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Not Happy…
…I’m not on broadband yet. Got all the equipment, I’m signed up for it. But it turns out that I need a cable or wireless router to connect me to the downstairs telephone line. And I haven’t got a money for it!
Bah.
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Side effects
Me and drugs – whether legal or illegal – have never mixed happily. I seem to be way too sensitive to their myriad side-effects. Take the time some years ago when I was put on a powerful steroidal painkiller for problems with my ankles. “Has been known to cause mental [...]
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A Quickie…
…because I’m now on pay-per-minute dialup. Yup, I’ve finally bitten the bullet, waved by-by to AOL and signed up for broadband. Unfortunately, my spanking-new broadband modem won’t arrive until next Tuesday, so I’m on BT’s “how much a minute??!!??” dialup service until then. Hence the lack of posts. However, looking on [...]
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errrkkk…
Work!!
I’m busy – so I haven’t been able to write a proper post for days. Got to get Transit together, got to rebuild the Elfin Diaries site…
So i can’t write about the marvelous autumn colours, or the peace now that Son is spending a few days away, or watching John & Pauline’s kitten chasing [...]
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Phew….
…Just had a call from Elfin Diaries Caroline. She says she keeps getting complaints from people that the website won’t load for them.
I have been trying to tell her for months that the Erol shopping-cart software that the site runs on is rubbish – full of depreciated tags, frames and buggy Javascript. So it’s [...]
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News You Didn’t See (3)
“If people re-associate with the world of work, suddenly they come alive again. Work will overcome depression and stress a lot more than people sitting at home watching daytime television.” – David Blunkett, Secretary of State, Department of Work & Pensions.
While sitting down to a morning of Trisha might not help you out [...]
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Shorts
A random collection of other peoples’ blog entries, for your education and entertainment (and because I can’t be arsed to write a proper post):
How To Fake Fingerprints
Suggested Kit For Alien Abduction Victims
Titan Rocks
Share A Secret
The Principles of Prognostication
The Galloway Levellers
Sex On TV
Is It True That Time Has No End?
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News You Didn’t See (2)
“Last week 600 people were stopped and searched in Brighton under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. According to the Home Office, “Stop and search under Section 44 is an important tool in the on-going fight against terrorism” and that the use of the powers was “intelligence-led [...]
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Strange Attractor
Yesterday, got an email from a loony. A genuine one – he directed me to his web page, which set out all the reasons why he believed himself to be telepathic, a prophet, persecuted by MI5 and the police, guided by angels – and was possibly also a manifestation of Christ.
I didn’t reply.
This morning, [...]
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