Dropsafe

So I rode the BMW up to Aberystwyth – Basingstoke to Aber in 4h10m, not bad at all – to see (as documented at [found.pale.org] ) the Castaway Theatre Company’s production of David Copperfield. The Arts Centre’s refurbishment has included a sizeable bookshop, most of which is given over to the topics of Law, and

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If anyone wants to know why I want to go biking in Norway, click this link -> [www.nordicbike.no] Image courtesy of http://www.nordicbike.no

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An observation: in the last 4 weeks I have been plagued by roadkill, and by animals trying to become roadkill beneath the wheels of my bike. Most of these have been pheasants. I have not been keeping an accurate tally, but I would say that a fair count would be in the order of between

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A friend queried: I’ve got a hash array and I want to determine the number of keys in the array. what’s the best way to do so? This is an interesting question. I can think of a one definite way to do it: @z = keys %foo ; $nkeys = $#z + 1 ; …but

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Rupert Wilson-Young, from the UK, riding from Alaska to Tierra de Fuego (ie: Peru) on a 49cc Yamaha Vino scooter: “Ruts, constant gravel, sand, rocks the size of small houses and a pass at 4853 m’s where I had to push a wee while. We made it though. The landscape was incredible also. Sometimes the

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OK, I am planning on a biggish European tour next year, and want to make sure I see some nifty new sights, and also explore some places that are off-of the typical tourist routes. In 2005, I want to go to North Cape, at/around midsummer. Traditionally, my first step is to flesh-out an approximate route,

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[news.bbc.co.uk] He immortalised dead, drug taking, mystic rocker Jim Morrison and disgraced ex-US President Richard “tricky Dickie” Nixon. Now it is rumoured that Hollywood director Oliver Stone wants to commit to film the story of one of his greatest political heroines – Baroness Margaret Thatcher. According to The Sun newspaper, Stone wants to turn Maggie’s

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[www.computerworld.com] Gartner: Half of U.S. IT operations jobs to vanish in 20 years Predicts improvements in data center technologies will lead to job cuts News Story by Patrick Thibodeau DECEMBER 01, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) – LAS VEGAS — In an eyebrow-raising forecast, Gartner Inc. researchers said they believe that as many as 50% of the IT

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Well, after the most trivial of bits of hacking to some metadata without requiring actual installation of blosxom modules, according to FeedValidator: …I am now generating valid RSS2.0, and so therefore I am now off to bed. I could hack more (probably unused) metadata into it, and it’ll probably all be broken by morning, but

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I don’t know why I bother trying to upgrade sometimes, it’s just hassle. I tried installing the Blosxom ATOM module which advertises itself: [www.blosxom.com] Configuration: Configurable: some optional configuration Additional Bits Required: Author: Rael Dornfest URL: [www.blosxom.com] Category: /plugins/syndication Date: 2003-12-10 …as requiring no significant configuration; this is confirmed by a skim of the code.

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Well I have temporarily shelved the whole pen matter, until Christmas is over, but in the interim have cleaned and resurrected my father’s 1965-vintage Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph 3065HO – not least in order to get me into the habit of carrying a potential ink-bomb around with me, and adjusting my behaviour accordingly. Last time I was

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I always find draft legislation amusing; in this case I am sure my friends in the Police would be reasonably happy with the proposal because their view of the law seems to be “that which you exercise in order to nick someone who needs nicking” – rather than the cause-and-effect, behaviour-changing “absolute” law in which

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