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Terrorism old and new
I’ve always liked the Guy Fawkes mural at Charing Cross tube station. You can see in the photo where the litter bin used to be (there are no litter bins on the London Underground, they were removed when the IRA was at war with the UK – rubbish bins were used to deposit bombs). The consequence of a recent war has become part of the mural of an even older one. -
The Chomster on Nation States
“…the nation-state system has been one of the must brutal and destructive creations of Europe and its offshoots, imposed by force on much of the rest of the world, with horrendous consequences for centuries in Europe, and elsewhere until the present.” See the full ting ‘ere.
This is from a debate in which the great man has honoured Noah Cohen by taking it “seriously enough” to respond.
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Firefox: wired. IE: expired
Damn straight. The new Mozilla site is cool . Or, as they say, “Firefox: wired. IE: expired”. Yeah baby.
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Spot the difference
Which church would you rather belong to? The options are:
- Brian Tamaki’s Destiny Church;
- Brian Tamariki’s Density Church
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Sexy Beast
I’ve been lucky lately to see so many amazing films, and I’ve struck gold again with Sexy Beast. It’s a British Gangster film with a huge atmosphere. Highlights include: Ben Kingsley, the music, the story, the cinematography….
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eBay really does work
The old Dell laptop needed a hard drive transplant, and I found one on eBay. The auction had about 45 minutes to go. That gave me time to research the drive, register, bid, and get really excited. And then my bid ‘won’. Party on. And today it turned up in the mail. So far, so good. I stuck it in the laptop, installed Windows 2000 (oh, and spent two hours applying security patches) and it seems to work fine. Does anyone in central London need to buy a cheap Dell PIII with 380ish Mb of ram and a 10 gig hard drive (it has a dicky battery, but you can get one on eBay)? I’ll give you a special price.