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Jim found a gem: “Give us a pencil. And a couple of those tees. And a Topic. No, not a Milky Way you arse, a Topic! All fecund in its nuttiness.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=p856CfM64w8 I’ve never got on with Joyce. Can’t be arsed to maintain a grip amongst the verbiage. I suspect Tim Caynes will love it,

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Following the Ian Murdock thread on Slashdot a /. commenter > Why would anyone even bother installing “true” Debian at this point? the debian that can be installed in 40 minutes is not the true debian. i used to have a debian Tshirt that said “it’s what your mom would use if it was 20

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A live toad every morning One effect of global warming is that the seasons are beginning earlier each year. As one sign of this, I saw a display of hot cross buns for sale in Coles on Wednesday, January 3rd – at least two weeks earlier than last year. (Via)

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el reg SXSW Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017. “There are 55 million blogs and some of them have got to be good,” Sterling said, during a speech here at the SXSW conference in reference

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Newsflash attached. I’ll let you know my thoughts on this, later. Phipps Ahoy! I’m delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who’s starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun’s Solaris and

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…time for The Broadmoor Siren! My nearest siren is about 8 miles away, and on a dampish day you can still hear the weird symphony of them all together. For those of us inclined to think in terms of security theatre, I suspect it qualifies: The siren was installed following a public outcry at the

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If you are in the London catchment area and are an Open Source geek, keep an eye on The Google London Open Source Jam page – I would link to an umbrella page on the Wiki, but onesuch does not seem to exist (?) although there are links for previous events they’ve done. This month

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I had dinner with Geoff tonight, and he mentioned this, of which I had not heard before: australianit APPLE may sell notebook computers without hard disks later this year, an analyst said. The devices would use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard-disk drives. The

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One year on, Ze Frank’s over. On the bright side, it’s time to find something new. Or do something new. 🙂

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A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to be invited to the Blindside “barn raising” by William Heath, the director. To quote the “about page”:- What’s going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? There are experts, but there’s no one expert. We’re all in this together, so let’s share our evidence and insights

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These are becoming more and more relevant to me… ravinglunacy The Top Reasons you need a PR Firm […] You treat your customers like shit. PR will be happy to help you. They can craft the “your customers are morons” message much better than you can. They can help select the best Consumer Friendly shade

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