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Hi All, It’s been a bank-holiday here in the UK, so today (tuesday) is the first that I have been in work this week. I decided that I needed some time off, so took an extra day last friday and made it a four-day weekend; that said, friday itself was mostly a matter of lazing

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and received about 1800 messages in that time. of these, approximately: 1130 are spam and viruses 600 are bounced mails, mailer-daemons and people falsely warning me that i sent them a virus (1130+600)/1800 == (0.961111111111111) …and so approximately 96% of my e-mail is rubbish.

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a young female blackbird is digging through the compost heap outside my bedroom window, and sneezing repeatedly as she does it. i’ve never seen a bird sneeze, before. maybe she has hayfever?

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i’ve just got home after the first rain for several weeks. the petrichor is amazing, like mushrooms and basements.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Bacon mistaken for human head Police have apologised to an artist after raiding his home when an artwork made out of bacon was mistaken for a human head. Richard Morrison, 37, of Wavertree, Liverpool, returned home to find his door had been kicked in by police with a search warrant. They had been acting

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Let’s see – wat has happened the past few weeks? Week-before-last was the Usenix Security Symposium as detailed elsewhere in a proper report thingy; stuff which didn’t make it into the report included the 2.5 hour chitchat with two guys from NIST, plus myself and Steve Bellovin, making the proposition that there is no practical

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Can someone please cite me the name of a credible, big-name French rock-and-roll band? Neither techno, rap, nor dance, in which genres the French have excellent representation, but just pure R&R and its progeny? I am investigating the proposition (suggested by someone else) that it is impossible to “rock and roll” in french, and that

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it required a wheelbarrow to retreive all the beer from my car. roy and i went to calais, france yesterday, as a day trip via the channel tunnel; up at 0400h, out the house at 0510h, arrive roys at 0545h, leave roys at 0555h, arrive folkestone 0755h, drive aboard 0815h and half an hour of

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culled from a mate’s blog at [found.pale.org] [eigenradio.media.mit.edu] All those stations, playing all that music, all the time! There’s at least 40 different songs being played every week on most radio stations! Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? That’s why we’ve set up banks of computers to do the

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[www.newtechusa.com] – from Rob

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…one episode of which for some reason i find so very redolent of LJ. http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/195.html beware content.

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