Dropsafe

The Muffett family’s Groundnut Chop has been a tradition for as long as I can remember, and the tradition goes back way before I was born. For several years I have intended to pull the recipe details together and post them – yet have never gotten around to it; however I am cooking one of

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One reason I am glad I did not get a #iPhone: http://is.gd/1SJNG # ZX Spectrum vs: BBC Micro to become BBC Comedy Drama – and where is Alan Sugar's AMSTRAD in all this? http://is.gd/1U3Vx #

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print ".".join(x for x in itertools.chain(["a%s"%i for i in [1,2,3]],["b%s"%i for i in [4,5,6]],["c%s"%i for i in [7,8,9]])) # time for beer #

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i cannot explain this youtube video: http://bit.ly/bqy9M #

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http://twitpic.com/bfwkd – For my american colleagues # "…also, box of puppies." http://bit.ly/15ub6T (via @adriana872) #

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Official Govt Advice: Use a fully charged cordless phone to call when signing-on for jobseekers allowance == 40 minute call, 44 page form # jobseekers allowance is for 6 months at £64.30 per week, paid fortnightly in arrears # jobcentres nowadays are "better than Butlin's" # 1505h just passed the Google Street View car on

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must be display season – a vulcan bomber (w/ hawk observer) just flew over the house, first one i have seen in ~30 years. http://is.gd/1HIRe # see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XH558 # @darrenmoffat *twice* – two overflights, and i can hear a rumble over (maybe) Odiham area, where I think it is practicing reheat in reply to

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…and nobody will ever need more than 640Kb of memory: http://is.gd/1Gu7w #

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13:37 – it's that time of day # dropsafe is going down in a few minutes for an upgrade; don't panic. # Hmm "A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work until this is fixed" # @c0t0d0s0 much sympathy; have been there too. Took 5

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Cornish County-Mounties Cock-up Cook-out http://is.gd/1F2bS – am more worried they are scanning FB for potential miscreants / leads … # http://twitpic.com/azjma – Fitting the hard disk into the cement. # quote: “the music business should be about making music, not shipping plastic disks”; thus publishing shouldn’t be about shipping books? 🙂 # http://twitpic.com/azm46 – 35Gb

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@darrenmoffat real; i would need a wii for the latter. in reply to darrenmoffat # I’ve been wondering about the footprints for maybe 35 years: http://bit.ly/CmVPN #

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