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[news.bbc.co.uk] Rise in speed cameras could end An end to the rapid rise in the number of speed cameras could be signalled in changes announced by the government. Money from speeding fines may no longer be spent automatically on more cameras under plans due to be outlined by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling. Instead, councils and

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On a whim I punched the number 0000496000001 into Google, to search for other references to Essex MUD; I found one which I’d already seen at [ask.slashdot.org] but what Google came up with as a response: Look up UPC number 0 000496 00000 1 [www.upcdatabase.com] …surprised me. I didn’t know there was a database of

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yes, i’m messing around with the format again. yes, it’s a work in progress.

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Oh, bloody hell. Can’t people just grow up? [www.wikipediaclassaction.org]

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So this explains all those morning phonecalls where it rings, and then hangs-up immediately I pick-up the phone: [privatecitizen.com] Predictive Dialers are used by telemarketing firms to gain more ‘dialing efficiency’. About 75% of junk calls are made with a predictive dialer (PD). One thing a PD does, is monitor what happens when the phone

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I went to the Castaway Theatre Company’s production of Treasure Island this weekend, visiting Jim and Catrin and ran into old friends Alan (notorious author of AberMUD and the ZX-Spectrum game “Blizzard Pass“) and his wife Telsa; Alan had a new toy, a Nokia 770 which I can only describe as a mini-terminal-tablet-web-browser-PDA-thingy which has

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I was safe in Wales, but my friend Steve was 40 miles away in Oxford: It was 6:02am this morning. I was awoken by the rattling of my house’s roof tiles and the creaking of the roof timbers. My immediate reaction was “That was a shock wave!” I knew that it had to be quite

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Amusing: [www.signal15.com] So, I’m in Milwaukee at ye olde Holiday Inn Express. They have a wireless internet connection here and it’s been suckin’ all night, like I couldn’t even do anything on it. I suspected someone running a p2p program and taking up all of the bandwidth, so I fired up ntop to analyze the

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Driving back from Droitwich this evening, along the A417/A419, the road rose up from the fog-laden M5 and the fog broke just as I drove past the Air-Balloon Pub, near Birdlip; the sun was just setting and there’s a beautiful vantage point looking down over the county, and I surprised myself by having the wit

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I’m just back from Aberystwyth – more on that later – and whilst popped into a store I heard a very familiar track on the radio… Apparently Nizlopi’s JCB Song is tipped as a possible #1 Christmas single, and gets released in the shops tomorrow. If you’ve not seen the animation yet, here’s the direct

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The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The Music Publishers’ Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006. MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. He

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