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2005-10-14 17:03
Well, we don't actually know. But we have to get a presentation ready and in the mail ASAP, so it's probably a combination of stress and Sod's law. Our temperature is certainly below, rather than above, normal. (Hypothermia in a freezing office - which ours still is? No, prolly just hypochondria.)
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2005-10-14 12:53
Binnenhof
hermetisch afgesloten na terreurdreiging
Security
alert grips Dutch city
"Dutch city", Beeboid? Is the Hague really so obscure? (The
Binnenhof is where bits of the government live.)
We are, on account of this story, slightly tense.
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2005-10-14 11:10
The UK's Tory party is currently picking it's next no-hoper; the
LibDems are beyond hope - the job of opposition to the Blair
government is and looks likely to remain vacant.
Our proposal, which is ours, is to outsource it. Schroeder's at a
loose end, isn't it? He may be a bit German, but he's at least a real
politician.
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2005-10-13 13:56
So now we are the proud owner of GBP 2.50's worth of Pinter's finest
plays, courtesy of reading Zwedish (we fondly hope) and of getting to
the Oxfam bookshop ("bookstore") quickly.
Trophyhuntnings aside, we're actually more excited by finding Die
Welt der B�chermacher in the "Die Welt Erkennen" series.
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2005-10-13 10:38
It is the Swedish internets!
Svenska internetsajter f�r bottenbetyg i fr�ga om tillg�nglighet f�r
funktionshindrade.
Zwedish internetsites get bottommarks in the question of accessibility
for the disabled.
In fact, Zwedish websites are often hard to access for the perfectly
abled, although Dutch ones are no better. Politicians are always in
favour of censoring and criminalising almost any form of dissent, but
when will they address the civilisation-menacing threat of internal
frames, eh? When? Think, we implore or beseech them, of the
childrens!
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2005-10-12 18:09
I (sic!) am off to the FDR on Sunday. Norfolk, VA, to be depressingly
specific. In principle I could've booked a weekend in NY, NY, but in
practice I have chosen to take a scenic route with a bankrupt
transatlantic carrier to sneak in more time in Nederland, where I
appear to have been fasttracked to meeting-the-family status.
We'll (sic!) be in Utrecht for my (sic! Pronouns are hard!)
overstoppning, though, since we like Amsterdam vair vair not much.
Between now and Sunday, though, we (sing.) are so very very busy.
Posting may get lighter still, even.
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2005-10-12 13:58
It
is the Court of Imperial Supremacy!
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday from a Wiccan
priestess angry that local leaders would not let her open their
sessions with a prayer.
Instead, clergy from more traditional religions were invited to pray
at governmental meetings in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of
Richmond.
Our clean and fragrant heart bleeds for the many dirty smelly hippies
affected, since we are if anything even less fond of Merkan
Jesusistes. But:
The Supreme Court is already hearing one religious case this
fall. That cases raises the question of whether federal agents can
stop a church from using hallucinogenic tea in its religious
services.
See, silly hippies? That's religion!
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2005-10-12 09:50
It
is, quite frankly, bobbins:
GAELIC is a foreign language, at least as far as Tony Blair is concerned.
The Prime Minister has outraged Gaelic campaigners by revealing that
his office regards the language - along with Welsh - as so alien that
Foreign Office assistance is needed to understand it.
If you have stuff translated by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
"outraged" activistes insist, that must mean you think it's Foreign
and Commonwealth, isn't it? But Gaelic isn't Foreign and
Commonwealth at all! It! Is! An! Outrage!
Donald Martin of Comunn na Gaidhlig, the Gaelic development body, said
No 10's answer suggested the Prime Minister was not taking those
commitments very seriously. "I think we can conclude that the Gaelic
language is being lumped in with foreign languages as far as Downing
Street is concerned. There is no logic to that answer that I can see."
None! At! All! There is of course an ontological gulf - a veritable
ontological chasm! - between langwidges that are Foreign and
langwidges one merely happens not to speak! Certainly for a
politician to confuse these utterly distinct and dissimilar categories
must cast the gravest possible doubt on his or her judgement.
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2005-10-11 16:13
It is
Colorado, which is in the FDRUSA, where the weathers are so dangerous
that even a little sn�kaos managed to kill three (3) persons:
Det kraftige sn�fallet mandag f�rte til at 80.000 boliger i deler av
Colorado mistet str�mmen. Natt til tirsdag var fremdeles 10.000
husstander uten str�m.
