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A fine Macsween’s Haggis for 50p at Waitrose led to a dinner of: Smoked Haddock Soup Green Pea and Ham Soup (with extra Black Forest smoked ham) Soft French Country Cheese Haggis (with lots of lovely pepper), Oatcakes, and a goodly dram of SMWS 54.14 single cask malt Absolutely fantastic combination of flavours, especially the

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Mmm. Hand-wringing About American Culture – Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? – New York Times But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in

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Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte. Well, I think it’s funny… (tags: funny humor islam politics) Mark Fiore’s Animated Cartoon Site The spies who love you, and if you don’t believe them, you’re supporting terrorism… (tags: flash humor politics Security) Bear Attack bear attack photos (tags: photos funny bear) Fare Class Codes : V-Flyer:

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I spent Monday and Tuesday spent in Fulda, Germany with Sun’s CMT sales team, at the Sun Partner University; wonderful to meet the team there, lotsa fun and chat. Video of my presentation should be forthcoming so long as I can fix the audio.

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Nokia Fix Originally uploaded by alecmuffett On a recent trip the power cable frayed internally and broke, so I broke it properly (very important) and then did a temporary splice so I could charge the phone… It got me home.

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Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move – New York Times Now, some chocolatiers are fighting back, with expensive, suave “dark milk” chocolates that reinvent milk chocolate by increasing its cacao content, reducing its sweetness and carefully refining it to give it the snap and velvet of dark. (tags: chocolate food) Skalnaté

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IMG_6035 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …okay, so it’s from one of Sun’s Blackbox machines, but try convincing me that the designer didn’t have that in mind…

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Sad. Back in 1983-ish, I had to save up my pocket money so that I could cycle to WH Smith, where over the course of a few months they located (on microfiche) and ordered my three volumes of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. The British astronomical scene knew almost nothing of Burnham, the canon on this side

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A little project that I am helping out with in my spare time, creating a new way for people to share information with companies, vendors and friends but shorn of all the federated-knowledge-based-identity-crypto-bullshit. Power to the Persons redux Technical outline: the feeds-based VRM concept is for you to be able to manage, manipulate and share

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Laureen tries to pay a bill – a lesson in customer care done wrong and right… ElementalMom » Paying a Late Bill Seven minutes after that, Mitch in Collections picks up the phone. Desperate, I blurt out “I really, really, just want to give someone my money. That’s all I want to do. I have

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Regards this and this, how long do you think it will be before the police start publicly calling for the freedom to impound cameras, license video recording rights, counter-sue for invasion of privacy, and similar ? If it’s not happened already, it will, soon.

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5 things you need to know about laptop searches at U.S. borders “We think people should know that they basically are leaving their right to privacy at the door when they cross the U.S. border. There is no assumption of privacy [at a port of entry].” Susan Gurley, executive director of the Association of Corporate

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