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Clipping from a mail from my sister: [Hospitalised for a chest infection, my 97-year-old Uncle] Arthur has declared that this is it. He’s not eating and wants to go. He’s intending to hang on until Duncan gets there which should be lunchtime tomorrow – Wednesday. He does have a phone by the bed but I

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The main point of my testimony today is to make clear the extraordinary urgency of addressing the unregulated sale of personal information in the United States and how the data broker industry is contributing to the growing risk of identity theft in the United States. Whatever your views may be on the best general approach

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Working backwards through the UK’s 4-day weekend, a recap of what happened: Easter Bank Holiday Monday: Visit Alan Cox & Telsa Gwynne Swapping mail with Telsa a couple of weeks ago, I promised to come and visit her and Alan, and the Bank Holiday Monday was the soonest opportunity I had free to make the

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From Dave Walker’s blog, elsewhere: The UK quality press had quite a session of beating HP up in the immediately post-Carly days. In particular, The Times had an article in their business section on February 12th which not only described HP as an “ink company” (have they been listening to Scott, I wonder?), but also

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Has anyone reading this used Bias Inc’s Soundsoap ? I have a lot of automatic-gain-control-related hiss on the video from my digital camera; I’d like to clean it up a little, and Soundsoap seems a good candidate. I am not looking for hi-fi quality, but want to remove the artefacting and annoyance from these digital

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When writing a blog, reading a web page, or otherwise skimming some content that you actually need to comprehend properly, highlight the text and pull down the: [ApplicationName] > Services > Speech > Start Speaking Text …function, and have your Mac read it to you. Maybe I am getting old, but it’s amazingly easier to

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This was linked from the Banksy articles below; I’ll need to dig into what happened to him, since the technique appeals… Gallery linked from page. Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls Morning Edition, July 15, 2004 A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes

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‘Hang-and-Run’ Artist Strikes NYC Museums All Things Considered, March 24, 2005 In a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York’s top museums. The artist, who goes by the name Banksy, has surreptitiously hung works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the

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Oh, and further Econowisdom: you should know that the magazine has a strict house style, and that one aspect of that is that each introduction of a brand or corporate name includes a brief description of the name’s goal or function, generally following a formula like: …Viacom, a big media group… …Lehman Brothers, a large

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Marvellous opening quote from The Economist this week: “WE TEND to meet any new situation in life by reorganising,” Petronius Arbiter, a 1st-century Roman satirist, is supposed to have remarked. “And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.” …for an opening set of

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Gardeners snap up black hyacinths Anyone else here remember Edge of Darkness?

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August 2005 Update: I’ve noticed that this page gets a lot of hits via Google; if you’re looking for marginally more information about Liz, please feel free to mail me at the address in the sidebar. So, someone you really like, keep in occasional touch with, you wonder why they’ve not mailed you in a

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