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Chrimboid
Mushi mushi, haven vous El Merry Chrimboid und einen Festivio Noo Jahren, uber vous les booze und roasted peanuts!
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$ ytalk bob jim pete stupidpatentperson
“AOL wins instant messaging case“, cried BBC News last night. Basically, AOL has been granted a patent on instant messaging systems, which covers “anything resembling a network that lets multiple instant messaging (IM) users see when other people are present and then communicate with them” … Hmmm, I was doing this on a Linux box…
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Stereolab Singer Killed In Car Accident
I had been randomly browsing mtv.com while taking a break from some coding, and I stumbled across a news article, saying that Mary Hansen was killed “after being struck by a car while riding her bicycle”. She was the 36 year old keyboardist and vocalist for Stereolab. Originally from Queensland, Mary joined Stereolab in 1992,…
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onepointoh baby!
SmoothWall GPL went onepointoh last week … I totally forgot to mention. It’s basically SmoothWall 0.9.9 patched to the gunnels with all the updates and security fixes we’ve applied since we released it on September 15th 2001, and we decided “this is mature enough to be called one point oh.” So we did! Now the…
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It’s (Nearly) Mine!
Something else I forgot to mention (mind like a bloody sieve) was that the building society responsible for my mortgage recently approved the equity transfer to me solely, after my ex decided to up and leave, so just a paper shuffling exercise between the lenders, and two sets of solicitors to go, and the house…
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*pop* … Where The Hell Did That Come From!?
Suddenly realised I had 7.3 gigabytes of unprocessed (e.g. unsorted and unplaylisted) MP3s knocking about on my main non-work file server. Half of that is Sonic Youth stuff (I’m sure some of it is duplicated, but I need to weed out and identify live stuff from ‘b’sides from bootlegs), and the rest is a mixture…
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‘none single stead is rightly stead to snuggle up to launch into’
Machine translation. The automatic process of feeding some text or a website in one language through a program, which then spits out the content in another language. Sounds great! Babelfish made it well-known and popular, Google improved on it a bit, but have a read of elfur’s blog, translated from Icelandic to English using Tranexp.com,…
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Ffffeeeeooooo … Crash And Burn, Huh Mav?
Bloody computers … my main workstation, challenger, is crashing rather too often for my liking … and yes, it’s running Windows — Windows 2000 Professional, to be precise. Maybe “crashing” is too strong a word. It’s hanging. Apps stop responding, then a few seconds later the screen doesn’t redraw, and all I can do is…
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Oh Fopp Thy Micturations Are To Me As Plurdled Gabbleblotchits On A Lurgid Bee
Ahhhh, Fopp … <comicbookguy>best … record store … ever</comicbookguy> … I’ve waxed lyrical about this on meg pickard’s blog, so it’s easier to just link there.