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This is more like it – and it’s actually warmer than it has been for a couple of days; the snow has stabilised the termperature at 0c/32f so it probably will not last long, since this is much warmer than the -8c/18f which is the coldest I’ve recorded this week.

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Whilst I am on my enforced hiatus, I can read about friends on their bikes. Cynthia writes, and you can read between the lines of what travel by two wheels brings: I finally made my escape from Quemado despite a temperature of 20F, and made it to Arizona without falling off on any ice or

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I’ve not done a search yet, but given the number of people who have recently upgraded their WordPress installations and installed the “Snap” plugin, I can bet I am not the first but am certain I will not be the last person to say it is evil, disgusting and gross. Geoff Arnold tried it, and

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subtopia Seven of the largest tunnels discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years have yet to be filled. One of which is the longest yet found and extends nearly half a mile from San Diego to Tijuana. Theres another sophisticated passageway, he says, once known as the Taj Mahal of tunnels, which has been

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Well this is interesting: Sex offenders could be forced to register their e-mail addresses and chatroom names, the government says. Home Secretary John Reid said he was considering making paedophiles include details of their online identities on the Sex Offenders Register. Mechanisms would be set up to “flag up” approaches by them to sites popular

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The internet is filled with communities that all have the same looks to their forums, all powered by vBulletin; there are dozens all looking the same, after establishing which actually I feel makes you appreciate the differences in topic even moreso: motorbikes and riding, unicycles, kinky sex and in fact there are hundreds, perhaps thousands

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Are you not a Microsoft user, and yet you enjoy BBC multimedia content? If so, you will be interested in this: From: Ian Hi Alec, I hope you’re well. I thought you might be interested in the following BBC consultation. It is notable for question 5 which asks whether it’s ok for the BBC to

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I’ve started getting more penny-stock spam again; it went away for a couple of weeks, funny how you only notice it when it returns. I wonder what happened?

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Absolutely brilliant. (Via)

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svccfg -v -s sendmail setprop config/local_only=false svcadm refresh sendmail svcadm restart sendmail Obvious, innit? Otherwise sendmail port 25 only listens to 127.0.0.1, which is overkill if you ask me.

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click here for slideshow click here for index salacious debauchery within

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So Rob Diamond pings me on AIM and says that he’s about 90% sure that our friend and colleague Brad Blumenthal and his wife are the couple doing the intro segment to last night’s Ze Frank episode. And he was right. 10 year anniversary in Maui. Congrats both!

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