Crimes on the Air Side!
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08/05/2008
I am again staggered! For the past few years this Labour Government has insisted on: Monitoring every moment of mine through the use of CCTV throughout the UK. Tracking my movements across the UK by monitoring my cars registration number plate and supplying that information (without my consent) to...
Crimes on the Air Side!
Spanish visitors
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07/05/2008
I have had these Spanish bluebells put into a jug. They smell very nice...
Spanish visitors
Hamble the reed sleyer
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07/05/2008
Here is my loom's reed, suspended horizontally, for "ease" of sleying. I'm...
Hamble the reed sleyer
Burma's suffering continues
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07/05/2008
With the Cyclone death toll now passing the 22,000 mark and another 41,000 reported missing, it seems that Burma's suffering will only increase in the coming weeks. At least Burma's Military leaders have agreed that the UN can start delivering aid, albeit only one plane for now. However, I was appalled...
Burma's suffering continues
Drive Now, Starve Later!
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05/05/2008
As the USA government continues to subsidise its farmers to the tune of 51 cents per US gallon of Ethanol to divert corn production away from food and animal feed to domestic fuel production - for the USA SUV's of course, is it any wonder that we have seen the immense hikes in the price of basic food...
Drive Now, Starve Later!
Peek a boo! - I can see you too!
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05/05/2008
This must be what a number of employees of Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) must have thought as they freely trawled through many peoples personal tax records over the past few years. According to a written answer parliament by Treasury Minister Jane Kennedy, it has shown that 192 HMRC staff...
Peek a boo! - I can see you too!
The cost of PC hardware!
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05/05/2008
I was clearing out some old papers over the weekend I came across some invoices for one of my old PC's. I used to build them, but now its cheaper to buy them fully built (or is it?). Compared with today's prices we really had an expensive hobby!! For example... 64 MB RAM cost £57.00! Toshiba CDROM...
The cost of PC hardware!
Oddity of the week!
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05/05/2008
I found this oddity in one of my LA Times newsletters over the weekend. 
Oddity of the week!