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<unhappy> [news.bbc.co.uk] Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. </unhappy>

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Oh! It is so refreshing to have a breath of fresh air: [www.datapower.com] As enterprises deploy sophisticated XML-enabled applications, they face several adoption hurdles: * Poor performing applications – Powerful applications rely on complex processing of large XML files. XML is a text-based encoding standard that slows ordinary processors to a crawl, rendering applications unusable.

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If you are involved in corporate politics – especially in the IT industry – I really recommend the following. Go read the following Q&A interview with SciFi author Neal Stephenson; specifically go read the pitch and response to question 2: 2) The lack of respect… – by MosesJones Science Fiction is normally relegated to the

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…in fact it’s been rot13(“fuvg”). I woke up with backache – a muscle beneath my left shoulderblade was tense and refusing to loosen; a Radox bath gave me 10 minutes relief but once I fed the cats it seized completely and left me flat on my back on the kitchen floor. I crawled, literally, back

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Pointed out to me by Rob Diamond – [www.blueman.com] well worth a look.

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A colleague [blogs.sun.com] pointed me to a photo of this bridge between Sweden and Denmark. It takes a moment to work out what’s going on, and then you wonder at at how clever and elegant it is and then – if you are the sort of person that I am – you note… how easy

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there are quite a few of these around, but this one is rather impressive: [www.levenez.com]

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FilmFour earlier this year screened (if I remember right) a fairly recent Japanese movie — a love story movie set in the postwar period with lots of atmospheric, almost film noir lighting, formal clothing, and repressed desire. For those of a British bent it was a sort of Brief Encounter-ish tale, but with an unexpected

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Well I know where I am going to be next monday night: [www.skyone.co.uk] Maybe it’ll even make bikers respectable…

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The question nobody is asking: what is the market value of software that costs nothing to download and use? [linux.slashdot.org] …eat your heart out, Epimenides.

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For those who like to analyse geek environments from the perspective of “how highly effective geeks do their work” – may I strongly recommend watching Danny O’Brien’s LifeHacks video, as-is available for download from the NotCon04 archive website. The analysis and “ticklist” of habits that seem common to various net.notables somehow seems to reflect my

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This is a clipping from a maillist I am on, pursuant to someone’s question about how to [I/other people] “blog”? I suspect that my response is mildly heretical as far as some people will be concerned, but nonetheless they may amuse some… My response to the question below probably also illuminates why I choose to

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