June 2005
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No child left behind ?
Life is not fair but in this bbc article (china cannot read this) We are having a meeting with Michael’s teacher to discuss his progress and what we can do about his unusual behaviour. Michael displays characteristics of high functioning autism .. Annabel is a pretty, intelligent 11-year-old, but her performance in school is very… Continue reading
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Catching up
If you have never read this blog before, you will not know that I am partial to some science fiction. Last year about this time I managed to rent Babylon 5 (a homage to Lensman, one of the first sci-fi books) on DVD (which at the time four seasons where available with six disks per… Continue reading
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Selling to China
I had an opportunity to see through the bullshit, and ask a chinese person why they would not buy a technical book from America as it is not available in China – the reason supplied was postage cost Now this book I have seen and I decided not to purchase it – it looked ok.… Continue reading
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Blowing up demo software
Got a demo peice of software and I have spent the weekend ‘having fun’ I ‘Brainwiped’ an older pc – it has a hardisk in that an computer engineer (working in microsoft windows XP) pronounced dead, a friend gave it to me after I transfered all of his lost data off that the ‘engineer’ said… Continue reading
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Tim Henman – Englands only tennis player.
One player is enough, then there is this ‘love’ business in the rules (?a leftover french word). Just image the word ‘love’ in football (soccer for the americans) commentator: “welcome to the the second half, the score is Love Beckman…..Footballer Wife 1 is coming in. The Secretary is offside, no sorry she having a word… Continue reading
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No UK idcard required for this crook.
Meet the seedy side to to sending Jobs to india. Please meet Kkaran Bahree in Delhi and that cash he is holding for your financial (bank) profile, he also offered the reporter a monthly supply of your banking information for an extra fee naturally. Now if the uk identity card is meant to stop 'fraud',… Continue reading
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I did ? really plus other tales
I am now a Level 1 certified chicken sexer so I can now look after your chickens. Offers? The mains electrics are down There is now a very large hole in the road as well it seems the local electrical distrubution box blew up – the mains did not even trip. Because of that so… Continue reading
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The curse of Microsoft
Netsky (a windows virus) has returned. The internal service we use reported and rejected it. – our ‘investment’ in making Billy Gates rich is now very minor. If any of you think that a Microsoft server or client is ‘secure’ get real. What irks me most is that I need to have a mail scanner… Continue reading
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I am going to miss Dr Who.
For the record I am not a long term ‘nutcase’ dr who fan – but it has been fun with Chris Eclestone, and hopefully made some people think with its subtle stories underneath, and more believable prop things. There was a fair amount of loose ends that really where not cleaned up in the last… Continue reading
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return of the handy
I finally found a cheap handy (mobile phone), its also comes with a sim card with a large telephone company I never used before but have heard of. My existing supplier decided that once I emailed them about a query that they could then spam me. Oh and I’m still waiting for the answer about… Continue reading
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It should not happen to a chicken sexer
19:00 sitting in the office and I notice ‘smoke’ coming out of the crap laser printer (there is a better one as well) Some joker decided to laser print on inkjets with some laser text. Well now I know why they say ‘dont print on inkjet paper’. Printer appears to be none the worse –… Continue reading
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delusional pop stars
Live 8 Concert tickets are on ebay – shock f*cking horror Bob I mean fancy that happening As to Wacko Jacko’s strange verdict, blame the mothers why that seems to be the conclusion. It is a sordid tale where nobody comes off looking good. Continue reading
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Failed (eg lack of ratings) SciFi
Enterprise died (hooray) but what happens when they make a film of something about three people saw on the television and then ranted and raved to everybody that it was ‘cool’. Take Firefly I have never seen it (i once rented the dvd and the dvd would not play – not on my purchase list… Continue reading
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Oh happy days…
For those of you who listen to club music (trance/mellow or whatever the names of sub categories will morph to next) Somebody did a mix of some of the songs from Flashdance, a chessy film (imdb: tt0085549). Parents have it video. Borrowed it and I finally got around to viewing it. She apparently could not… Continue reading
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Catch 22 pearls in the rough
Sorry but this is another post about Oyster – the London underground electronic ticket that you keep a cash balance on and each time you use it – it should work out cheaper (sounds good to me) than buying a paper ticket I had a cash update that i could not charge to my card,… Continue reading
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Christians are canibals? some great educational guidelines
Ok I never got the god bug/virus/disease. So when I went to church age 5, ‘God’ did not turn up, so it was bit of a disappointment after all those stories. Thomas Paine got it spot on in my opinion. When he questions quite how satan managed to quickly get out of hell, and then… Continue reading
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English Colonalism good or bad ?
Was it bad ?, one could accuse the greeks of the ‘C’ word in The History of the Peloponnesian War, a book by Thucydides, but somehow they are now seen as great thinkers. I bring this up as when I went to school I was educated/’instructed’ that the British empire was ‘bad’. Malthus in the… Continue reading
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Stupid emails, reviewers and polls
Maybe I was the only one to get it but some american ‘educational’ establishment wanted to know why I review books/things on Amazon. I deleted the spam and I will answer that question here. Is this the typical Amazon book reviewer: ‘profile’ ? axe murderer (convicted) with time on there hands ? I actually don’t… Continue reading
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Webdesign has been killed by Microsoft
Website needs a refurbishment – so having not seen anything that I like the look of in websites. So i purchase another more recent book on css (please note i already use css with the ‘bits’ that work across browsers) The trouble is they all look like blog templates. and there are huge warnings saying… Continue reading
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The Globe.
There will be no review of the performance. As I did not go because i was feeling off. Hence the no comment. I hate wasting any money like that. I will try again. Continue reading
Bananas in the Falklands 