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This past two weeks I am been mostly coughing; I have the dreaded lurgy with horrible side-effects[1]; that plus a selection of work presentations, significant amount of architecture work on a really really huge grid, and a trip to the London Motorcycle Show to get a new Helmet and a Paddock Stand and a Tank…

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Incidentally, the article that Senator Andrew Bartlett cites as being the reason Anna’s situation was discovered, makes harrowing reading: [www.theage.com.au] International efforts are being made to establish the identity of a young German woman held at Baxter detention centre in circumstances that have angered refugee advocates. Other Baxter detainees drew attention to the woman after…

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For those who never duck their heads outside of UK and/or US events, may I proffer this piece of reactionary stupidity from the Southern hemisphere: [www.csamuel.org] Cornelia Rau goes missing from Manly Hospital in Sydney, reportedly with schizophrenia. She makes her way from NSW to northern Queensland, where she is found by Aborigines. In NSW…

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Well I am not going to go into the reasons why there has been no major update of CrackLib for several years – not yet, anyway, that’s a longer story perhaps for another occasion – but in any case Nathan Neulinger has done the proper Open Source thing and forged ahead on his own, and…

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Half tent, half hammock, these look very cool. [www.hennessyhammock.com] Do any of you camping/hiking types use them? (Thanks to Bart for the link)

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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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