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Helpline Comment (34893) (Dec 29 2005 22:59 GMT) - For Christmas I knocked my main computer off my desk and it hit the floor so hard it twisted the whole case and shattered my CD burner, arghh!! Anyway, with the ever evolving format of the web and how it's more difficult each year to surf the web with an old machine - not because it's slow but because the html content is not able to be interpereted properly by the old versions of web browsers- what ways are people using to work around this problem? The best thing I've tried was Arachne on a DOS machine. I've never found an old browser for Win3.1 that didn't crash constantly on all this java and flash content. |
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Pagan scouting group takes root (Dec 29 2005 22:59 GMT) - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA But this is not their parents' Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts - immediately evident when these kids gather around a coffee table and light candles in solemn tribute to earth, water, fire and air. No, this is the SpiralScouts - the pagan version of learning outdoor skills and earning badges. |
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Audit Teams to Monitor Relief Money (Dec 29 2005 22:58 GMT) - Audit Teams to Monitor Relief MoneyThe Department of Homeland Security is sending teams of investigators and auditors to the Gulf Coast to monitor federal money pouring into the region for Hurricane Katrina relief.Renae Merle Pentagon Work ReformsAS PROMISED, the Defense Department has followed the Department of Homeland Security in proposing new rules on promotion [...] |
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A small interaction with the old media (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - Almost two years ago, David Carr posted a piece on this blog about statues in Trafalgar Square. In the comments, I made a brief observation that the person I would commemorate with a statue there was mathematician Alan Turing, who is rather inadequately commemorated given that his achievements were that he won the second world war and invented the computer. (Yes I am exaggerating, but not truthfully by all that much). Yesterday, I received a... |
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Samizdata quote of the day (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - Now that they have a fairly sensible and popular sceptic policy on Europe, the Conservatives react with wounded surprise when polls say that the public still do not respect them on the subject. But the reason is very simple: again and again, their actions have belied their words. - Charles Moore... |
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Welcome to Vodkapundit the Second! (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - Wonderful news. Stephen Green, creator of the splendid Vodkapundit blog, and his wife Melissa, have had a baby son. I had the great pleasure of meeting Stephen at one of Perry de Havilland's summer parties last year and can testify to what a nice fellow he is. Congratulations to the Green household. It would be only right to hoist a fine vodka martini to little Preston Davis Green.... |
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David Cameron's interesting start (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - David Cameron, newly elected leader of the Tories, has got off to a wonderful start, as I am sure readers will agree. He has signed up Sir Bob "give us yer fokkin' money" Geldof to advise on world poverty; Zak Goldsmith, the environmentalist, has been also approached to advise on how to save the planet, and in a recent masterstroke, Oliver Letwin, a Tory MP, opined that the Tories should be concerned with redistributing wealth.... |
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More holidays in hell for Michael Totten (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - Michael Totten seems to be acquiring a taste for visiting totalitarian hellholes. This time he is wanding around the socialist paradise of Libya. As usual he paints an interesting picture.... |
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Moralistic insanity on prostitution (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - As someone who follows such things I had expected the latest Home Office consultation exercise to go according to the standard pattern, thus: Home Office makes suggestions for changes in public policy... ...'evidence' is taken from interested parties including police in search of promotion, contractors in search of contracts, and researchers seeking posts on the new quango to be created... Home Office considers, announces its plans have 'general support', ticks box marked 'public consulted' and... |
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Oldsmobile review - Oldsmobile Reviews - Research Oldsmobile Cars and Reviews (Dec 29 2005 22:57 GMT) - Oldsmobile Reviews - Research Oldsmobile Cars and Reviews Oldsmobile Reviews - Research Oldsmobile Cars and Reviews. Oldsmobile Cars For Sale 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 Very nice CA car, factory air, $14995 [Wisconsin] 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Pace Car Parade track car #121, Y74 code. Search for Oldsmobile Car Dealers in Your [...] |
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