The powerful sn�fall on Monday lead to 80,000 citizens in parts of
Colorado being without airconditioning electricity. Overnight
10,000 households were still without electrick.
However a crack emergency-relief team from the Libertoonian Army was
managing to make its way through the area, taunting those affected for
not having their own generators.
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2005-10-11 14:37
It is
Colorado, which is in the FDRUSA, where the weathers are so dangerous
that even a little sn�kaos managed to kill three (3) persons:
Det kraftige sn�fallet mandag f�rte til at 80.000 boliger i deler av
Colorado mistet str�mmen. Natt til tirsdag var fremdeles 10.000
husstander uten str�m.
The powerful sn�fall on Monday lead to 80,000 citizens in parts of
Colorado being without airconditioning electricity. Overnight
10,000 households were still without electrick.
However a crack emergency-relief team from the Libertoonian Army was
managing to make its way through the area, taunting those affected for
not having their own generators.
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2005-10-11 12:36
It is Knut "Typo" Ahnlund, Zwedish Academian, who has, with timing
doubtless as unprompted by PR concerns as it is by punctuality, has just
flouncedoff
from said Akademi in protest at the Nobelisation of "Elfin"
Elfriede Jelinek. A year ago. �sa Mattsson gives him a dose of what
for:
Om du hade l�st Elfriede Jelinek redan n�r hon faktiskt fick
Nobelpriset, med den �ran, kunde du ha avg�tt redan f�rra �ret Knut
Ahnlund!
If you'd read Elfriede Jelinek before she actually got the prize, with
the honour, you could've resigned last year, Mr Ahland.
The new one which wasn't out last week is indeed out this week. We
note in passing that the late
surge to 5/1 for Joyce Carol Oates has nosed her ahead of the
local boy Thomas "Transtromer" Transtr�mer at 6/1. Which is by no
means financial advice, of course.
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2005-10-11 10:01
It
is the .eu domain!
A compter du 7 d�cembre prochain � 11 heures pr�cises, les
entreprises et organismes publics de l'UE qui le souhaitent pourront
enregistrer une adresse internet portant l'extension .eu, affichant
ainsi clairement leur identit� europ�enne.
Starting from 7 Decembre at 11 am exactly, the enterprises and public
organismes of the EU which wish it will be able to register an address
with the extension .eu, thus affichant clearly their identit�
Europ�anne.
There are 475 authorised agents including 35 in Belgium! We might
have a word with the supplier of our Zwedish domain, though, and then
think seriously about rehosting somewhere .eu flavoured.
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2005-10-10 17:09
-
PLEEEEASE turn the heating on, persons? It's warmer outside than in
the office. (Also brighter, but why we shun the lights is another
story, for sure.)
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2005-10-10 12:28
�1.
Crack squirrels
are a recognised phenomena [sic] in the US.
[via]
�2.
En stab
p� tio-tolv l�kare, barnmorskor och sjuksk�terskor har handplockats
till denna historiska f�dsel.
A team of 10-12 doctors, midwives and nurses has been handpicked for
this historic birth.
[It is of course kronprinsess Mary of Danmark and especially her
imminent infant.]
�3.
Le mont Everest, sommet le plus �lev� du monde, est quelques
m�tres moins haut que ce que l'on croyait, ont annonc� des
scientifiques chinois qui ont mesur� en mai dernier le toit du monde.
Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, is some metres lower than
was thought, announced Chinese scientistes who measured the world's
roof last May.
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2005-10-10 10:16
In order to get a job in Abroad we are seeking to commoditise our
skill set. Which in our line of work means Microsoft certification,
which in our case will involve C#.
C# is significantly less wretched than C++ or Visual Basic (neither of
which is at all hard to improve on) and Microsoft actually give away
enough stuff for the learner, but the whole experience is fairly grim
nonetheless: Microsoft and its platforms have more in common with
Scientology than with the rest of the programming universe, and books
- even O'Reilly books - on their many "technologies" are written by
losers who know no better, since if they did they'd presumably be
doing it.
Jesse
Liberty - for it is he! - does what we can only assume is his best
with the hilarious abstract virtual public keyword soup and
we have no reason to doubt it's the best book on the subject on the
market, but it nonetheless isn't very good.
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