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Reuters reuted it like this: reuters ALMATY (Reuters) – The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday. The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge (8 pounds) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the

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UK academic security-folk are all of a flutter because the Home Office have published a Code of Practice for “takedown notices”. If like me you’ve only been paying scant attention: the Terrorism Act of 2006 enables a police constable to notify an organisation – viz: a University, a Company, or failing that the company’s ISP

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mysanantonio Seven of the 15 seats on the State Board of Education are up for election this fall. Two of those districts encompass a portion of Bexar County. […biting synopses of the failures of all candidates, elided; continues…] It is unfortunate for the school children in this state that these very important races did not

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timesnews.typepad.com Are you creative, adaptable, ambitious and resourceful? Do you have an iron grip on the Dewey Decimal System? Are you eligible for US government secret clearance? Then we might have found the job for you: running the “Detainee Library” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. continues… (Via) from (Via)

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The 10 megapixel, titanium-shelled IXUS 900 arrived; first impressions are: my god, that’s lightweight compared to the old 400. Some sort of actual review will come when I can provide worthwhile feedback, but in the meantime here’s a superfine full-size picture for all you cat fans out there… Buster, 5Mb JPEG

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I give it nine months before it fades into irrelevance; it’ll probably trickle along like OpenBSD, driven by fury and zealotry, but the first time they screw-up an article, their reason to be and media momentum will go foom. Not least they fail to realise that the “wayward” like it that way. Independent The launch

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foodandwine New Era of the Recipe Burglar Pete Wells explores the mysterious world of kitchen spies, copycat chefs and copyright lawyers who might, one day soon, change the way we eat. By Pete Wells I want to be there on New Year’s Eve when they seal the 2006 time capsule, because I’ ve found a

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This is like a return to the 1990s; I am using a modem to access my backup ISP connection because last night some muppet from BT (British Telecom) unplugged my DSL at the exchange, and plugged me in to someone / somewhere else. So I for various reasons I had cold biryani for breakfast, and

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Why didn’t anyone tell me that Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather is being made into a movie? David Jason as Albert should be rather good; although he can be menacing I’m not sure whether Joss Ackland is ebullient enough to be Ridcully, and there is scant information about Michelle Dockery (Susan) to be found on the web.

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Tuesday evening, and dinner with Adriana at L’Ortolan, a Michelin 1-star restaurant near Reading. We had booked to arrive at 7pm, and made a good fist of it even allowing for the dire Reading evening traffic. I had a particularly pleasant drive up there with Dave who out of tremendous kindness offered to drive me

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Buster – my cat – has had one of his two sets of results back from the vet; for those who haven’t followed the tale: back story Buster started looking a bit bloated last week, and on saturday Dave kindly stopped in and walked him down to the local vet; the diagnosis was “fluid in

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Oddly I was having a conversation about exactly this sort of thing with Bullen when we went to the London Cycle Show last weekend… He wants something in “gaming” spec, though. Gizmodo Sitting in front of a computer drinking cola and blogging all day doesn’t provide that nice of a figure-I should know. If you

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