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Not that this is anything to do with 9/11 or anything, but I’m increasingly astonished at how the British public’s approach to dealing with mourning has changed over the past three decades: From my youth I’ve no memory of roadside floral displays lasting more than a couple of weeks where someone’s been knocked over on

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I had a stupendous piece of spam this morning, guaranteed to wind-up several of my colleagues in SunLabs:: SEMANTIC WEB VERSION II: Google is coming up with Semantic web. Are you ranking well with this latest algorithm of search engines and will you continue to rank well? Is you website LSI compliant? Search Engines like

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DaveW came to visit today, and helped with the gardening; the side footpath was heavily overgrown so we attacked it with loppers and secateurs, and he barrowed-away the debris. I then fitted him up with the Stihl leaf-blower, and the path is now clear, too. On the back of all this, I made some progress

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The secret cost of Oyster testing: Mouse mortality… Independent For the third time in a year, Arcachon’s world-renowned oyster farms have been shut down – following the deaths of two people who had consumed the local produce. Furious at the threat to their livelihood, the farmers insist a good bivalve never hurt anyone. The Bay

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Creative Paper Wales As every craftsperson will tell you, it all begins by using only the very finest materials. We take great care to collect super-fresh sheep poo from the beautiful (and rainy) mountains of rural Wales and take it back to the mill, situated in southern Snowdonia. We don’t just make Sheep Poo Paper(tm)

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BBC It has taken 10 years and about 60 volunteers, among them retired computer experts and telecommunications engineers, to rebuild piece-by-piece a replica of the Turing Bombe – the vital machine which cracked the Nazis’ Enigma Code. Against impossible odds the electro-mechanical device enabled cryptographers to decode more than 3,000 German messages in a day,

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BBC The ruins of an extensive mountain village have been found on the slopes of the Sugar Loaf, near Abergavenny. Scouts working with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers have spent a week hacking back brambles to reveal the 25-house village. It is thought the Y Graig settlement in Glangrwyne, Powys, was abandoned in the

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Guardian The investigation into the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch has been complicated by the discovery of an obsolete computer in the house where she was held, Austrian police said today. Officers have been surprised to find that the kidnapper, Wolfgang Priklopil, a communications technician, appeared to have relied exclusively on a Commodore 64. The beige-coloured

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Gives you an appetite for destruction. Me want. But they trademarked FUBAR! Stanley FatMax(R) Xtreme(TM) Fubar(TM) Functional Utility Bar 4-in-1 tool for prying, splitting, board bending and striking jobs One piece forged steel bar for increased durability Two-tiered jaws for grabbing common dimensional lumber & decking Beveled nail slot for pulling & prying nails Textured

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quote: “we’re told the bike looks like a total write-off, but we can’t say for certain until we get the official engineers’ report.” hohum.

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Well GlennW just dropped me off from our having a nice Fish’n’Chips (Eco-nuts: I had Huss) after my key X-Ray and knee consultation with Dr Rossiter this evening. Firstly regarding the chest: My rib cage is improved; I managed to lie on my side for whilst some lumbar and rib x-rays were taken, and was

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Dear Lazyweb… Hi Alec, this is a cheeky tech-support question about Gnome 2 running under Solaris 9. I’ve been searching all over Sun.com and gnome.org, as well as the local filesystems to resolve this one, all without success. Google hasn’t yet been prompted to return anything usable either, despite a number of attempts. The venerable

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