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So I was driving to work on the A30 today, doing a comfy 60mph on a stretch of dual-carriageway near my village, when I noticed a blockage in the road 1/2 mile ahead of me. A lorry had stopped and two or three cars behind it, hazard lights flashing. It was then I noticed the

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http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html some of this stuff is just plain scarey, especially the photographs of people.

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I find the notion that the US Government might be leaning upon net-based media outlets to remove inconvenient material – or worse that the fourth and fifth estates are exhibiting self-censorship, pandering / caving-in utterly to the supposed prejudices of their readership – to be both darkly amusing, and frightening. At least hardcopy needs to

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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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