Dropsafe

the aussies are right: the brits love to whinge, complain, carp and gripe. case in point: at tvam this morning, i was outside, and struck up a conversation with an xt660 owner who was appraising my zook. it was one of those british, embarrassed, stumbling conversations, me seeking traction in the conversation but getting nowhere……

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yay – my suzuki is working again. sort of. yesterday i returned cynthia’s bike trailer to her; i picked it up from simon’s place around 0930, suffering the gauntlet of lady sportscar drivers on driving at me, head-on, on the wrong side of the road; and a plague of white west-highland terriers throwing themselves at…

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…and it’s not even complete, missing out Knight Orc, Elvira, … [www.wurb.com]

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[www.moby.com] just fyi, if i release a cd and it has copy-protection on it, it’s not by my choice. copy-protection annoys the shit out of me, cos it prevents me from putting my own cd’s into i-tunes. just thought i’d let you know. moby

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there are many rules – stolen from many sources – by which i try to abide and which help existence more pleasant for me; amongst them are: avoid political parties where a picture of someone’s head appears on placards or banners avoid countries that refer to themselves as motherland, fatherland, and (increasingly) homeland never let…

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Hooray!

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i’ve spent the last few years typically subsisting on a couple of goodly scoops of muesli for breakfast, or toast. somehow i now find i feel less hungry after a couple of grilled sausages, a bit of bacon, and a simple, perfectly fried egg. protein vs: carbohydrate, i suppose?

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Now, for non-work-related stuff: Note for LJ readers: If you are one of my friends/relatives who is reading this anonymously – or you are a registered LJ user who is not on my friends list – you’ve just missed a small pile of neat stuff regarding my work. Nevermind – drop me a line and…

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Well, my Enigma card’s gone phut thereby depriving me of late-evening IRC with friends and colleagues, so I might as well turn my fingers to the small matter of a blog update. The last two weeks have gone from tedious to interesting by rapid turns – the big news is that I now report to…

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the expectations of windows users are so tragic: We’re seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months… [uk.glbx.net]

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