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01:27 pm
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Camping in mid-Wales
Bit of a holiday...
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http://codesmiths.com/dingbat/lj/200806_Wales/
Tags: aberystwyth, camping, hafod, holiday, photos, wales
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11:36 pm
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Obit: Terry Fields, Militant MP – the workers’ MP on a workers’ wage
from http://www.marxist.com/terry-fields-obituary.htm
We have just received the sad news of the death of Terry
Fields, a Militant supporter and Labour MP for Liverpool Broadgreen (1983 -92).
He died over the weekend after a long struggle with cancer. Terry is remembered
by all the comrades who knew him as a true class fighter and a man who stuck to
his socialist principles throughout. Whatever you thought of Fields' politics, he was one of the most principled and honest exponents of them. Few would deny him that.
Tags: obituary, terry fields
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01:11 am
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Tech Adventure
It is in the nature of all people called Kate to eventually upgrade their Moggie Minors to electric vehicles.
http://www.techadventure.org/
(they say Hi! by the way)
Don't know where the RepRap people got to
Big shout out to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shevek for making it all happen.
See you in Stoke Gifford on Friday
Tags: electric vehicle, ev, techventure, trinity
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11:08 pm
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OED
I do not haz any sort of bukkit
I do, however, now have an OED.
1933 edition. Full text, plus supplement, readable size text, 13 enormous volumes. 45 quid.
Result!
Anyone selling several feet of huge bookshelf, please apply to the above address...
Tags: oed
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08:16 pm
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What is it?
Vulcan pet?
Or an aardvark wearing a sweater?
Bet Now!
http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-circumstances.html
Tags: animal, weird
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01:04 pm
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Indiana Jones
Well I wasn't too impressed either. Probably the worst film you can still scrape together if you already start out with Harrison Ford, Indy and a hatful of cash.
This is funnier sarcasm than I usually manage thogh, and it save me trying to write anything myself:
http://www.the-editing-room.com/indianajones4.html
Tags: film, indiana jones
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07:32 pm
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New species of Ye Olde Smiley spotted!
:-þ
(Usenet uk.d-i-y)
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01:25 pm
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Dorkbot Bristol
Well that was fun!
Last night (regular 3rd Tuesdays, apparently) was Bristol Dorkbot in the old ARKive office.
From artists and filmmakers to scientists, programmers, architects and designers, Dorkbot is a global movement for people doing strange things with electricity.
Free for All: Show & Tell Night + Guest speaker: Luke Jerram
Luke Jerram is a local installation artist. jarkman might remember his work from Farnborough.
John Honniball brought a geek-tastic display of retro calculators. Chris Wallace (@UWE) talked about geolocation for small boats and open AIS information. Also some Bristol electric vehicle people.
In a dark side-room was an installation by the people who did 'Masque of the Red Death', which I know a few of you were involved with. More comments on that later...
Dorkbot
Flickr
Thanks to r_is_for_rachel for the heads-up, I'd totally missed it otherwise.
Current Location: Bristol
Tags: bristol, dorkbot, geek
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08:26 pm
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Southport lifeboat rally
( Another boat for Dad )
Tags: dad, model boat, photos, southport, weekend
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01:44 pm
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Building work begins for Beautiful Days
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7455673.stm
Tags: beaver
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11:51 pm
[Link] | Dad, how did you set fire to your bed?
(annoyed) I didn't set fire to the bed. It was the blackbird.
The Blackbird?
Well, it might have been the cat.
This is an authentic customer statement.
Tags: dad, life in a young ones sketch
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12:50 am
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Joys of driving
( Not driving past any more friends' houses today. )
Tags: cars
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05:16 pm
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Henry Segrave
Happy Friday 13th!
It's not only Friday 13th, it's also the 78th anniversary of the death of Henry Segrave, which was also on Friday 13th June, in 1930. He, and his mechanic Victor Halliwell, were killed trying to set a water speed record in the speedboat Miss England II on Windermere. Victor Halliwell is buried in Portishead, beneath a bronze headstone paid for by Castrol. If I was around this weekend I'd maybe go over and visit - apparently the grave isn't in a good state these days.
Tags: friday 13th, henry segrave, miss england, victor halliwell
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03:45 pm
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Escher Stingrays
From Deep Sea News: Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Sting Ray Migration
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/06/friday_deepsea_picture_sting_r.php
Tags: deep-sea news, escher, stingray
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09:25 pm
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Shoegazey Pie
Off to the Folk House for a gig at the regular Oh The Woe! night, bringing Melancholy and her inconsolable gloom to the fore through the artists and musicians that sing her praises
( Woe is me... )
Tags: bristol, caroline martin, daisy chapman, gig, light of words, oh the woe
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04:30 pm
[Link] | Lysenkoist project methodology
Stakhanovite medal for coding under assault by wild beasts
This applies the principles of Leninist-Stalinist agrobiology, as developed by Lysenko, to project management. Agile techniques are denounced as a bourgeois pseudoscience.
Key principles of Lysenkoist project management are:
Lysenkovism follws the principles of Lamarckian evolution by which, "an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring". Thus there is no need for any sort of bourgeois genetic theories, or external recording of project unhistory so as to pass information on to future projects.
Lysenkovism may appear especially popular after recent periods of forced collectivism.
Stakhanovite metrics measure the completion of a project by the hours worked, in inverse relationship to their proximity to the customer. In combination with eschatological methods, these can reconcile the prioritisation of elapsed effort over product quality with the absolute dictat of the rigid go-live date.
Comrade Developer Nikita Izotov has managed to produce 607 lines of SQL triggers in a single shift, all whilst being assailed by lion cubs.
Links
Tags: in our time, lysenko, project management
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10:31 am
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Cuttlefish too damn scary by half
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7435757.stmBefore they have even hatched, cuttlefish embryos can peer out of their eggs and spot potential prey.
Tags: cuttlefish
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06:25 pm
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Wheels and Tracks
FWD MM-1 Teracruzer
http://www.mace-b.com/38TMW/Missiles/MM-1.htm
Cold-War budgets, big squishy tyres. Let's Off-Road!
(Excellent site, BTW)
Tags: off-road, teracruzer, vehicles
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01:13 am
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Liverpool Street station engulfed in huge fireball
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7429638.stm
Londoner Matt Wynn, 43, a banker, said: "I've come along with a bottle of champagne because I want to show that you can drink responsibly on the Tube and not cause trouble...
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03:36 pm
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Usenet 40,000
What's scarier than Hello Kitty 40,000?
( Ph34r my L33T verbosity )
Tags: cheese and ham, get a life, usenet
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