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Yay! Now we can wait for the backlash against this non-event; the media will be looking for Friday night to report chaos, and if the blizzard moves in then that won’t happen, and we can just “get over it”: [news.bbc.co.uk] As late licensing is introduced, are fears about extended hours for pubs, clubs, bars and

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Pete Jenkins, at the office, on my Pashley Muni (MP4 video, 1.1Mb) Well I got my 26-inch Pashley Muni a couple of weeks ago, and it’s about time to review what i’ve learned. Unicycling is phenomenal fun – amongst my colleagues at work I believe that I’ve managed to make two instant converts and I

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Via [www.apollopony.net] – a short film (23Mb) illustrating how a trip to the shops might be perceived in a country with ubiquitous RFID. Thought-provoking, especially when you stop to consider why the information that flashes up on your screen is being put there. [www.cinematicfilm.com]

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I’ve given-up using Linux. It’s been about a year now, perhaps slightly longer, for reasons that take a long time to explain the rationale but which in summary are: There are too many Linux distributions, and with that diversity has come abject crapness the reason for which is not far removed from my observation that

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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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