second checkup (post-seizure) and for her annual vaccinations; she’s been OK since the seizure, but I quit the antibiotics in case they helped cause it, even though they are generally considered…

  • cats and friday 13th

    suzi had an epileptic fit at 0300 this morning; it sounded like the was having a game of “chase me” with buster, or had a mouse in the house, but i opened the bedroom door to find her flat on her side, one leg spasmed out full length, another cramped inwards, drooling, whirling around like…

  • How well doth the little meteor shine in the dark…

    So what did I do this weekend? Well, first-up was Cropredy Folk Festival – involving getting up at 0600, driving about 70 miles northwards to Banbury and driving my shiny new car around several wet, muddy fields until I convinced myself that it would be too foolish and too much hassle to attempt to camp…

  • miscellaneous edited highlights my other blog

    i just got back from a week in the usa. intact, and feeling slightly vegetable. The flight homewards was marginally less pleasant than the one out, enlivened mostly by the presence of Paula amongst the Virgin Atlantic cabin staff, an attractive blonde woman from Northampton who immediately appealed to my sense of the absurd as…

  • quelle surprise

    Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel.

  • more links for people who want to take palladium seriously

    http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/palladium.html

  • bulwer-lytton fiction contest 2002 results

    http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm it’s a hoot; take a look: It was a long and boring flight to Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport and when Special Agent Jasper Smoot debarked and walked into the restroom marked “Dama” in Cyrillic he might have found the woman there attractive except she had more whiskers than a Civil War general and was pointing…

  • u.s. lawyers can be slapped for spanking

    http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1204079 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers’ malpractice insurers doing business in Connecticut can breathe a sigh of relief — They do not have to pay claims against attorneys who spank their clients. A federal judge has ruled spanking is not covered by lawyers’ malpractice insurance policies, even if it is done under the bizarre pretext…

  • from a fipr (foundation for internet policy research) list

    this one: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52666,00.html A Good Sequence, Easy to Dance To By Noah Shachtman Scientists may soon be downloading our DNA from Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, if a California biotech firm has its way. Companies doing genomic research, like Redwood City’s Maxygen, have a problem. To make money, the companies feel they need to control the rights…

  • more on microsoft palladium

    http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci838639,00.html Palladium is a plan from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft to build security into personal computers and servers at the microprocessor level. Assuming that enough users buy computers with Palladium capabilities, each user may now for the first time be able to effectively filter out spam, ensure that only authorized programs can ever be run…