Dropsafe

Hopefully this will work OK. Blosxom uses file datestamps to reflect article posting time; as part of a migration and simplification of Dropsafe internals, I am fixing the file datestamps to precisely match the posting times that are embedded in the postings. This will lead to a little RSS confusion (for which I apologise) but

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due to a great renaming, dropsafe articles are currently on ice. back soon.

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Real, or photoshop? Click on the image for large version [www.thescorpion.co.uk]

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[coppersblog.blogspot.com] HUNTING TO BE BANNED – HOORAY! I have absolutely no qualms about arresting evil hunters-with-dogs, they should be locked up and given counselling like common criminals. […] Arresting foxhunters will be like shooting fish in a barrel (I won’t be surprised if the government try to ban that next). They will be cooperative and

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A friend posed the question “whats everyone else reading? I’ll be finished this soon and need another good read!”; by way of answer this is my multiplexed input stack – ie: books I am currently reading, almost simultaneously, in an coarsely interleaved manner: [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] [www.amazon.co.uk] …and those are just the ones

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terrifying realization: me years = 36 employed at sun years = 12 eek.

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That the defacement has occured is old news. That it appears (to me, via my browser, at the time of writing ie: 1839h today) still extant more than six-and-a-half-hours after hitting the front page of [www.theregister.co.uk] – to me, this does not bode well for the company. I personally feel that such operational slackness may

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Someone has put the advert up for viewing at [www.geocities.com]; alas the really poor dubbing of the original advert is much less evident after video compression. My readers from across the pond probably won’t see what is so funny about this, but the joke is that (from a UK television vantagepoint) it is so qualitatively

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After Cillit Bang, comes Oxiclean Kaboom! from (it seems) an entirely other manufacturer. Is this a new naming fad? Should we rename Solaris to be Sun Microsystems Zot! or similar?

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Amusing: [www.questia.com] Abstract This article assesses the link between country music and metropolitan suicide rates. Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas

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distance travelled: 107 miles start time: 0733 end time: 0910 elapsed time: 97 minutes average speed: 66.2 MPH Not bad.

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Regarding a previous posting, I have this from Tad (Hello Tad!) via Gene: Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:26:35 -0800 From: Tad Davis <tad@bbbbbbbb.com> To: Gene Saunders <gtsaunders@aaaaaaaa.com> Subject: Re: Arabic translation It’s likely a flirtatious note for the female customers who come along and glance at the scribblings: حابيبي habibi (my love) appears four

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