Important life lesson: When the nice man at Winner City says "Another bottle of wine, sir?" - you say "No."

Oh my head.  Am I that out of practice?  Anyway, you didn't come here to listen to me whinge about my hangover (and if you did, that's just odd).

I'd find it suspicious that any HMG official declares H1N1 infection low-risk.  When it's made ( Read more... )

Today was a sedate start to the holiday; I pottered between writing, putting more airtime on Blip.fm and getting some things sorted out for June; though this is properly a full day of packing-related activity, I had plans for today.  Lunch, followed by haircut (finally) followed by swimming then working on a piece of kit I've gained which if it ( Read more... )

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Scottish academics posit Robin Hood in Nottingham, not always well-loved.  In your FACE Sheffield!

Drinking rum in pirate uniform on an empty stomach after a day of work and fundraising for Comic Relief tends to embarrassing photographs.  I blink and some git snapped me so I look semi-comatose.  Worse still, I spend a fair chunk of Saturday in a ( Read more... )

...run don't walk to Free Space.

Get an account and look at how the world could be with ubiquitous cubesats.

RIP Don Fontaine. In a world of movie voiceovers, he was the king.  And he always had time for salad.

Saline greenhouses to make the desert bloom.  Someone should do this. Jus sayin'.

In other news...

Blair bodyguard left his gun in Starbucks.  Insert obvious Kara Thrace reference here.  However, I can imagine the hilarity when Tone is attacked by a ( Read more... )

sublime:    The Times on biometric passports. Finally someone realised the emperor is a bit chilly!
ridiculous: Discovering there is a Penge Massive. No I am not making this up.

ganked from elrohana


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Bet is improving following Thursday. We are not out the woods yet but we hoped circumstances improve sufficiently in the next few days. Thanks all of you for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers. Please keep on.

In other news:

Awesome. No, really awesome. A project involving LEDs and pear tree design.

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