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Today’s APOD:- The brightest comet in decades is unexpectedly now visible. The most optimistic predictions have Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) shortly becoming one of the brightest comets of the past century. For the next few days, its short tail and bright coma can be spotted with the unaided eye close to the Sun and near

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building a network of generators and masts is easier than laying mile after mile of tarmac in an area known for man eating predators “Mmm mmm! They’re delicious, these Bar-B-Q Flavoured Lions! Great reception round here, innit? Shoddy road, though.”

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Oh yeah, I remember – organised crime, terrorism, consumer profiling, money laundering, child pornography, etc, etc ; I guess they don’t have any of that in Kenya. Or maybe they just don’t have the FSA: BBC News Cash culture Soon you will even be able to pay for a trip by Matutu by mobile phone.

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I may actually subscribe to the “what’s new” service; the paranoia levels change fo infrequently as to be meaningless – we’re still at the “second-highest” level and have been so for months, at worst they’ll crank it up when some public event is about to happen, or retrospectively after a bomb goes off, so where’s

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…then you may or may not be able to reach me; my Dad has fallen at home and broken his hip joint. He’s comfortable as you can be in this condition, reportedly singing Flanders and Swann songs with my sister Mandy who ferried him into hospital. The oddity is that whist I was in hospital

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Sun Policy on Public Discourse http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/Policy or http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/blogs/policy.html (History of) Making Sun Policy http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/PolicyMaking Jonathan Schwartz: Sun adopts RSS http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1544882,00.asp Business Blogging: Innovate or Die http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/blogs/post20060530225339.comments

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Exactly how many articles should be held in the feed which a website syndicates to its readership via RSS, ATOM and the like? It’s a simple question, but actually rather harder to answer without succumbing to the risk of Worse Is Better thinking[1]. Below, I attempt to answer the above question, and I announce some

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In today’s post-Christmas resync with my friends and colleagues, my friend Efi in Lisbon forwarded me the following; it’s pretty powerful stuff – some may consider bits of it not “work safe”. And this by a 17 year old. <Efi> http://minanguelova.blogspot.com/ <Efi> she is 17 <Efi> a daughter of a very good friend of mine

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With respect to the NoKA Chocolate Article I pinged my friend Rob The Foodie with the URL of the former, and he responded in a manner too cute for words: Wow. Great article… and it appears you’ve drawn in the actual perps to your comments 🙂 The whole “snakeoil” / “security by obscurity” thing comes

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Links below; if the annotations are not done before you read this, forgive me. They’ll be sorted. Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day

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I have a “shite old bike” (TM) which is defined by it’s characteristic of being a bit grubby and naff, and therefore likely to still be at the railway station when I get home in the evening. Specifically it’s a 21-speed 1992 Raleigh Amazon bicycle with cheap-ass Shimano 100GS shifters/cables, and Shimano BL-200 centre-pull brakes.

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