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new toy!
sennheiser pxc250 earphones. sound very decent (still not as good as my hd600’s) and noise-cancelling which makes my PC sound almost as quiet as my iMac, and my iMac inaudible. http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/products.jsp?id=04924 oh, and the guy at the shop dissed how meridian kit was always on backorder… 😎
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plaxo nuisance
Every so often I get e-mail from people – often people of whom I have no memory every having met – who send me an address-change form via plaxo.com: Hi Alec, I’m updating my address book. Please take a moment to update your latest contact information. Your information is stored in my personal address book…
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rollright stones vr
so i stopped by the rollright stones for winter solstice a few days ago, en-route to my sister’s place for dinner. i woke-up who was doing security, and chatted with some of the locals. pictures at http://crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/rollright-21dec03/ using the tools which came with my camera, i have woven the same into a QuickTime VR movie…
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it’s funny when…
…you see something quoted in somebody’s blog, and you remember being there at the boozy and very amusing evening when the idea was conceived, in this case by Marcus Ranum: [www.bpfh.net]
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A World Drinking Record
[story.news.yahoo.com] RIGA, Latvia (Reuters) – Latvian police said a drunk picked up with around twice the blood-alcohol level considered deadly had probably set a world record but would wake with a hangover to match. The unidentified middle-aged man was unconscious but stable after a blood test showed 7.22 parts per million of alcohol, police spokeswoman…
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something i always wanted to do
[www.clickableculture.com] Entry by brian f. [profile] on December 22, 2003 @ 11:44 pm [view this day’s entries] So I resampled the Chimpunks’ Christmas Song (so the voices are normal speed) and posted it here. It’s a lot of fun and apparently Theodore is voiced by Duff Man. cheers, brian f.
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What’s Special About This Number?
lovely website [www.stetson.edu] 0 is the additive identity. 1 is the multiplicative identity. 2 is the only even prime. 3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in. 4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps. 5 is the number of Platonic solids. 6 is the smallest perfect number.…
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i have used this so often in the past month, i have to plug it.
[en.wikipedia.org] — Wikipedia. Somewhere between Britannica, Encarta and the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.