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and they are proud of it.
Towards the end of the 80s, I read that the Student Union at Queens University, Belfast (yeah, in Northern Ireland) was importing more beer than anybody else in Belfast.
In my first year at university (sadly not Belfast Queens, I was told far too late that for the very average weekly [...]

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Link. Read thru to the end.

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Movie clip.

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Your Machiavelli score is: 75
You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli’s opinions.

Maybe I am not as cynic as I thought.

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Time table and fare for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
This new railway is going to be a powerful tool to bind the Communist Chinese empire together.
Very tempting.
Update (3/7): Excellent Wired Article=.

“Every day I think about whether the railway will have problems in the next 10 to 20 years,” he says. The government has thus far only ignored [...]

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Best Note from a Daughter Ever.

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Back in 2004, when Jasper first went to the OP and went up the Frog Hopper, he was very mad.
Last Sunday we went to the OP while the Lady was away in Macau.

He did it three times.

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People want more.
I suppose I shouldn’t be, ‘cos 3 is the number that follows 2, but I am quite shocked to find out about Shure’s E500 IEM. Shure’s E5 already contains two drivers on each side, and now they are putting an extra driver in the new E500.
And there is the 5 [...]

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Last week I took the morning off to visit a local primary school, arranged by Jasper’s nursery. Althou it will be another 2 years before Jasper attends primary school, we will have to make a choice for him much sooner, and it doesn’t hurt to learn a bit more about the popular schools in the [...]

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When I saw the Smartone-Vodafone’s (previously spelt as Smartone-Vodaphone) advert for the so-called “3.5G” mobile data service, I thought maybe they have finally seen the light on how to make better use of their network. It appears to be speedy and reasonably priced. Until you see their terms and conditions.
You can’t use the service for [...]

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After what felt like a whole year, a fellow blogger is finally (yeah!) holding hands with love interest. From the look of it, they might even get it by next summer (fingers crossed!)
Meanwhile, a Python song for our friend:-

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me.
I’ll sit on your face and [...]

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