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The chance of your house being destroyed by a tornado and then that tornado reassembling your house is 0.0000001%.

So you need insurance.

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The shoe could be on the other foot.

This is from Australia. Sometimes my country is flawless, usually when it comes to poking fun. This will explain a lot about me.

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I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine time goes to voicemail.

What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

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You know who you are and what I mean. Take this as a lesson you sily people.

“Let this be a lesson to all the broken-hearted geeks out there. A 38-year-old Ohio man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he meant to install on the computer of a woman he’d had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at a children’s hospital.

Spyware was sent to the woman’s Yahoo e-mail address in the hope it would be used to monitor what his former girlfriend was doing on her PC. But instead, she opened the spyware on a computer in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery department.

The spyware sent more than 1,000 screen captures via e-mail, including details of medical procedures, diagnostic notes and other confidential information relating to 62 patients. The man will pay $33,000 to the hospital for damages and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”

Thanks to Slashdot for this.

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I have often felt like a square peg in a round hole. Sometimes that’s been a good thing, other times, not so much.

The thing that has always been clear to me, is not that I need to change my shape, or even find a square hole, it’s that I need to find a round space big enough to fit my pointy corners.

That’s why I live somewhere like London, and have such big hearted, smart, generous people as my friends and self chosen family.

Being a square peg in a round hole isn’t so bad, if you just have room to fit and freedom to move. If that’s the case, you both have space to be your own person, while still fitting together.

The soundtrack to this blog post is Beverley Knight – Square Peg

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I love this country so bloody much. Only here could a self proclaimed transvestite suggest running for office and it be no big deal.

New Zealand of course has a transsexual politician, and the US had George Bush, who was something else entirely. But here in the UK, with its long tradition of men dressing up as women, its good to see that the nations leadership may be come just that little bit more representative.

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Now the first thing I will say about this, is that I pretty much completely agree that the camera is the iPod lines current Achilles heel. Adding a camera to the Nano and not the Touch was just weird. Almost as weird as only putting a 3.2 megapixel camera in the iPhone.

The second thing to say is this is a brilliant piece of comedy, and there is a wry irony in the choice of spokes model – particularly given the final couple of lines.

However I am not exactly sure that Adolf is the right person to be spokes model for the collective weary befuddlement of the global Apple Fanboy communituy.

Watch anyway, its a laugh.

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Its been almost 178 years since Charles Darwin set sail on the Beagle for what was expected, and in fact was in most obvious ways, a fairly ordinary trip to the south seas. Unlike his ship mates who brought back the usual, like shell art and grass skirts, Darwin came back with a head full of so many ideas it took him years to write them down. The result of which was one of the most significant discoveries of all time – the theory of evolution.

Now, because people just cant get enough of either super cute dogs – or sailing ships, a bunch of British and Dutch scientists, journalists and artists are going to retrace Darwins’ steps. Which should be tricky, partially because the Dutch and British have nearly no common sense of humour (so there aint gonna be no laughs on that boat) and partially because its hard to follow steps on water.

Fortunately the trip  is only going to take them 8 months this time and the whole things is going to be broadcast on the internet via Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and Flick. Naturally.

Why do I feel lie this is going to be less of a voyage of scientific (re)discovery and more of a floating, multilingual big brother house. What ever it is, it should be fun to follow.

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I just opened my own blog on a computer running IE 6 and discovered that even the most basic, default template, gets screwed up by this elderly browser.

Basically its your own fault for using it, or working for an organisation that does. So you can either upgrade, deal, or look at the blog on your iPhone, where it works perfectly.

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A lingering sense of dissatisfaction and emptiness caused by prolonged exposure to things with little nutritional or edifying content: junk food, video games, twitter

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