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The War On Terror – As Viewed From Bourne Shell
$ cd /middle_east$ lsAfghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAEAlgeria Israel Morrocco Sudan YemenBahrain Jordan Oman SyriaEgypt Kuwait Palestine TunisiaIran Lebanon Qatar Turkey$ cd Afghanistan$ ls bin Taliban $ rm Talibanrm: Taliban is a directory$ cd Taliban$ lssoldiers$ rm soldiers$ cd ..$ rmdir Talibanrmdir: directory “Taliban”: Directory not empty$ cd Taliban$ ls -a. .. .insurgents$ chown -R…
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Appropriate postscript to the Menezes affair?
There’s a lot of pro-shooting, anti-shooting, it could happen again hot air going on, but I find this most apt as a summary of my views: [news.bbc.co.uk] Surely the most frightening thing is how quickly we have come to share the terrorists’ evident belief that innocent people must die. Robin Saltonstall, Beverley, UK
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Finnish Emergency Runway?
So I was riding through Finland a few weeks ago, heading north for Nordkapp as I shall recount later; specifically I was pelting through the swamplands of northern Finland, a lovely area which I hope soon to revisit, and specifically I was on the E75 heading northwards out of Rovaniemi. It is a lovely, fast,…
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The European Beer Migration
Ok, so, this is how the German explained beer migration to me: The Norwegians go over the border to Sweden to get beer, because it’s cheaper…. The Swedes make daytrips to Denmark to stock-up likewise…. The Danes pop south into Germany for the same, and the dirty little secret in Germany is that… a lot…
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New laws target terror training
Potential for IT Security Professionals to become illegal / subject to Govt registration, in UK. Pardon the banner headline, but I just wanted to hammer point home before explaining it, because this is one of those times when I will be actively compaigning against a bill, and hope that by catching public perception whilst the…
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Graham Kemp’s Charity Ride for Naomi House
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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Tracking the London Bombing stories
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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Extended Motorbike Vacation Equipment Checklist
I’ve read any number of these in the past six months; here’s mine. Some ancilliary notes: canvas deck shoes: cheap (10 quid?), lightweight, pack flat and vaguely washable. perfect travel shoe for bikers, but try not to keep dry before packing. hat with brim: essential for non-biking times in sunny areas. waterproof luggage: assume it…
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London Bombings: more like Waco than 9/11?
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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“KIM HARALD WOO SLYDAHL”
I wonder if “woo” means in Norwegian much what it does in English – Viking influences and all… [www.crypticide.com]