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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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Ok, so: I found a lot of hits for “Alec Muffett” (sic) in my referrer logs, and in investigating why anyone from morgannwg.ac.uk or CUNY would be interested in me, discovered this gem – translated by Google from the Brazilian Portugese: [www.revistadolinux.com.br] The envolvement with the Linux started in 90, when it studied in the

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so: this morning, grabbing stuff to make the 0700h train frmo my local station, something in my back goes pop when i am putting on my jacket prior to leaving the car. i subsequently spend the entire day in some degree of discomfort, having evidently pulled a muscle or somesuch. then, returning home at 2015h-ish,

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Having seen it for the first time today, hands-up anyone else who wondered whether The Incredibles was scripted by someone who was aiming to produce the Disney version of Watchmen It happens. After all, [www.imdb.com] was based on the moderately savage [www.imdb.com] (ignore the latter’s frothy IMDB review and try [www.amctv.com]) – so I suspect

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Lesson for all those who do long distance touring: “The great thing about hotel buffet breakfasts is that you can make yourself a packed lunch.” I must remember to pack some tupperware.

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All my bike articles are now being syndicated at [www.whybike.com] – cool!

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[www.securityfocus.com] “forkbomb it” I’ll admit that I thought his statement was pretty funny. How did this guy expect to bring down a Linux machine by fork bombing it as a non-root user? Not being as intimately familiar with the various Linux distributions as I am with the three BSDs, I figured that I’d have a

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Fainting Goat Videos. I kid you not. Via [improbable.typepad.com]

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Tim Bray posted It’s Not Dangerous (with a subsequent redux) while “Tom Reynolds” posted How To Blog And Not Lose Your Job; they are all interesting postings, and I shall follow-up with my views, later.

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