Monthly Archives: November 2006

how much is that doggy in the window?

Mark Bernstein has been asking some interesting questions about how much is the value of money through history. For some reason I’ve always found this to be interesting – as a teen I didn’t understand inflation – all I knew … Continue reading

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rasterbation doesn’t make you blind

Once, I planned a surprise for Marica’s birthday. I’d found this wonderful *free* software ‘the Rasterbator‘, which takes your standard image and allows you to print it big. Way big. Hugely big. You run out of toner and paper big. … Continue reading

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cone of silence

I bought an early xmas pressie for us – the 30gb iPods. Yay! They’ve been a while coming while I reconciled myself to paying about four or more times what I’d expect to pay for a 30gb hard drive. You … Continue reading

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christhit is coming…

One of the things I love to hate is pseudo-political correctness gone mad, particularly when this is applied to perfectly clear English by petit bureaucrats. Makes me furious with frustration at the stupidity, and waste of resource$. This week’s example … Continue reading

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walk the walk

Today has seemed rather more turgid than usual – my list of things to do recently has been expanding faster than I can cross things off, and today – ah, today – everything gridlocked and log jammed together. The great … Continue reading

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