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In the mail today, I received a new Secdem Screen and a pair of Fastway F3 pegs for fitting to the 12GS at soonest opportunity! More details, and a review, to follow.

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This is superb – every American bird book I have, the ones of the coffee-table variety at least – cites this creature as a tragic example of extinction, along with the Passenger Pigeon and others: [news.bbc.co.uk] The spectacular ivory-billed woodpecker, which was declared extinct in 1920, has been found alive in North America, Science magazine

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They’re powering-off the lab at the weekend, but having achieved 365.2422+ days of uptime, I felt that that our firewall’s achievement was worth recording: fox $ uname -a SunOS fox 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine fox $ uptime   3:20pm up 365 day(s), 4 hr(s), 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.05 …I’ve seen higher,

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[emilioscotto.com] When Emilio Scotto (Argentina) was nine years old, he told his mother, tomorrow, I am going to travel around the world. She laughed, and replied, tomorrow, you are going to school, but from that day on, he set his mind on wandering the planet, he bought atlases and maps and was certain that one

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Here’s a silliness that I’ve meant to publish/collate for some time; a lot of webservers – post installation – never get their favicon.ico file updated; from my perspective this manifests itself as visiting a (usually commercial) URL and being surprised to see a small Sun Microsystems logo pop-up in the URL bar of my browser

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A Somerset chef who was bitten twice by a highly-venemous Brazilian spider was saved thanks to a snap he took of the beast on his mobile phone, the Times reports. Matthew Stevens, 23, disturbed the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera) which had stowed away in a crate of bananas and found its way to the

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There exists a town in Germany named Poing – and I know someone who lives there.

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Via Found comes [news.bbc.co.uk] Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease – they are exploding. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The toads’ entrails are propelled for up to a

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It only took them 10 minutes: [13:38] — alecm has changed the topic to: n1w s5t l2e n4d f1r c5l, p4e a3y w4n [13:40] <davew> Erm [13:41] <Avalon> *scratches head* [13:41] <davew> Working on the basis that this follows the form of “i18n” etc [13:42] <diamond> 1-5, 5 vowels? Nope, that doesn’t work [13:42] <davew>

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The school meals revolution set in motion by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has already run into difficulties as long-term contracts with private companies prevent schools getting rid of junk food. The Guardian has learned that new schools locked into 25-year contracts through private finance initiatives are finding that they cannot rid their menus of junk

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Regular readers will have worked-out by now that I am a sucker for art and fun in the hands of the people, and this is a new one on me. The basic technique of GPS Drawing is to use a mapping, track-recording GPS to plot out your movement, in a given place, over a given

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So I’ve been bricking it for the past few days, having volunteered to do a Sun-internal biker-themed collection on behalf of [www.naomihouse.org.uk] – my favourite human charity of the moment. I needn’t have worried about making a good showing. The collection is still ongoing, and there is the motorcycle ride-out still to do with however

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