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Latest epistle from Cynthia, touring South America whilst it’s winter in North America: Six days, 2,000 miles and three border crossings from La Paz; and thanks for the birthday wishes. Now in Argentina and only three hours behind GMT. A Typical Day (yesterday actually) Up at sparrow’s (still in Chile), cup of instant while checking

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Via [dev.null.org] [www.cambridge-news.co.uk] Cartoon hero takes a swipe at a world superpower FORGET Michael Moore – it seems George Bush has a new enemy, in the unlikely form of comic strip hero Asterix. After years of bashing the occupying Roman army, the indomitable Gauls have turned their attentions to the stars in their latest adventure,

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bash.org is just so much fun, and something about setting a bible-bot up against a censor-bot just amuses me. [bash.org] *** Now talking in #christian -Word_of_God- Welcome Abstruse to #christian I am a Bible Bot. For more info type: /msg Word_of_God !info <Abstruse> !kjv numbers 22:21 <Word_of_God> Numbers 22:21 — And Balaam rose up in

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Hi, If you’re reading this message then it probably means one of two things: You’re one of the people who are regularly exposed to my blog writing, in which case “hello, again!” You’re one of the people who has encountered the magical link which has brought you to this page. The reason for the latter

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[www.timesonline.co.uk] THE human face is shrinking. Research into people’s appearance over the past 10,000 years has found that our ancestors’ heads and faces were up to 30% larger than now. Changes in diet are thought to be the main cause. The switch to softer, farmed foods means that jawbones, teeth, skulls and muscles do not

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Another one from the BBC: [news.bbc.co.uk] Home alone More people now live alone than ever before, with more than a third of all households expected to be ‘solo’ by 2021. So what does it mean for the nation? Surely living on your own isn’t that big a deal? Not so, according to the Institute for

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I feel like this more and more – I ride trailbikes, and they are being shooed off the green lanes; I ride motorbikes on the road, and am fed up of being called “a victim waiting to happen”. I’ll soon be riding a recumbent tricycle, and people tut-tut at the apparent danger in which I

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Problem: # aspell ld.so.1: aspell: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/csw/bin/aspell: symbol _ZTVN7acommon6StringE: referenced symbol not found Killed Resolution: # env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/csw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH aspell Usage: aspell [options] <command> <command> is one of: -?|usage display a brief usage message help display a detailed help message -c|check <file> to check a file -a|pipe “ispell -a” compatibility mode [dump] config

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(to the tune of “‘ere-we-go”…) ZFS! ZFS! ZFS! ZFS! ZFS! ZF-Essssssssssss! ZFS! ZFS! ZFS! ZF-eh-S! Z! F! S! There. Happy now? So can I now just get-on with annoying Engineering by calling it Zed-FS in public?

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Geoff writes: First we have Alec reporting on the Top 20 geek novels from blogs.guardian.co.uk. I hope the fact that Alec hasn’t read Consider Phlebas doesn’t mean that he’s ignorant of Iain M. Banks’ work. …and I responded at that site, but perhaps it’s worth reposting here: Yes, I am utterly ignorant of Iain M

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From [blogs.guardian.co.uk] via [www.neilgaiman.com] The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 85% (102) Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 79% (92) Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 69% (77) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick 64% (67) Neuromancer — William Gibson 59% (66) Dune — Frank Herbert 53% (54) I, Robot

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Ever wondered what happened to The Doomsday Clock? Apparently we’re back at seven minutes to midnight, just is it was when originally set in 1947.

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