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[www.no-pain-no-gain.com] …and the rest of the website.

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Went with friends to the local town tonight to go see Matrix Revolutions; weather is definitely getting more wintery over here, closing in, but after parking I met up with Grim, Holly, Nobby, Steve, and eventually Jon and Violette at the Yellow River Cafe, a slightly upmarket a-la carte chinese restaurant on the Reading riverfront.

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[16:45] <james> oh this will amuse you [16:45] <james> first there is “am i hot or not” [16:45] <james> then “rate my rack” [16:45] <james> now [16:45] <james> [www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com]

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Taking advantage of late-night phone cheapness, i am downloading the supposed 4255 emails (probably closer to 8000) that have accrued on my old Dircon account since going ADSL. The return to modem usage is almost nostalgic, especially since the built-in one in the iBook works nicely, and with “smap” compiled as a SMTP receiver there

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It just struck me that this new Prince Charles rumour nonsense is a wonderful opportunity to see whether the net provides enough search engine capacity to get anything you want irrespective of the UK legal system. The sum total of what you get inside the UK is something like: Whatever this man Fawcett says, Charles

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…i didn’t find anything remotely interesting enough to incent me to buy. really. honestly. i gather that some of my friends are rather obsessive about buying other people’s stuff, and no doubt it fills a useful sales niche rather more effectively than old newspaper “classified ads” – and if you have some ideas of what

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Frosty morning today, after having picked up the new bike last night in fact it’s darned chilly back here in Blighty. The new bike can be seen at [crypticide.org] compared contrasted and secured to my old one. I am keeping both for a while, not least to maintain my insurance no-claims bonus, but also the

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Ok, so, I am on vacation. At 0930 I get a call redirected to me from our postroom, saying that there’s a parcel which has been mailed to me, newly arrived. I ask them to deliver it to my admin Sue who makes the sun rise every morning and prevents the galaxy from falling apart.

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anyone remember the adverts on tv, where they used to (literally) drop a volkswagen into shot? which model was it? golf? polo? beetle? all of the above?

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i read recently, some guy’s claim that after much experience, he could identify the encoder and bitrate used to rip a piece of music. i am beginning to see what he meant – at least the bitrates.

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high fully comprehensive: £622 high thirdparty, fire and theft: £346 low fully comprehensive: £ 338 low thirdparty, fire and theft: £181 the winner? carole nash insurance TPFT for 181 quid, including green card (ie: european cover) breakdown and legal, with an excess of 250. the brokers are incredibly leery of the terms boat, rupp, green

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Well, it’s still sunday, just. I’ve just watched David Blaine be released from his perspex cocoon on TV, and have basically had today as a lazing-day… but more of that anon. I am holidaying at home and have a reasonably packed schedule of gardening works to do, started last friday by a buying spree; I

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