Dropsafe

Somehow I cannot envision this ever working in the UK; there are too many petty-minded folk over here. [blogs.motorbiker.org] In one of the busiest shopping streets, boulevard Haussman (where the Galeria Lafayette is located), some 50 motorcycles arrived at 8 o’clock in the morning and took up all car parking spaces on the roads. Half

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so, shortly before going on vacation my ibook video went on the fritz again – sporadic flashyness, shimmering-waves of grey and occasionally absolute deadness – so i phoned applecare for the second time in two weeks, fought my way through the inane frontline of call management people, and had a box delivered for service. called

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Having seen Dan Lacher’s posting about coffee, just as an aside I have used the following technique [www.sweetmarias.com] to roast green coffee beans (using a £15 / $20 hot air popcorn popper) at home; the results are variable, but improve with practice and it is good fun so long as you do it outdoors. 😎

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memories: the hyper-enthusiastic b&b owner in canterbury. canterbury cathedral at night the last post at ypres lobsters and oysters in honfleur the bayeux tapestry the german gun battery apple sorbet the vietnamese history channel filmcrew omaha beach for hours and hours and hours the exceptionally cute redhead the laundry incident velcro, bungees and burping your

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ha bloody ha. [news.bbc.co.uk]

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well, i am back. 1700 miles through france and belgium on my dr-z400s with a homemade luggage rack. and i am intact. canterbury, ypres, honfleur, port-en-bessin-huppain, vierville-sur-mer, vierville-sur-mer, paris, paris, reims, reims, leuven, home. more later, when i have recovered and fixed the leak with my washing machine; images which – in reverse chronologcal order

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Am I the only person who receives weekly invitations to present at various IT-related conferences around the world, the suggestion being that I pay the sender lots of money for the privilege of doing so? Are these mundane spam that everyone else also gets, or am I trancendentally standing upon some higher plane of spam?

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…in a crumbly old books sort of way; a list of occupations as seen by insurance brokers, and how much risk is associated with each. article: [secretplans.org] image directory: [secretplans.org] I have a small interest in something similar [www.dtc.umn.edu] [home.ca.inter.net] [homepage.usask.ca] so I may be predisposed to liking this sort of thing.

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this is just too much weird fun; a bit like conway’s game of life meets a terry gilliam cartoon. http://www.lycettebros.com/automata/auto.htm

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I saw my friend Chris [www.csamuel.org] and his wife Donna [www.donnawilliams.net] weekend before last; stopping Chez-Muffett for breakfast off the flight from Chicago, I served them a breakfast of grilled lamb chump steaks, bacon, mushrooms, and well… an enormous mixed-grill basically. Chris looks fantastic, having dropped 2 Stone / 12Kg and dumped a whole pile

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So, up in Preston I ran into Paul (otherwise known as Gun-Mad Paul, since there were many Pauls in Aberystwyth and therefore modifying local custom people became widely known by nicknames: Gun-Mad Paul, Strange-Behaving Dave, Blue-Haired Elaine, and so forth) – who aside from having an encyclopaedic knowledge of firearms is also a toxicologist, and

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what worm threat? [news.bbc.co.uk]

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