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…and finally started using a spreadsheet. analysis: it’s faster to prototype in than my previous solution (“awk”) – but not siginificantly more powerful in the space which I use it.

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today has been an exercise in spam reduction – it’s been quiet because the entire united states is on vacation this week, so i decided to write a spam-pattern-matcher and wire it into procmail to do more intelligent filtering of my inbox. that occupied a merry two hours. now what? weekend before last was the

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[www.tes.co.uk]

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At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express

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Off to see The Polyphonic Spree and Mull Historical Society next week, and am getting Cropredy sorted out early, this year. Trying not to mess it up like last year…

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[www.sloth.org]

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well it’s been dull. at the drop of a hat, i wanted to travel to land’s end, the southwesterly corner of britain, and marvellously close to a selection of SIGINT locations to add to my collection. considered going down on saturday, but hadn’t planned this trip well enough to raise my confidence above threshold, so

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a rehash of the past two weeks… i got back from the usa in my traditional daze, and suffered getting-on for 10 days worth of return jet lag for a trivial investment of five days away. this is one reason why it is increasingly uneconomic for work to send me to the usa, because as

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[www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com] (ripped from [news.bbc.co.uk])

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[www.powerlabs.org]

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I flew out to the San Francisco Bay Area last sunday, just before the bank holiday, and only got back on saturday morning. It’s been a long week, very scheduled, generally enjoyable, but now I am back safe and suffering the effects of theraputic gardening. Recap of the week: Sunday: I flew out on this

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