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Oh, my, dearie dearie me… watch the party political broadcast: http://www.campaignforlittlebritain.com/ Via Gene.

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Spoiler (though not for HP7)

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When exporting Blogroll as OPML, it saves “Category” information – data which it summarily ignores upon import…

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Three people in my life have to date quoted a nice story at me, with various endings – the ecomentalist: http://www.boingboing.net/2001/12/08/index.html After the giant oak beams in the New College’s great hall rotted out, the Dons of the college were at a loss to source replacement oak timbers of sufficient size. The college forrester came

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The Independent front page. Flickr. Pictures from the BBC – New Road Cricket Ground being flooded out is not unusual, local legend has it of a match where one wicket-keeper was bitten by a Pike – but Holt Heath is high ground, unfortunately on clay, so that’s probably why it’s flooded. I know people who

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On the road from Canberra’s city centre to the office there’s a fair bit of construction going on — new appartment blocks being constructed or existing ones being improved — and at one of the sites there’s a big sign next to the pavement that reads “Pedestrians watch out for trucks”. Well, no. If a

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New photosets posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/.

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…and it’s a good tale, better than the last couple of books where Harry has been just plain whiney. I’m somewhere between wistful and glad that it’s over, or rather that it has been brought to a proper conclusion – and, perhaps unsurprisingly for a book which deals so much with themes of life and

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It’s bucketing down outside – the drains in Fleet have lifted their covers, and the roads are up to 5″ deep at the verges. My back patio was 2″ deep when I left, so it’s not impossible I will return to a damp kitchen; at least this would be a novelty compared to some of

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In Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion he mentions – in passing – something about “North Hemisphere-centrism”. So it was fitting to have read that book the flight to Sydney; and it just made me realise: we really need for someone to make one of these “south-side up” maps and caption it (for those familiar with

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…is the old die-hard bloggers finally realising that their blogs need an overhaul of look and feel, possibly not to mention method and purpose. Really. Watch this space, or go check out Twitter feeds for Hugh and Winer, although of course as usual they are slightly behind the curve for reasons that will become apparent

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This works: mlindholm: My Stowaway Sierra keyboard arrived today, and in my poking around (and reading other suggestions) I think I found a hack that fixes the “Fn” menu issue. Edit the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 , and comment out the line: <MENU> = 117; so it reads //<MENU> = 117;

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