Whatever crossed my time on the day, usually general muttering and rebelliousness over shady pricing by big companies, but also grammar, humour (100 funny insurance quotes is popular), and more
1) I, Frankenstein Official Trailer #1 (2014) – Aaron Eckhart Movie HD 2) 300: Rise of an Empire – Official Trailer 1 [HD] 3) Captain America The Winter Soldier trailer UK — Official Marvel | HD 4) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer UK — OFFICIAL | HD 5) Transcendence Official Trailer #1 (2014) – Johnny […]
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WORM, the first digital world war, by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. Blurb The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million machines in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies and critical government networks – including the British Parliament and the French and German military
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Rather irked at the moment after one of DPD’s drivers had a major lapse of concentration. My wife’s monitor died so I ordered a new one. That was annoying in itself as it was a big and rather expensive Dell which, it turned out, has a flaw in that after 4 years – just outside
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The Chaos by Gerald Nolst Trenité, 1920. (Trenite also used the nom de plume Charivarius). The original had 146 lines and appeared in the appendix of his book ‘Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen’. What is said to be the most complete copy, as published by The English Spelling Society, has 274 lines. There are
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Forms of colorblindness Normal vision Trichromasy All three cones types are present and working normally Mildly colour blind Anomalous trichromasy A mild colour deficiency or weakness affecting 6.3% of men and 0.37% of women. One or more of the three cones light-sensitive pigments are not quite right, affecting the balance and brightness of colours: Protanomaly
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On this day, an intro This is just a brief introduction to Ackadia’s new feature, the ‘daily post’ (started in November 2013). Seems to me that most news and events sites and periodicals pay too much attention to the gloomy side of life, wars, disasters, so forth. If it’s your birthday ‘today’, do you really
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Quote of the day : I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! ~ Author Judy Blume, born this day. She is also quoted at saying, When I’m writing a book, you can’t think about
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Quote of the day : Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~ Thomas Edison, born on this day. He also pointed out: If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Picture of the
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