Who counts the votes?

Posted on Thu 30 October 2003 in general

The last set of elections we had in the UK we started experimenting with
alternative forms of voting from the traditional visit the polling
station and put a cross on the paper ballot. One experiment they ran
where I live is postal voting. And it worked, turnout in my ward …

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Silliness and other such stuff....

Posted on Thu 23 October 2003 in general

What Irrational Number Are You?

You are √2

You are in good company, many other square roots are also irrational numbers. Just by being a square root you have been branded a radical. You are considered very attractive, especially by Europeans (at least on paper.) You fear that a relationship …


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The urge to link...

Posted on Thu 16 October 2003 in general

The SCO group seem to of been quite quiet of late, save href=http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5092081.html>backing down on
their invoice threat. Although their stock price is still (currently) quite
healthy some of their big investors have been href=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542 …

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Who's hardware is it anyway?

Posted on Tue 14 October 2003 in general

I'm sure everyone who runs Windows has read and understood the href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html>EULA (or
End User License Agreement) that came with it. However a story caught
my eye href=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39116400,00.htm …

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The Sistene chapel has nothing on Artex :-)

Posted on Wed 08 October 2003 in general

Well back from another relaxing weekend visiting friends in the
country. Its weekends like that that make me wonder why I live in
Manchester given I'm a country boy at heart. I think it comes down to
broadband availability......and of course all the friends I have up here :-)
A …

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