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Why is it people denigrate the English weather? I like it. I don't mind the rain. It's only water, after all. If it wasn't for the rain, we'd have brown grass. And what's the appeal of living in a country where it's 35 degrees all summer? I find ...
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Like everyone, spam (or UCE - unsolicited commercial email) is the bane of my life. If you run your own Postfix SMTP server however, there are lots of things you can do to stop it. This is a little crib sheet of what I do on most of my servers (as mu...
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Why is it that we need to be told that the UK is on the highest level of alert today? Will it do anything, apart from worry the general populous, and alert terrorists and ne'er-do-wells that they're about to be rumbled? How about the media agree n...
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Alcohol is worse for you than LSD, and a lot worse for you than Ecstasy. So say the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. They ranked some of the major drugs, rating them by * Physical harm * Dependence * Social harm with a scor...
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So. $9 billion goes "missing" from Iraq. What happens? Not too much. But, if you're in a flooded city, you're homeless, your government is taking a long time to get help to you, and you steal some alcohol, what happens? That's right. 15 years in p...
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I'm sure everyone has seen this before, but it's just amazing that it exists in this day and age. Google.com image search for Tiananmen square Change the .com to .cn, and.... Google.cn image search for Tiananmen square Well, who cares - as long ...
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Whatever you think of him, watching someone hold their breath underwater for 7 minutes and 8 seconds is quite impressive, even if it did end in a bit of an emergency. One has to wonder quite why he does it though. I suppose it's a good way to sell lots ...
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I've just watched a documentary called 911 Loose Change. It's a film that seeks to ask a lot of valid questions about 911. I'm generally not a conspiracy theorist (although I maintain a healthily cynical suspicion of politicians and those in power), an...
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"Don't watch The Da Vinci Code", religious people say. "It's a work of fiction. Instead read our book about our invisible sky wizard. It's all true." Perhaps religious types should stop trying to tell people what to do and think? I know it's a pretty ...
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calum@magpie ~ $ grep "meaning of life" /dev/urandom grep: Memory exhausted. calum@magpie ~ $