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Politics
By herbert (Sat Sep 27, 2008 at 10:15:57 AM EST) oh my, god wot, the fuckbarbecue (all tags)
  • world improving ideas in the fields of pasta and politics
  • observations in the fields of computers and punctuation

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Diary
By herbert (Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 10:55:18 AM EST) science, questions, maps, books (all tags)
  • Science question
  • Literary cartography
  • Short book reviews

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Diary
By herbert (Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 11:04:32 PM EST) (all tags)

Today's rhetorical questions are:

  • Why are jeans so popular?
  • Why do people have very small suitcases on wheels?
  • Whatever happened to... the top N% of the web?

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Ranting
By herbert (Sat Nov 06, 2004 at 12:22:18 AM EST) (all tags)

Paint your parrot blue and grey.


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Print Story A question about railways.
Diary
By herbert (Thu Oct 28, 2004 at 01:08:17 AM EST) (all tags)

In the UK, most railways have two lines, one for trains going one way and one for trains going the other way.


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Books
By herbert (Tue Oct 12, 2004 at 08:50:41 PM EST) (all tags)

A discovery which should get me the Nobel Prize for Online Shopology.


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Print Story I want a clean timezone.
Diary
By herbert (Sun Oct 10, 2004 at 11:14:30 PM EST) (all tags)

Let's all move one hour on.

Hearing the annual bollocks about how we should stay on British Summer Time all year round is annoying me as usual. Thus this rare sally out of lurkitude-plus-occasional-snide-one-line-commentry into the shark-infested waters of Diary.


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Print Story It's too quiet in here
Boredom
By herbert (Sun May 30, 2004 at 11:37:11 PM EST) (all tags)
BOO!

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Print Story Ask HuSi: domain registration
Diary
By herbert (Mon Feb 16, 2004 at 12:13:21 AM EST) (all tags)

I have a .com and a .co.uk registered with EasySpace. However, it appears that they want to charge extra to allow me to actually use DNS to point these domains anywhere except at them. It seems to me that this is a basic fucking right of mine if I own a domain, so they can fuck off.


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Print Story Tragic hat loss
Diary
By herbert (Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 06:34:32 AM EST) (all tags)
I left my hat on the train this morning.  This is the second hat I have left on the train within the space of a month.  I take them off, put them on my lap or on the seat, and then forget about them when I get to where I'm going.

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Diary
By herbert (Tue Jan 06, 2004 at 05:08:51 AM EST) (all tags)
Knowing you - the citizenry of HuSi...

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