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>Quote

Posted on 23 October, 2009 by jb

> If you talk to God, that’s called “prayer”. If God talks to you, that’s called “schizophrenia” Thomas Szasz

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>How silly

Posted on 23 October, 2009 by jb

> BurgerKing in Japan is celebrating Microsoft’s rollout of Windows 7 with a 7 patty Whopper. A mere 2000 calories. Given that I’m running Mac OSX 10.5.8 on my PowerBook, I feel I deserve something appropriate. About 74 metres high, … Continue reading →

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>"The weather’s so crap"….

Posted on 22 October, 2009 by jb

>   said Hildegard at her eponymous cafe in Cornaiano in South Tyrol “that this might cheer you up a bit” It was and it did.

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>Lost in translation

Posted on 17 October, 2009 by jb

> Technology refresh time. Out goes the Becker Highspeed satnav thingy. In comes the Vermin (Garmin, I think…) Nüvi 1390. All very flash and even does the text-to-voice trick and tells you the name of the next road. Which is … Continue reading →

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>Forget the Bean Bag…

Posted on 14 October, 2009 by jb

> ..here’s the Cactus Sofa

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>Does this really surprise anyone?

Posted on 13 October, 2009 by jb

> The New York Times ran an article on Sunday, titled “U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas“ This can’t surprise anyone who’s visited the United States. When you front up to Immigration, you’re photographed and fingerprinted, questioned and … Continue reading →

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>Current events

Posted on 13 October, 2009 by jb

> Courtesy of Political Irony

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>Scrabbled

Posted on 11 October, 2009 by jb

> Source

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>This is interesting. I think

Posted on 10 October, 2009 by jb

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>Ye who speaketh with forked tongues

Posted on 9 October, 2009 by jb

> Dr. Rowan Williams, the Bishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England (of which I’m a very lapsed member) ripped into the moneychangers in the temple the other week. Asked if the City was returning to business … Continue reading →

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