The above diagram shows IT professionals on the left and normal people on the right. Bear with me and I shall explain- Before taking my computer to the shop for its ‘tune up’ I decided to set up the old machine with a WiFi connection to my router. Oh bugger! “Information technology”? Has to be [...]
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Random collection during the rounds of articles of note that you may or may not have seen on your rounds: El Reg and how Google accesses the PM better than ministers Scientists refusing to debate climate science Clinton, the inveterate liar – further evidence Was the World Press photo winner photoshopped? UK recording industry targets [...]
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Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to [...]
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I do wish people would be careful where they landed their cars. Haiku agrees: “An experimental car has crashed near a school in British Columbia, Canada. Only five cars like this have been produced. From the article: ‘A release from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) confirmed the flying car was “an American corporately registered I-Tech [...]
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1. When Gene Kelly asked what she’d like engraved on her gravestone, she replied: ‘ People sometimes had a problem placing her face, but they never forgot her pins.’ The ask: in 1957, what would she wear on those pins? 2. Received an Academy Award nomination in her first talking film, switched later to comedy. [...]
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Check yours by clicking the pics.
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Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to [...]
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Stoopid Tall, A 14-Foot-Tall Bicycle
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…meanwhile on Mars
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1. Don’t know whether to shake the head or throw up – zero footprint baby: ”If you are parent, or an expectant one, and care about the world we leave our children, then read this book. It will change the way you view your role as both a parent and a citizen of planet Earth.”—Michael [...]
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Dark Roasted:
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My Alisa in Russia – wasn’t my furniture by the way The 2013 Pets Parade was the brainchild of Ubermouth who remembers the last one and thinks it’s high time there was another. A few of the pets also made contact, objecting to the term “pet” and pointing out that they indeed do the “owning” [...]
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1. The 2013 Pets Parade will be posted at 19:30 UK time. 2. If I’ve missed any entries/pics/descriptions, have written them wrongly or whatever, I hereby humbly apologize in advance and shall make the appropriate corrections henceforth. 3. Some paragraphs and descriptions which don’t relate specifically to the pets have been omitted. Remember please, it’s [...]
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There are six, I tell you …
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Entries were not many for a few days but some are now coming in and so we’ll have the parade Saturday evening. One thing which concerns me is that there might be some stick between various offline personalities and thus I’d like to make the proviso that this is all about pets, nothing extraneous. You [...]
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In 2010 we had a Pussy Parade which went well. Long ago, on the other blog, we had a Pets Parade and that was the scene of some unpleasantness as I recall, so much so that the concept was dropped at this blog in semi-perpetuity. Well, we’ve had a request for another Pets Parade. So [...]
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Sad to see Kate Bush looking like that. Interesting though how she still affects people, male, female, young, old. I like her very much. Someone commented about having dinner with her and methought – hmmm, that wouldn’t be too bad at all – for me at least. Come to think of “having dinner with”, which [...]
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Enough’s enough and a joke’s a joke. At lunchtime today, right chuffed about finally getting permission to go ahead with the major project, I took off on the bike for town to get some bits and pieces. 50 metres from the place which replaced my tubes some time back, there was the sound of either [...]
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…and some more here
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At home, I don’t have a set of tea cups, more’s the pity but I do have all those below. Change the square based mug’s wording to James and that’s what I have. The white cappuccino cup is exactly what I have and the Jamie Oliver mug below is exactly what I have again.
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Love thy neighbour:
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Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case. She believes she has the “new information” agents told her they require. But she suspects that the agency already has more information than agents will admit to. Kirkland’s brother, [...]
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Not all funny stuff has to be ONLY funny. It can be useful too. Not all inventions have to make things simpler. Sometimes more difficult is better. Circumstance and intent matter. I like this….. http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/inventions-in-everything-making-life.html Here, the Labyrinth Security Door Chain makes the act of opening a restroom door much more complicated. But why?! Believe [...]
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What’s the state of your desk?
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