Author: malliemcg
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Cahors – Chateau Quattre – 1996
Like the last french wine, I have no idea of the variety. This one is not what I was expecting – for starters the cork was none to happy with life, but did not seem to impact the wine negatively, but a bigger surprise than that was the level of fruityness, and boldness – must…
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les Granges des Papes – Cotes Du Rhone – 2003
This French jobbie is a subtle but very nice drop of Red. I highly reccommend it!
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Hi-Res Colour Pictures from the 1930s and 40s
In the spirit of a previous digg’d post of London in 1949, here are some pics from the Library of Congress of America in the 30s and 40s. Gives you nostalgia about a period way before most (dare I say, ALL?) of us were born… I have to admit I find the past interesting and…
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Two cancers in the animal kingdom may show that cancers can be transmitted
Two cancers – one found in dogs that dates as far back as 2500 years ago, and a newer (50 years) found in the Tasmanian Devil show that there may be some forms of cancer that are transmissible between hosts. The Tassie devil cancer is not a great parasite as it seems to kill its…
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Simple Popup Images WordPress Plugin
The Simple Popup Images plugin allows you to add pop-up images to your WordPress blog. You put a thumbnail image in your post; if a user clicks on it, a larger version appears in a separate window. While I typically despise pop-ups of every sort, I prefer them for pictures, as it allows me to…
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Husband removes rivals penis
A man caught his estranged wife in bed with her lover, stabbed him to death last night and cut off his penis, a Sydney court heard. Keeps things tidy by placing the removed appendage in wife’s underwear drawer. — As nasty as it sounds I think I can understand how someone might feel to come…
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Site Status Update
Recent Stability Wobbles, As some of you may have noticed we have been having a few issues. I had hoped the mac mini suffering catastrophic failure mid June would go unnoticed, we are currently running at a temporary location until we are able to have this machine replaced. Forutunatly backups worked and little data was…
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CHEATSHEETS & REFERENCE
CHEATSHEETS & REFERENCE A decent link site that contains handy links to various cheatsheets and references for many different languages, handy when you are migrating between languages etal. M
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Donald Knuth, Volumn 4
Donald Knuth, Volumn 4 Some books written by Donald Knuth – he’s some dude who had something to do with programming and computational maths. To be honest I’ll probably never read them, but one day I’d like to! M
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Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants
Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants Some dude who used to work at Amazon ranting about many things technological – programming etal. Well worth reading for any tech geek!