Month: February 2008

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Guidance

How To Leave Pipex: Part 5

The refund did eventually materialise, and it only took five weeks. It felt like longer, but I suppose that’s because I live in an ideal world where such a simple task (type in an account ID, verify that you owe them money, click a button to create a transaction of the specified amount) should take five minutes at most.

Maybe they read this website.

*Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.*

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  • “So the labels […] have to be nice to the artists, as, these days, musicians don’t necessarily have to sign to a major label – to any label – in order to have a career.”
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Gardening Photos

Jade plant

Jade plant

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  • “You’ve never seen monkeys more smug and satisfied. They scarcely moved at all from the sides of the trail. There wasn’t a hunter or a gatherer among them. They sat and were fed and ate with the indolent decadence of royalty.”
  • “Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks a day have an 85% higher risk of gout compared with those who drink less than one a month, a study suggests.”
  • Unlike most other countries who have “discovered oil”, Norway have been careful to keep their fingers in lots of other pies so that they won’t go into recession when the oil dries up. Smart move.
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  • A Linux Gmail notifier that has features missing in gmail-notify. You might need to use the latest version from SVN.