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well, this sucks: [www.csamuel.org] The ABC (the Australian one of course) is reporting that the US will permit the use of evidence gained by torture against individuals at Guantanamo Bay. [www.abc.net.au] Deputy associate Attorney-General, Brian Boyle, has told the District Court in Washington DC, that the Guantanamo review panels are allowing such evidence. This appears…

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An idea that came up in discussion with a friend / cynical-former-eng-lit-student last night: an update of The Railway Children with a darker twist that is more in keeping with Government’s desire to keep us all in fear modern sensibilities. Three children escape an abusive family life at a caravan site – their father widely…

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just testing that the new look-n-feel hasn’t broken anything.

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Extract from e-mail, follows. I am being polite, to see how far it gets me. I find the below-cited issue with stemming – viz: that multiple versions of the same URL, distinct by merely a trailing slash, are treated differently – I find that rather annoying. More updates will be posted as/when the situation warrants.…

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Well, friday evening just as i was wrapping up for work, after an interesting afternoon of meetings and internal blog-related discussion, i got back to my desk and opened up my iBook to be greeted by a zzzt! noise, and a pale glow emanating from a gap in the case, just visible in the rebate…

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ok, so i am sure that some of you will hate this, but i like it and i don’t care what you think: 😎 mousing around on friday night i found that the video for easyworld‘s final single release is available on the web at [www.video-c.co.uk] – it requires either popups or an explicit click…

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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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