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Sun employee Graham Kemp is riding a R1200GS around the coast of Britain in 10 days in a high-speed adventure starting on July 25th. Proceeds are for Naomi House Children’s Hospice for which I have previously collected so do please visit the site where you can donate online, and UK tax-payers can click a box

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It’s quite interesting to watch the media machine at work; I first heard this chap referred to as a chemist, then a biochemist (less scarey) and now the story that the bombers used homebrew explosives has broken, he is being referred to as a chemistry expert which vague description will fit the media spin without

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Well that’s my weekend sorted-out, then: [mckoss.com]

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From an e-mail to an American colleague: >I pray you were no where near the bombings? I was in mid-France at the time; we didn’t have time to encounter local comment. I am told that the Italians cannot comprehend why the British were not beating their breasts, wailing in public and rending garments in the

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I wonder if “woo” means in Norwegian much what it does in English – Viking influences and all… [www.crypticide.com]

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Received this, this morning: From: (address.elided)@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:10:01 EDT Subject: Regarding Your Artwork I am requesting the use of your photo entitled 660h-bridge.jpg for album artwork on my band’s cd. If this is alright, I will give a copyright notice on the cd’s. Thank you so much for your time. Andy

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1 bike, 24 days, 6100 miles, 7 countries, and 1 speeding ticket. postings to follow over the next few days. for now: laundry and bed.

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Quoth Geoff Arnold: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? Um… “No.” Famously so. Alas. Next?

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I’ve now started adding Technorati/other tags to selected postings – the syntax I am using appears to be correct: …but to date I have no records of any referrals (“referrerals”? 😎) to the (admittedly small) number of target postings, but then it just struck me: Personally I never can be arsed to regularly go look

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My reading for the next few weeks: Just Law by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC – the strapline for which goes: Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Baroness Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. She is a Chair of the British Council, Chair of the

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