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[www.norpol.com] Local Success Highlighted Nationally The success of Northamptonshire Safety Camera Project in reducing road casualties has been highlighted at a high-profile meeting at the Houses of Parliament today. The Chief Constable of North Wales Police, Richard Brunstrom announced that in just one year, Northamptonshire was already a third of the way to a DETR

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Whole new meaning to Variable-Rate Tariff [www.theregister.co.uk]

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Just a quick chance to blog some loose ends, before going to bed in order to get up really early to go and get my car serviced; hence why my laptop is also charging, in order to while-away the hours at the garage. So, to recap: Nasty, sneaky, pr0n-spewing spyware is the new evil-of-the-week [www.securityfocus.com]

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This is such a crossover article, I just jave to post it: [bike.owns.com] So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle? It runs UNIX! I removed the charcoal can, and cut out most of the plastic casing to install a Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard in the tail section. I cut off the

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Alas the illustration of the guy is of him on a ST4, not a Multistrada, but aside from that this guy’s endurance is impressive. [blogs.motorbiker.org] and the Yahoo link, below. A U.S. motorcyclist made the 5,632-mile trek from the northernmost road in Alaska to the southernmost tip of Florida in 100 hours and set a

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…else i will lose my preferred method of dealing with corporate middle management: [img70.photobucket.com]

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Grepping through my logfiles, I find a couple of people have been trying to work out how to get RSS feeds of some article topics — specifically the biker stuff. So, given that blosxom makes that easy, I have provided such. See the sidebar for the two prime examples; the general rule is that for

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I was browsing the web – for a variety of reasons fed Mouth of the Ganges into Google – and stumbled across [visibleearth.nasa.gov] Being a lifelong space-nut and astronomer – and therefore predisposed to pretty pictures of this sort – I can forsee quite a lot of browsing of that site.

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when peeling a banana, i usually end-up with three bits: the skin the fleshy, banana-ey bit the little stubby bit of banana flesh which pulls out / breaks off of one end of the banana; it’s harder than normal, and often has a small thread dangling from it; a sort of interior stalk, i suppose.

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jsolof writes at: [blogs.sun.com] My wife and I have breakfast almost every morning at Panera Bread. We order the same thing every time: chocolate chip muffie (muffin top) and a medium iced tea for her, a nine grain bagel with peanut butter and a medium coffee for me. I get the nine grain bagel, not

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[slate.msn.com] Conflict arises when people believe they are being treated unfairly. And treating people unfairly is the hallmark of the family courts, where judges actually announce that they are not concerned with fairness to parents.

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I find Lancashire Cheese to be vastly amusing. It comes in several varieties: Tasty Creamy Crumbly …but what I have not determined is whether you can also get permuted varieties. Tasty crumbly! Creamy tasty! Crumbly creamy! Tasty, crumbly and creamy! That would be a paragon of cheeses! Or: would it be just like Wensleydale?

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