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washing machine update
After chatting with Alan & Telsa at the weekend, and with Simon-the-Monkey-Boy yesterday, I spent last night disassembling my 20+ year old washing machine in order to access and unblock the filter. The machine dates from before an era where ease of use was not terribly important, so to empty the filter normally would require…
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Confused Cops Swarm Woman After Birth
A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way – first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint. Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over…
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Eccleston quits Doctor Who role
[news.bbc.co.uk] Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. Solution: Make Billie Piper the next Doctor; a simple bodyswap plot will suffice, with a messed-up regeneration. No?
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EBay virgin seeks information
Like most any geek, I tend to accrue “stuff” – neat stuff, tech stuff, books, etc – which tend to linger around the house; indeed a lot of it has been here longer than many people might consider normal, so I have a pretty good idea of what constitutes “un-necessary toys” versus “interesting antique, to…
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Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone
Old to some, no doubt, but new to me: [www.cs.huji.ac.il] Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house. Those that never really worked well as flying saucers? Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something…
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Easter, the Flood, and Dinner
Working backwards through the UK’s 4-day weekend, a recap of what happened: Easter Sunday: Kitchen Flooding and a Convivial Dinner Like her pseudonymous namesake, my friend Bridget works in publishing, is beautiful, single, unnecessarily obsessed about her weight, has a disturbing enthusiasm for trashy pop culture, an insane mother, gets on extremely well with men…
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Is Size Important?
small: [www.crypticide.com] medium: [www.geoffarnold.com] large: [doc.weblogs.com] One of the design decisions I made when my first website went up, one goal that I have maintained ever since, is to shoot for a “clean” style for ease of loading, rendering, and reading. By and large dropsafe is a single pull of HTML and should render fairly…
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the muffett way of death…
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 Significance of the Choicepoint Matter
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…