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If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right. Henry Ford.

Just got back from spending Christmas in Villa Paranacito, Entre Rios. It was lovely - eating, drinking, sunbathing, and swimming in the river. I also watched a rather surreal Nativity play put on by the local children. It had a real baby in it, and all...

Fancy reading something fairly random and funny, but at the same time, devoid of content? Perhaps you should try the Uncyclopedia. Wikipedia it is not.

Well, I am alive, and online in Argentina. Buenos Aires to be exact. Flores to be even more exact. It's hot. It's humid. The steak at La Rosa Negra in Martinez is excellent. The bag-snatches in the street aren't so great. The prices are very good for Eu...

To all the people arriving at this site searching for "Calum Best", I would like to save you some time, and let you know I'm not him. Or rather he's not me. I am of course the best Calum. If you're really annoyed, you can send me a message letting me kn...

Why do so many people resent paying £121 per year for the BBC? I think it provides amazing value for money - the fact it doesn't have to pander to commercial interests leaves it able to pursue the slightly more alternative programming that makes it diff...

Je viens de Londres. - I am from London Merci de me depanner - Thanks for your help Ou est la gare? - Where is the station? Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe? - What is happening? Ou sont les pompiers? - Where are the firemen? Avez-vous un extincteur? - Do ...

I've collected some humorous alternatives to the original teach a man to fish proverb: Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. Add new ones as comments if you know any. Teach a...

I would like to put a misconception to rest. We're commonly told that we should all move to IPv6 because we're short of IPv4 addresses, and we'll run out soon. Fiddlesticks. If you have a *nix machine, run the following command: lynx -dump https://...

You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this...