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The Essential Wine-Glass for the Cubicle Generation
Sommelier by Maxim Velcovsky I think these are really cool – the plastic drinking cup is an unremarked design icon and there are thousands of them around water coolers in every office in every company I’ve ever visited. This is a rational progression of form, and it’s marvellous. I totally regret that I’m a klutz
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Memento Mori
How I love to watch the morn with golden sun that shines, up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine! The wind doth taste of bittersweet, Like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it’s blown through others’ feet, like those of… …Caspar Weinberger. Explanation. It’s the only thing I knew about Weinberger. Perhaps
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Hut 33 – A Bletchley Park Sitcom, BBC Radio 4
Sounds vaguely like “The IT Crowd for the Vera Lynn Era” :- [www.bbc.co.uk] Hut 33 It’s 1941 Britain stands alone. Bletchey Park is crucial in the fight against the German war machine. Labouring in Hut 33, three code-breakers Archie, Toby and Charles struggle with complex ciphers, irritate one another and fail to impress women. Their
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Eclipse as seen from Space
One for Steve Elliott: [www.nasa.gov] – pretty. Link c/o Rob Diamond.
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The Spider of Doom
[www.thedailywtf.com] Josh Breckman worked for a company that landed a contract to develop a content management system for a fairly large government website. Much of the project involved developing a content management system so that employees would be able to build and maintain the ever-changing content for their site. Because they already had an existing
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How To Disable Spotlight on MacOS X
This is the method I used: [aplawrence.com]
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Martin Conquest: Motorbike/trike for the disabled
[www.martinconquest.com] “Our recent launch of The Conquest is the culmination of a three-year dream to provide mobility to disabled former motorcyclists and disabled aspiring motorcyclists. “The Conquest is based on the BMW R-Series motorcycle and is the first mass-produced high performance tricycle available in the UK that can be driven from a wheelchair. The Conquest’s
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US group wants China ‘spy’ probe – Lenovo laptops
Cybercommies! In our Laptops! [news.bbc.co.uk] A US agency is calling for an official probe into Chinese computer firm Lenovo’s contract to supply 15,000 computers to the US State Department. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) said it feared the PCs could be fitted with bugging devices to spy on the US government. Lenovo,
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When Blair will hand over the Premiership to Brown
A little theory of mine: Margaret Thatcher won the election of 4th May 1979 (JD 2443998) Margaret Thatcher resigned on 22nd November 1990 (JD 2448218) Margaret Thatcher was in power for 4220 days. Tony Blair won the election of 2nd May 1997 (JD 2450571) Hypothesis: Tony Blair wants to beat Thatcher’s record. ergo: Tony Blair
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Website Changes In Progress
If some links are broken over the next few days, please don’t be surprised; I am shuffling some files around.
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One for Geoff
[news.bbc.co.uk] An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.
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Microsoft warns on browser bugs
The year: 2006 “To avoid falling victim, Microsoft urged users to avoid websites they did not trust and to refrain from opening attachments on e-mail messages from unknown senders.” <bwahahahahahahaha> <giggle> <snurf> <hahahaha> “in this day and age, what on earth are they thinking? why do people put up with this sort of nonsense? when