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I can’t attest for the truth of this one, but it’s amusing: [cuagain.manilasites.com] Inches before impact, the squirrel flipped to his feet. He was standing on his hind legs and facing the oncoming Valkyrie with steadfast resolve in his little beady eyes. His mouth opened, and at the last possible second, he screamed and leapt!

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People ask me: “Why the hell would anyone in their right mind ride a 400cc trailbike from Hampshire to Trento in Italy?” Well, in truth, they don’t actually ask me that. If they’re bikers, that is. People who aren’t bikers say things like “Oh really? That sounds wonderful!” and tell me about how they wish

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yaamha was not the first to have a 2wd by some long way, but it is only now that i have stumbled across the website about a longterm manufacturer of such: [www.rokonworld.com]

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New MacOS X posters: [forums.macrumors.com]

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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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