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Weird News Day
In some alternate reality, this kind of thing would happen every day. 59 Democratic state legislators in Texas went walkabout to avoid voting on measures to aid their opponents. While the renegades were off in a Holiday Inn across the state line in Oklahoma, where Texas state troopers could only politely request that the legislators…
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Light ‘Em If You’ve Got Em
Fellow Scottish person Meg Pickard moved recently, and made this IKEA observation … drove to good old IKEA to pick up a few selected bits and bobs – a TV bench, couple of stools, desk lamp, and the usual extraneous guff. No tealights though, which is a first – as I’m sure I’ve mentioned here…
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The Time Of Mad
We‘re going nuts right now getting ourselves ready for the release of SmoothWall Corporate Server 3.0, so I haven’t had much of a chance to update the Matrix Reloaded daily stuff — hopefully at the weekend I’ll get a chance.
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UK Release Dates That Make Me Go “Auuuuugh!”
Some UK cinema release dates that drive me potty — The Matrix Reloaded — not out until 21st May 2003 Bruce Almighty — not out until 27th June 2003 Charlies Angels: Full Throttle — not out until 4th July 2003 Finding Nemo — not out until 3rd October 2003 The Italian Job — not out…
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Slashdot: “NASA Probe Launched!” … Erm, Seven Years Ago
Further proof that the once-mighty slashdot.org is becoming, um, how do I say this tactfully — poo? CowboyNeal let through a story submission entitled “NASA Sending Probe to Saturn”, which discusses the joint NASA/ESA/ISA (Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, and specifically Titan. It all sounds great, but the problem is that Cassini-Huygens was…
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“I Hate Snakes, Chuck, I Hate ‘Em!”
It looks like one of my long-running wishes is to come true in November 2003 — the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released on DVD! (local mirror copy, as IME Yahoo! stories tend to disappear and change URLs at random) Downsides Have to repurchase movies I already own No commentary tracks Upsides It’s Indy on…
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“It’s Easy To Lose Track of the News …”
A regular feature on the BBC News website, 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week — hat tip to Meg.
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‘Allo John, Gotta New SODIMM?
Well, I put a couple of SODIMM laptop memory modules up on eBay, but only one of them sold — the other is a PC133 192MB SODIMM, with no reserve and a reasonable £25 ‘buy it now’ price. If you’re interested, or know someone who’s interested, feel free to check it out.
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The Red Pill, Or The Blue Pill?
In three weeks, The Matrix will have us again, which is unfortunately a week later than anyone at Cannes, or in the United States — and for that matter, in Canada, France, Holland, Taiwan, Australlia, Iceland, etc. too. I’m looking forward to this film so much, but I just know that someone on a mailing…