Dropsafe

I once had to tell a disbelieving American that the UK National Power Grid is forced to schedule power supplies around/into TV commercial breaks because of the number of electrical kettles which are switched on to make tea; I can’t remember who that was, but here’s proof… [news.bbc.co.uk]

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[www.eweek.com] December 5, 2002 Sun Grills Microsoft on Interoperability By Darryl K. Taft … In an exchange during the testimony of James Allchin, a Microsoft senior executive, in the landmark government antitrust case against Microsoft, this issue first arose. In that proceeding ‘foo’ was described as the codename at Microsoft for the WS-I, which documents

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I’m back from Amsterdam and a visit to a Customer. I’m glad to be back – I still feel slightly knackered by the whole experience – but it was both fun and educational. The Dutch are a refreshingly, if slightly scarily, blunt nation. After a 90minute flight delay at Heathrow, myself, Casper Joep and Dennis

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[home.earthlink.net] …which is prettymuch what my next one will look like.

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What is wrong with me, that I do not own an MP3 player, let alone want an Apple iPod? Is this wrong? alec, trying desparately to think-up something angsty to keep up with my friends and colleagues.

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glug – ah! a very welcome pint of black sheep brewery’s golden sheep pale ale accompanies me as i write this entry. it’s been a long week, and today has been the culmination of the week. my dad turned up on monday for an extended visit over christmas. i picked him up from a midway

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you are using gnome the application which switches between virtual desktops, dies you quit and restart, but don’t get it back, because some bonehead decided that saving the state of your desktop on exit and resetting it to precisely that on next login, is a really cool idea.

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this is all so very carole smiley. for the first time in – what, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 – nearly four years, one of my rooms looks approximately the way that I envisioned it looking when I bought the house. we’re not quite there yet, but the curtains (with extra blackout liners) are up, the

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doing what’s right is sometimes the hardest thing you ever have to do.

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[www.theregister.co.uk] But the RIAA seems to be having a few problems with the facts itself. Yesterday it issued a press release announcing a piracy bust in New York which unearthed 421 CD-R burners. Only there weren’t 421 burners, but “the equivalent of 421 burners.” In fact, there were just 156. How did the RIAA account

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i am so pooped. faced with the choice of continuing re-decoration of the bedroom, and going to aberystwyth to see a play, i elected to do both, and managed to pull it off successfully. i was materially helped by the BBC having deferred the timeslot for BtVS “Once More With Feeling” by one week inorder

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The room looks lovely. The first colour coat is on, and the only bit remaining to do is the 2″ band where the walls meet the ceiling, which is a hand-brush job. then a second coat, and the room will be finished for painting. I wasn’t wholly convinced until I covered the whole room and

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