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2005-10-07 15:31
Quizztime!It's the last working day before the start of the academic year. Should the email system
If you choose the latter, congratulations! You're now ready for a career in public sector ICT (as they call it these days)!
2005-10-07 13:15
Sm�rg�spost
Bland terapeuter och stressexperter har de unga superambiti�sa kvinnorna p� gr�nsen till sammanbrott blivit ett begrepp. And what would a concept be without a book to cash in on it? �2. Travelkaos, thy name is Connex. We remember well, although thankfully not first-hand, the many hilarities of "transport" company Connex's justly truncated stint as a franchise holder on the UK train system. Having been removed by the regulators, they are now inflicing their patented brand of travelkaos on Stockholm. �3. Just so you know Luke 4:24 actually says "And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country." (In the definitive KJV version, that is.) Not "honoured" and not "land". Please update your programs.
2005-10-07 09:57
Thank you, fairy godmother!It is the thwartning of a nasty stupidity:
CHARLES ["Crusher"] Clarke, the Home Secretary, dramatically climbed down yesterday over his bid to outlaw the "glorification" of terrorism by so-called preachers of hate. This is almost certainly still bad legislation, but the reasons why are significantly less obvious (at least to us).
2005-10-06 16:11
The award that wasn't awarded in the nightIt is a very great mystery!
Oenighet eller f�rsening p� grund av bokm�ssan? Where's your homework, Horace? We don't want excuses, we want prizes!
2005-10-06 12:51
Celebrity Deathmatch: Snake vs. GatorIt is the new sensation that's sweeping the (once-great) nation:
The snake was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Dr. Mazzotti said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it.
They're all "Oh this is an ecological catastrophe" but it is in fact -
2005-10-06 09:46
Last night of the prunesThere are many reasons to hate Britain's Tory party, and we've tried most of them, individually and in various combinations, at one time or another. But there is increasingly a case to be made that their feckless and irresponsible mismanagement is depriving the country of an opposition to Tony "Baloney" Blair. Sadly, they don't get it:
Unashamedly appealing to the core Conservative vote, Dr Fox launched a tub-thumping attack on European integration before delighting the conference with an impassioned defence of the Union flag and a promise to "re-establish pride in what it means to be British." Elect Clarke, you stupid Tory zimmer-framed gimps. You owe us.
2005-10-05 17:35
Why we are so certifiableWe have decided we want to be certified as a programmer for Micro$oft's many programming tools so that we can elope to the Netherlands. We've always been strickly Linux, of course, but our perspective has lately experienced some readjustments.
2005-10-05 14:13
What's large, pink and interesting?It is the Financial Times, which is very interesting indeed and our new favourite Englishbladet for the simple reason that it leaves out all the stuff about celebrities and foopball and lifestyles that clutters up lesser 'bladets and sticks to stuff we all need to know:
Cumulatively, airlines have been cash negative since the Wright brothers took their first flight in 1903. It's also the most Marxiste 'bladet that there is: cherchez le dosh, isn't it?
2005-10-05 09:29
What's brown and sticky?
While Coke may not always produce a smile, a survey by the Economist magazine (Standage's employer), suggests that the soft drink's presence is a great indicator of happy citizens. When countries were polled for happiness, as defined by a United Nations index, high scores correlated with sales of Coca-Cola. In the Economistiverse, there is in fact no true proposition p such that does not imply q, where q is the intrinsic financiak, moral and spiritual superiority of a free-market economy.
2005-10-04 15:54
Groanning in the RoamningWe couldn't find our Luxembourg mobile so we took our Vodaphone one to the Netherlands. We then used it - our trein was delayed for two (2) hours by a person being squished under it - and it turned out to be startlingly expensive. The EU has been doing its level best to combat roamning overcharging:
The European Commission has set up a website to help people cut the high cost of using mobile phones abroad. [...] Telecoms companies suck, and Skype is eating a growing proportion of their dinners, and mobile companies are next for the chopping block. If their laughable 3G performance ever gets up to speed (which admittedly is an if other than of smallness) then we will all promptly note that 3G allows flat-rate data transport and do a Skype on them as well. Your number's up, evil gouging scumbag mobile phone companies, and you will not be missed.
2005-10-04 14:05
Wheel see...We just tried to get new nuts for our (Bristol) bicycle's front wheel, but we appear to have been sold a new wheel instead. There is undoubtedly a good reason for this; we just hope that it isn't that we're a sucker.
2005-10-04 10:21
Sm�rg�shoorah!We got a postcart from the Open Universiteit Nederlands this morning, in Dutch, which we can read. (We think we will study with them in the future - they have a Wetenschapsleer course we more than slightly fancy.) And the EU and Turkey are negociating, at last, over the latter's membership of the former. And Aftonbladet is doing Ramadan:
Edina Sabic �r 24 �r och bor i Sk�vde. You should see her breakfast, for sure!
2005-10-03 17:03
Why we are so very inescapableThey may 've shut C&A in Blighty, but we tracked it to its Dutch lair and bought its many corduroy trousers anyway. We're a bit disturbed that they claim we have a 36 waist, but since we've still very much a 32 in Levi-Strauss's jeans we assume it is because they don't quite get the "inch" thing. (Neither, if it comes to that, do we.)
2005-10-03 09:58
Uw fiets terug, nederlandse? Nee, hoor!We know what you're thinking, Varied Reader, but we are willing to claim - with a straight face if necessary - that some of the reason we are so stiff and also so sore is that we are the proud owner of a gazelle three-(3)-speed bicycle which is stabled, for our bicycling convenience, somewhere in Noord Nederland. Did you know, by the way, that they also cycle on the wrong side of the road? Vair vair confusing, that. But if you cycle, as we did, into town you get the considerable, at least to us, pleasure of joining in with an impromptu peleton. And it's so flat that you can cycle entirely in our preferred way or manner, which involves infrequent micro-bursts of pedalling and a lot of freewheeling. |