Dropsafe

[www.waitrose.com] is a lovely place to go, especially if you time it towards the end of the month when a lot of stock is on knockdown.

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a day of housecleaning and shoppery, followed by a hurricane. or at least, that’s what it sounds like at the moment. how’s you doing?

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…old friend Marcus Ranum posits that it may well have been an al-Quaeda whale, combining biological / bacterial terror weapons and suicide bombing in a single convenient package.

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buster just came to me to complain: the cat flap had frozen shut.

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There is a page at Kevin Smith’s website [www.viewaskew.com] which features a clip – formerly only available on DVD, and then only with basic audio – that puts a rather different spin on Azrael’s bar-room scene. “Evil is an Abstract”.

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Subject: blog clipping regarding “outsourcing” an interesting read at [www.ftrain.com] – not least as commentary upon and a pointer to another article… Initially, I found The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution to be a breath of fresh air. The article seeks to see the growing debate over outsourcing (call centers, programming services, etc.) not…

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Was the term “next generation” quite so prevalent in business circles *before* the first sequel series to Star Trek was broadcast?

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[www.onelook.com] – A Reverse Dictionary Subtly different enough from a Thesaurus for me not to get snippy about calling it one.

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I went to the Thames Vale Advanced Morotcyclist ball last night, and even though I was very smartly kitted out I still managed to be under-dressed – there was far too high a proportion of tuxedos and black tie for me to be considered formally attired, but I was good enough to pass muster, and…

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http://www.livingtv.co.uk/queereyeuk/questionnaire.html

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1) I still treat Macromedia Flash as rather dubious when it comes to matters of accessability and shop-frontage, but I enjoy its creative uses, and have found the attached animation rather amusing: [www.rockstargames.com] which is linked from [www.rockstargames.com] 2) The father of a dear friend has recently died; I have yet to respond to a…

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