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Category Archives: voffle
My pigeon
I think I’ll catch a pigeon To teach it how to dance I’ll keep it in the wardrobe And feed it bread from France My pigeon will be stubborn And steadfastly refuse To switch off Silent Witness So I can … Continue reading
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Singular encounters with famous naturalists
Earlier today I was killing time by attempting to shop for rare and obscure camera lenses which I suspected (correctly) would not be in stock at a particular Oxford-street electronics vendor. As I waited for the shop manager to type … Continue reading
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How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas
The latest podcast on Steve Eley’s Escape Pod has to be the best story of the series to date. For the uninitiated, Escape Pod is a weekly sci-fi audio magazine. It features the best in new fiction and spans the … Continue reading
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O Barqueiro
Our second night in Madeira brought us to this net festooned seafood restaurant in the “downtown†area of Funchal. We had been informed that it was exclusive and “an excellent choiceâ€, far from the main tourist strip. Instead we found … Continue reading
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IT Contractors comment on the ID Card
I found some particularly good comments on the Blairwarch.co.uk blog article about the National ID card scheme: “This is going to be one of the biggest wastes of public money ever. Still, as an IT contractor, maybe I will be … Continue reading
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A Mighty Concession
So ID Cards will be compulsory by 2010, and our government are acting like they have made an enormous and magnanimous concession to the majority of the House of Lords who remain skeptical of this ill-conceived notion. It is just … Continue reading
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Tron 1.0.1
Released in 1982, Tron is an animated feature film from the Walt Disney Corporation. This film combines live action with CGI and traditional cell animation. The artistic result is way ahead of it’s time; indeed we can safely argue that … Continue reading
Of Patents & Broken Windows
This short essay at the “Right to Create” explains the fallacy of IT Patents. We are often told by pro-patent advocates that a harmonious patent system is required for a thriving information economy. For those of us involved in IT, … Continue reading
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Award winning actors detained and “abused” at Luton Airport
What on earth were the Bedfordshire police thinking when they detained and interrogated an award winning group of actors? They had just returned from an award ceremony in where their film “The Road to Guantanamo†had won a “Silver Bear†… Continue reading
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Deadeye Dick’s Deadly Duck-Hunt
This exciting Flash game reveals just how hard shooting caged quails on a private game-shooting reserve must be. I’ve never shot a live animal, but once I began to play this game, the adrenelin rush was nothing short of incredible. … Continue reading
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