Since it is now officially weekend (woo-hoo!), today’s excitement will be totally silly.
Item A: The Hasselhoffian Recursion!
Item B: New Windows Features!
By the way, have you considered how many good English words the computer business has ruined for us? No longer can you say “she has nice features” without it sounding vulgar to some degree. No [...]
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Weekend at last!
Various tidbits..
I’m still having trouble getting my laptop on the internet, so I can’t post pictures from yesterday’s big Manchester football game (notice the supremely silly headline). It was freezing cold, but the stadium and the game was suitably impressive.
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oh, since it is Valentine’s Day today, I suppose I should treat all of you to a [...]
The meaning of life?
While I was in Spain this summer, I more or less accidentally stumbled upon the bargain of a lifetime:
Interestingly enough, the receipt is from the “Torre de la Calahorra” – a museum in Córdoba dedicated to the Arabic cultural heritage in southern Spain. Did you know, that around the year 1100 AD, Córdoba was one [...]
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