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Today has been an aggravating lesson in fixing perl on inadequate servers. The company has their website on a Windows server. The windows server supposedly has an “up to date” version of perl. But, for some strange reason that doesn’t include File::Find. From what information I have been able to gather, it’s supposed to be [...]

In the midst of the NHS furore, spending millions willy nilly on god knows what, top doctors saying the government is wasting money, and in this area, hospitals shutting down Emergency wards, nurses are now being encouraged to apply to nursing jobs in Australia. Apparently they are very short on nurses there, and we have [...]

Want to see a bit of fantastic bit of art? And all done with a finger and lots of dust… There are ten dust art pictures there, all done by Scott Wade in the rear window of his Mini Cooper (good car there Scott!).
Quite talented, I’d say

Cos you never know when a jar of pennies can save your life!
A campaigner against drug dealers in her neighbourhood had a penny jar, Brenda Scott, president of the Ebbets Field Houses Tenants Organization in Brooklyn, heard a smash on Saturday night and found the bullet hole in her front door.
The bullet lodged itself inside [...]

So I won’t talk about one thing, just a few things I’ve found on my browsing tonight. I spent all day on my feet (working, mind you) and my back hurts, I could use a good masseuse. I sat down on my couch, had some stew, watched some footie, drank some gin and tonic and [...]

Today was one of those days full of football. Not that that’s anything new, given the World Cup is on. But still, England vs Ecuador, we won. Of course. Not a bad goal from Beckham, not sure why every commentator suddenly forgets he hasn’t scored one from a free kick in three years, but still [...]

Although I’m of the opinion that violence should be suitably rewarded with time in prison or a death sentence for killers, I’m not quite sure I would go as far as the Chinese. They have recently sentenced someone to death for tattooing his girlfriend’s legs.
Now, that being said, when you learn what Zhou Jingzhi did, [...]

How can this be? Poor little Piglet has gotten Winnie the Pooh banned in Turkey? (I am reminded of the recent “Rome” series, where Cleopatra calls her slave “piglet”)
What is the world coming to, poor little Piglet labelled a “notorious character”…

Given that I, and most people I know, work on the weekdays, the only real day I have to do anything in Saturday. Now, I get off work on Friday at 3pm, so I have a little time then, to do banking for example, or to get some food shopping in.
There has been a poll [...]

Poor old Saddam, he STILL can’t do what he says he’ll do.
Talk about making a real hash of things eh? Saying he’ll go on a hunger strike, which lasts all of one meal. LOL. Must be that the food in that prison is THAT good, or perhaps he’ll try to survive on nothing but Doritos.