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"Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" arrived on DVD – delighted that one DVD is "Le Film" and the other "Bonus" #

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@JimAnning Likewise, and thanks for the link-up 🙂 in reply to JimAnning # Watching #meteorwatch for Perseid updates. # Using #VirtualBox to try out a OpenSolaris 2009.06 update straight to "dev" so I can practice before trying to fix my home server for real. # Latest #VirtualBox is absolutely stonking on OSX, the latest Ubuntu

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Has anyone a solution for Adium talking to MSN and burping "Message could not be sent because [various errors]" & re-requestion auths? # @Suw Heard that story. Can't believe that the final arbiter of county boundaries is a postal address / it's presence on dead-tree-mail. in reply to Suw # (excuse s'puriou's apostrophe's) # oh

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If a friend bought something online with a VISA card, and the vendor is bogus, how long is it until the transaction cannot be canceled? # Serious thunderbolt, no rain yet. Weather is weird… # Does anyone near Fleet want a serviceable pair of UK size 12 Wellies? Else they'll get trashed or be used

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Blog: meta-Atheism, dextro-Atheism and laevo-Atheism http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4306 # Or you could tell them on 4square: RT @bbctech: A visit to a booby-trap webpage tells attackers your exact location http://bit.ly/9XQ1Jd # On the #illumos webinar – semi-liveblogging; I know what I am hoping for it to be, but speculation wouldn't be helpful # #illumos talk starting, garrett

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So I was having a conversation in my blog comments, where I opined: I find it understandable but inevitably curious that you put it like that – “walking away from faith” as if faith (in some kind of God) was something concrete, tangible and useful. I understand you believe that but it’s a perspective that

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@newsbrooke Might be a defensive policy mechanism; too many instances of "Show Changes" on DOC, XLS, leading to red faces. in reply to newsbrooke # @newsbrooke What they'd need is 1) Education 2) A format that does disclose the data, sans-jokes/typos/history; & is machine readable in reply to newsbrooke # @chrisgerhard Have you got some

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Just back from Hartley Wintney Parish Council (2 Aug 2010) Many residents in and around Fleet, Dogmersfield and Hartley Wintney are aware of a back-door entrance to Fleet Services (up Pale Lane) providing semi-licit access to the M3, on the northbound carriageway towards London. Apparently local residents have complained about increased traffic in the area,

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A SURFEIT OF MULLET: The Horrors of Mediæval-set "Romantic Fiction" http://bit.ly/arBvCF #weekendlinks # The Secrets of the Sparkle a.k.a. TWILIGHT: STONIFIED – a pop-culture analysis of Mormonism and Twilight http://bit.ly/w8l7 #weekendlinks # Main Stair Bookcase: http://flic.kr/p/8oaYbT Nearly full, but need to purge and give away the stuff I don't want any more… # how to

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My GPS has a builtin SIM/3g data contract, european cover £80/year. New kindle has free 3g. European data roaming tarrifs are a crock. # UK ID-card website cites "satisfied customers" – 8 out of 9 worked for the Govt http://bit.ly/9tB99B # bookshelf almost filled. need a beer. #

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#AnneRice bails on … christian churches? christianity? ummm… rather hard to explain: http://bit.ly/a20ZtL # Gym has this fun toy that sort of temporarily subtracts weight from you while you do chin-ups. Fun++ # Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed http://bit.ly/d4Kmwm #funny #true #java #geek # Apparently the

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Be vewy vewy quiet, today we'wr huwntnig PKI solutions! # http://bit.ly/boV5Ge "WikiLeaks Reportedly Outs 100s of Afghan Informants" – can CBS News tell us the URL & filename so we can check, plz? # @kcorrick even with your description I foresee Journalism having a disjoint cf: the Proprietary IT industry discovering "Open Source" in reply

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