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Chirac est un ver
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,9353,-10104389507,00.html) Of course the French are finding this all a bit odd. And of course they see right through it to the three things that are real…
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Heading off to Devon and Cornwall
Tomorrow night we're heading South-West to a manor house from the Landmark Trust with about 16 others. Should be rather nice! After that we're heading further down into the SW corner of England to see…
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Copy protection on new Asian Dub Foundation album
A colleague at work brought in the new Asian Dub Foundation album on CD today for me to have a listen. This album was one of those albums on the "buy without even listening first" list, but I hadn't g…
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So that's what a million people looks like
Wow the anti-war marches were absolutely amazing. Melbourne had 250,000 people, Sydney had 200,000 or more, even Terrigal had a small turnout. London was amazing with at least a million. It's hard to…
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Anti-war marches go global
The world has started the massive protests against war on Iraq, which Melbourne sporting up to 250,000 demonstrators, depending on who you talk to. London is expecting half a million or more tomorrow.…
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Flat is go, heating and all
Well it took a bit of hassling get everything right but we now have our flat all kitted out. Yay! Considering it's going to be -4 degrees tonight, I'm pretty glad we've got the heating going. We've ha…
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My god, we won!
We went to an English pub in Kennington to watch the match last night, Australia vs England. We were the only Aussies in the pub but it was a good natured crowd, considering we whupped their butts. A…
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Moved in, just one problem
We moved house over the weekend. The new place is fantastic: large, bright, airy and clean. We chose the place for those reasons. There's one rather major problem though: the central heating doesn't w…
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Elected Upper House? Perish the Thought!
A strange thing is happening to a strange pre-democracy relic in this country. The House of Lords is about to vote on whether it should be abolished. For those of you who don't understand, the House o…
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A little bit of snow...
It snowed last night here in London, which is quite unusual. It was really more of a blizzard at work in NW London, with about three inches dumped in only a few hours. Of course this meant there were…
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Stretched metaphors spring back
Rupert's southern subs are getting their metaphors confused. Fires are supposedly laying "siege" to Sydney. Now we get Fires pound south-west Sydney, which conjures up all sorts of images. Then again,…
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Play: The Madness of George Dubya
I saw this play last night in Camden, London. It supposedly finishes on 8th February but I certainly hope it goes longer. Think a musical update of Dr Strangelove. I was expecting a fairly amateurish…
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Republicans go wild for Vietnam war re-enactments
It's funny what you see going through your web server logs. Whenever you hit a web page, your browser sends the address of the site from which you linked, known as the referrer. This gives the web sit…
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We found a new place to live
Holly and I have been hunting around for a new place to live for the last couple of weeks. We've decided it's time to live on our own, adult-like, the already-noisy road outside our bedroom window is…
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Drool material
Sharp are reportedly releasing a Zaurus handheld running Linux. Worthy drool material! I have a friend coming over from Japan next month. Hmmm... Anyone wanna buy a used Ipaq 3630? More seriously, the…
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Two new books from the cyberpunk masters
Advance warning that two new books will soon be out by cyberpunk masters Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson will be released in February, at least in the US. Qui…
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2002 musical highlights
Some fantastic music was releaed in 2002, and I managed to churn through a large amount of it despite the demise of Audiogalaxy as a useful method for musical discovery. Electroclash Perhaps the most…
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Bleurgh
Feel like shit. Holly brought home the gift that keeps on giving: a cold. Yucko. Off work today and about to go back to bed.
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Time For a New Blog
Well after a break of nearly two years, it's time for me to start a blog again. I've been putting it off for so damn long so finally I've got around to doing it. I'm using Blosxom (pronounced "blossom…
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Lots more photos up!
Lots and lots of photos have been added. I just got my photos developed so you can now see us galivanting around here.