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A few days ago I had cause to drive to Andover, and since Cynthia for months has been raving about some Channel4 documentary that was televising it, I was aware that Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck was involved in overhauling the Little Chef in Popham. When I arrived midweek it was quiet, I got

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TwitterTools goofed, so if you are in Sun UK and suddenly find you need a new phone, add a comment/thoughts to http://is.gd/15haq # What I am currently thinking re: getting a new phone: http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3174/comment-page-1#comment-21519 # trumpet ye not, sez FIFA: http://is.gd/15nZu # Aside from the fact that he’s “not Ahmadinejad”, is there any analysis of

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😀 # reason to get G1, not iPhone? http://www.splode.com/img/misc/emacs-on-android.jpg # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Maplin: pack of 4x 2000 mAh NiMH for £5, or pack of 12x same for £22 – Do the math. WTF? # I don’t want mandatory #DAB digital #radio; transistor FM radio runs 2 years on a pair of AA batts. For TV there’s HD carrot, but not radio. # Don’t kill off AM/FM radio?

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Back in 1986 I had a conversation with a fellow physics student, Johnnie “Veryodd” Griffith. Very Welsh, and very short sighted, he frequently wore contact lenses and explained to me: Contact lenses are great! Everything looks so much bigger! You look down and say: “My God, it is OK after all! Thank you Johnnie –

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#OSX update for #Java barfed on installation – never seen that happen before. Weird… # Saab sold to Koenigsegg. Wow, Saabs might actually get interesting again… RT @BreakingNews # Hoping to tie Burridge’s Roller-Backup solution http://is.gd/13klo to MovableType export fmt http://is.gd/13kk4 to enable Roller->WordPress # This would allow migration /off/ blogs.sun.com to WordPress, which some

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pandan cake, laksa, grass tea, bubble tea, armagnac, cigar, fresh coconut and coconut milk # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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BEST E.P.O. BUTTON EVAR: http://is.gd/11yoa # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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wonderful weekend reading for the literary: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage # The Penguins won? Yay 🙂 # Whatz fascinating about Facebooknames & @Twittername is it shows nobody really needs a #i-name; mebbe XRIs are bogus too? http://is.gd/10Cb2 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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comically bad veggie propaganda: http://is.gd/ZAHb “carnivores have short intestines so they can get rid of all that rotting flesh they eat” # 24″ cat has 60″ of small intestine: http://is.gd/ZANh -length is not an issue and contents of most stomachs are dead whether veggie OR carni # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Need a phone, but not iPhone due to O2 stupidity http://is.gd/X6aO – want 3G Bluetooth tether/data, 200 Texts, 200 mins, long battery. Help? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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