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Smashie and Nicey

Ok, prompted by Leo and Owen, the girls in rank order:

In reverse order, Smashie and Nicey/Alan Freeman style…

5. Annie - she felt nauseous when we stopped.
4. Laura Q - reasonable, but too much faffing about!
3. Edie - Plenty of experience, but not the best… maybe it was the flip-flops.
2. Caroline FH - very good, she’s had lots of experience!
1. Eleanor - a natural, with a vice-like grip between her thighs that inspires confidence.

If only you can work out what it’s a rank order of

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If you get a segfault when trying to start vmware on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) you can fix the problem by moving /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary to somewhere else (binary.old) will do.

The included 64 bit binaries cause vmware to segfault when starting up.

Good luck!

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Today I started to try and get autofs and sshfs to play nicely with each other. Sadly, because of the way both autofs and ssh works, it’s not easy to do.

Then along came afuse, which solved the exact problem I had. Now I can do;

cd ssh/some.other.host

and I get to the root directory of another machine. Magic!

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Mainly for the focus of the BBC and Londoners, but here’s how the UK and Ireland are REALLY split up…

NOTE

Birmingham is NOT in the North, it’s Midlands.
Likewise, Watford, is NOT the North.
Cambridge ISN’T in the North either.
“The South” is a relatively small area compared to the rest of the UK, or even just compared to the rest of England, so it’s really nice of us to hear so much about it when you have a few flakes of snow and manage this (courtesy of The Register).

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Can’t compete? Why not blame the foreigners?

Grr.

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From the SMH article:

“If I were to be the CEO of Google or the founders of Google I would be very [displeased] that the best search engine in the world continues to provide as a first link, Wikipedia,” he said.”Is this the best they can do? Is this the best that [their] algorithm can do?”

I can’t think of an occasion where Google has returned a Wikipedia entry for a query and that Wikipedia entry hasn’t been totally relevant and detailed.

Besides, the contest for detail, freshness, accessibility and usability Wikipedia wins hands down; compare the Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia articles on Alcohol. EB weighs in at roughly 500 words, WP at roughly 3500. Another interesting comparison: the EB article about Wikipedia weighs in at roughly 900 words, the WP article about Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7600 words.

How many people aware of the “state of the art” can readily contribute to EB? Not many. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. Not that Wikipedia doesn’t have it’s faults, of course. On the other hand EB isn’t always correct either.

Oh yeah - and to get proper access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, you have to pay fifty quid a year. No thanks.

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OK. Another new theme. Mainly because I am running the Subversion release of Wordpress and it looks my old theme doesn’t work yet.

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I found this great grammatical double-whammy whilst finding an air filter.

I’ll be sure to look for the Witch under my driver’s chair when I get home tonight

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I’m a rockstar! Also available from all good digital music outlets.

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