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Google Justice Results
Well it appears my crack at Google Justice has been wildly successful. Searches for vallandry apartment, apartment les choucas and john and sonia potts all end up on my page about them trying to rip u…
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My Windows ate itself
Looks like my work Windows XP machine ate itself on Friday. Completely destroyed itself. Impressive considering I hadn't installed any new software (except last week's Windows updates?). Doesn't seem…
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Google justice
The people who own the Les Choucas apartment in Vallandry, John and Sonia Potts where we stayed for our recent ski trip have tried to fleece us out of some of the deposit. So I've written up a page ab…
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Snow Crash, again
I'm out of books (read all the ones I bought off Amazon with my xmas gift voucher) and am back to reading the excellent Snow Crash yet again. Loving it, but I'd like to discover something written this…
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Snow!
After a week of false starts, looks like we've finally got a decent dump of snow. You can compare this picture with this one from the Summer.
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Tax morons
As a socialist, I have no problem with taxation. In fact, I think it's an important thing. I don't mind paying what I'm due. What does piss me off, however, is the incompetence of the UK's Inland Reve…
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Marx and kimchee
Yesterday we went on a Marx walking tour of Soho with Scott and the Trots associated with his flatmate Hannah. An excellent tour which he'll be repeating on Mayday apparently. Lots of interesting hist…
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Blinding EDMX Mix
A couple of years ago I saw Ed DMX (of DMX Krew fame DJing at 93 Feet East. He played a blinding set of booty bass and electro. Absolutely awesome and had us sweating our arses off the whole time. Wel…
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Free DVD rental
I've been using the free trials of all these companies providing DVD rentals by post. Quite a nice idea and if we watched more films, it would be worthwhile. As it is, I'm storing up movies to watch a…
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Snowboardo!
Holly and I got back from snowboarding on Saturday night. Had a great time but snowboarding is a lot harder than skiing. Took us quite a while just to get the basics. With skiing you can be snowplowin…
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Cider and Dark Lager
Just bottled the cider I made on the cider making weekend last year. It's delicious, though perhaps a little too much tanin. I bottled 20 bottles straight, which will be flat scrumpy-style. The remain…
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Wonderful UI
Okay so Microsoft aren't exactly a difficult target when it comes to user interface design, but this one is just so bad I have to point it out. This is Outlook 2003. Now can you tell whether the items…
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Stamping Butterflies
I really like Jon Courtenay Grimwood 's books. He writes science fiction that tends to be based in North Africa, with all the flavour you would expect from that. This, his latest, is a bit more sedate…
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Invasion Day 2005
Last night we marked Australia Day, commemorating the big land-grab that was whitey's arrival in Australia, with a barbecue in Scott's backyard. Being in London, it is of course the coldest, bitterest…
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Let Habib tell his story
The Australia government is attempting to stop illegally imprisoned Australian Mamdouh Habib from selling his story to the press when he is returned from Guantanamo Bay. They're apparently trying to u…
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They're a weird mob
So the word pants in the UK means underwear yet they still have the term underpants. So what's the difference? Do they wear two layers?
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Jerry Springer: The Opera
Does it mean we're getting old to say we stayed in Saturday evening to watch opera on the telly? Of course it wasn't just any opera but Jerry Springer: The Opera. I never thought I'd see an opera with…
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Holly now has a blog
Holly wanted a blog, so now she has one. I couldn't find any decent blogware that was free and didn't require a database, but allowed Holly to post without HTML. So with a bit of Perl magic and HTML::…
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Musical Russian Roulette
Everyone's doing it, or so it seems, so here's the first ten tracks selected randomly from my entire music collection: Mr Bungle - None of Them Knew They Were Robots Frost - In Memoriam (The Silent Sp…
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Regurgitator - Mish Mash
Just got my copy of Regurgitator 's new album, Mish Mash. Have to say, it hasn't really grabbed me. The album was recorded over 21 days with the band locked inside a plastic box in Melbourne's Federat…