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This is fun! [screenclean.j1media.com] (Thanks to Martin.)

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Well it’s been a horrible week, mostly from the perspective of this blasted cold which is bouncing merrily around my head, throat and lungs, wreaking merry chaos and exhausting my supply of beertowels[1] at a terrifying rate. Between that and the phenomenal amount of work that is coming down the pipe, I decided to take

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No, no, nothing like the modern Government’s attitudes towwards the Internet, not at all… [news.bbc.co.uk] Britain’s 10 oldest state secrets have been opened to the public after a freedom of information request from the BBC. The files, closed by the Home Office for 100 years, have been disclosed in advance at the National Archives, following

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Is it me, or is there something both slightly scarey, and slightly sacreligious, about this: [image.guardian.co.uk] (work safe, 6Mb .MOV video)

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I remember this rock like an old friend: [news.bbc.co.uk] Elvis roadside rock revival bid There are calls for a well-known landmark, which had a link to the King of Rock and Roll, to be rebuilt. A roadside rock, daubed with the name Elvis, had for decades greeted drivers as they made their way home to

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Ha, a whole new category called “world”, since I couldn’t find anywhere else to put this. After a passing comment in Long Way Round, I did a little digging and found there are at least three places in the world, called (approximately) “Moron” — Mongolia, Argentina, and Minnesota. Not that I am complaining, having been

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Looks like Blosxom sites are being targeted by people with comment-posting ‘bots, in response to postings with specific subject line keywords. [www.crypticide.com] [www.crypticide.com] Time to poke around in the code a little…

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Incidentally: [news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair has defended proposals to allow UK terror suspects to be placed under house arrest by ministers without their cases going to court. The prime minister said the measures were needed to fight global terror. “…to fight global terror”? Could someone please remind me: how much internment was authorised in the 70’s

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Via DME: compare and contrast the following reports, which both apparently relate to the same event: [news.bbc.co.uk] Tsunami fund ‘hacking’ is probed An attempt to hack into the website of the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) that was set up after the Asian tsunami, is being investigated. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Computer Crime Unit

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Via [coppersblog.blogspot.com] we find a Magistraite’s (Amer: “JP’s”) Courtroom Blog: [thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com] Apocrypha (2) If you are facing a short prison sentence, try to get sent down for seven days on Maundy Thursday. You see, remission is one half, and three-and-a-half days is rounded down to three. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday when prisons do

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I encountered a new contraction last night: G11N, or “Globalisation’, in the IT sense. Darren Moffat provided the following explanation: L10N, I18N, G11N, A11Y are all separate things. L10N is the act of translation of messages from one language to another I18N is the act of making the code be able to use l10n G11N

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Got a car? Want to know if a recall has been made on it? See: [www.vosa.gov.uk]

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