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- An amusing story from my Christmas. Waking up early in the morning to get a start on baking breads, gathering the ingredients for string bean casserole I wandered off into the kitchen. I brought out all the stuff I needed for cranberry and lemon poppy seed bread and during the gathering of the casserole I realized that I was missing one. I had gone shopping earlier in the week and was adamant about purchasing cream of mushroom soup and remember putting a can into my basket. I searched all the cabinets in the kitchen three times in total disbelief of my stupidity and the only thing that could have occured was that I purchased cream of chicken soup instead of CoM soup. |
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- Needless to say another rather unpleasant dining experience prompted this blog. Can i please persuade anyone who runs any sort of business that involves the consumption of food to please, please designate non-smoking areas in your establishments. Better yet make it all non smoking. I find one of the most stomach turning nauseating aspects of daily life is the smell of tobacco (especially when eating!) You can imagine my joy then, when the people surrounding me did not hesitate to light up whilst i was eating. |
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- Needless to say another rather unpleasant dining experience prompted this blog. Can i please persuade anyone who runs any sort of business that involves the consumption of food to please, please designate non-smoking areas in your establishments. Better yet make it all non smoking. I find one of the most stomach turning nauseating aspects of daily life is the smell of tobacco (especially when eating!) You can imagine my joy then, when the people surrounding me did not hesitate to light up whilst i was eating. |
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Market café (Dec 31 2003 13:39 GMT) - Barcelona, December 2003. |
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- RootPrompt points to a BSDnewsletter article on building NetBSD for small and embedded systems. |
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- Tomorrow will be our busiest day of 2004. We've had our New Year's Day sale for most of the twenty years we've been open. Back in the 80s corporate retailers hadn't realized they could force their minimum wage employees... |
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Praktisch (Dec 31 2003 13:38 GMT) - Het voordeel van een nieuw jaar: vijftig weken geen jaaroverzichten meer.... |
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- Roughly 9½ hours remain of the year that was, at least here in snowy Sweden. Looking back, the year has been kind of.. lukewarm, with the exception of summer which was past boiling point. How's your 2003 been? |
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- Combating cyberbullying - cruel messages in an instant. With the click of a key, bullies are humiliating their peers. What are schools doing to tame this behavior? "For one middle-school girl it was a rumor, circulated via text messaging, that she had contracted SARS while on a trip to Toronto. She returned to school and found nobody would come near her. |
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- Today, wow -- the bat is bursting. Bust it open today, downgrade your coffee this morning, make a sandwich for lunch instead of going out, wear fake pearls to your new year's eve party, check your pockets for loose change,... |
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- A few security related articles for New Year's Day from FoxNews: Cities Work to Secure New Year's Celebrations Counter-Snipers to Protect NYC on New Year's Eve World Celebrates Coming of New Year U.S. Bolstering Foreign-Flight Security Israeli Police Warned... |
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Sledge (Dec 31 2003 13:38 GMT) - At the price of a few frozen fingers, we bring back to you some photographs of our courageous expedition into the snow-covered mountains of western Switzerland.... |
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- Huhu, c'est moi. Die Erschöpfung, der Ennui, die Chandos-Krankheit. Das Projekt der Aufklärung auf dem Titelbild des Spiegels (Geblö |
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- mumumu was among the many to write with this news: "XFree86's release engineer David Dawes has announced that "a majority of the XFree86 core team has voted in ... |
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- Via PCLinuxOnline, Linuxbeginner points to RetroBox. RetroBox is a website that sells old computer gear for amazingly reasonable prices. |
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Badger note (Dec 31 2003 13:37 GMT) - LOTR: Badger Edition This internet access area in Brixton Library is a bloody rip-off. See, this is what happens in... |
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- A Symposium on Militant Islam vs. Turkey Why has Turkey become a target of Islamists' Holy Jihad? Panel members: Ersel Aydinli, an assistant professor of international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara and a former counter-terrorism |
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- German police are searching for Islamic militants alleged to have planned car bomb attacks on a military hospital in Hamburg and a U.S. army airport in Frankfurt. The hospital was sealed off after a tip-off. |
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- Im Nürnberger Gefängnis plauderte Hermann Göring 1946 gegenüber dem amerikanischen Psychologen Gustave M. |
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- • eat those 5-10 servings of fruits and veggies (I thought I ate enough, but I was dead wrong!) •... |
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- Un grand merci à Marc qui attire aujourd'hui mon attention sur la citation du jour d'aujourd'hui, si je puis ainsi dire: Accroche ton chariot à une étoile. Ralph Waldo Emerson Me voilà donc ravie de savoir de qui est... |
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- As I come to the end of a year that I have many complaints about and the perfect outlet to express them, I decline that opportunity to instead have a moment of reflection on how fortunate I am that: I... |
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- Been watching the 70s Strikes Back thing on VH1 =] Really, I'm not a comment whore Thought I'd share two of my posts from this year that got more feedback than the rest. Besides the one right before this, I... |
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- (US) That may be why the Medicare prescription drug law actually precluded the government from negotiating bulk discounts using the Medicare program's purchasing power. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_law(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- State fair officials have mandated drug testing for all exhibition livestock since 1995.[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (Canada) Baylor coach Dave Bliss was canned when he tried to paint Dennehy as a drug dealer. ... [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme7(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Have a safe and happy New Year! See you on the other side of tomorrow.... |
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- A court has finally issued a ruling against pop-up advertising. A Manhattan federal judge says that WhenU.com's pop-up ads for Vision Direct that appear when users visit the 1-800 Contacts website are likely to cause confusion between the two companies. The judge enjoined the company from delivering the pop-up ads. |
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- Wired thinks that based on the rate of new viruses appearing in 2003, the Internet is a very sick place. If you regularly read this blog or the newsletter, you know what it takes to protect yourself against these nasties. |
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- This story's just a bit old, but definitely worth mentioning. The New York Times is now offering its archives of articles from 1851 through 1995 online. And the cost ain't bad, either -- $2.99/article, unless you decide to buy in bulk, in which case the price drops. |
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- If you did, you were in good company. It was one of the most searched-for words of 2003. By looking at the top 10 list, I can tell that legal researchers didn't get much of a say in the results..... |
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- I'm with Bloomberg on this one. Shays is a wuss. Reuters has this report. |
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- Fitness expert Jim Karas offers tips for shaping up in 2004. |
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- Executive Chef Michael J. Pivoney offers Easy Appetizers for your New Year's Eve Bash |
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Nirvana (Dec 31 2003 13:33 GMT) - ...all in MP3 format. Check it out. |
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- Israel unveils a $60m plan to build homes for thousands on the Golan Heights plateau seized from Syria in 1967 — The Guardian Most of Israel's natural sources of water are far below acceptable levels, meaning that they are not merely in danger of damaging the ecosystems, but that there is a very real danger that their natural water sources... |
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- AEgo says... That's it--Gay's gotta start going "out" now. No offense to any of the gay folk, but sometimes, when you do anything for attention [sic], it's time for you to become uncool even faster. And, there's nothing wrong with being gay, there's just something wrong with making your sexual orientation "cool" to be. You should just be able to "be" you and not have to sweat it. |
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