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Buying shares
Partly as a response to the potential bids for Cadbury (and the fact that cally_tmk had bought shares in them so at least she could say "No" to a takeover, however ineffectual that no might be) I've been looking into ways to buy shares.
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Stumbling into controversies
There could be something interesting to say about the whole US healthcare saga ... though I'm sure that others are covering it well elsewhere. I don't see a lot of meeting of minds so far in the blog comments I've seen - supporters of the NHS post in one place, detractors another (usually). Having had the UK decried on account of the NHS, the ( Read more... ) -
After 18 years and 267 days...
<181.15:35:00 DSS-63 BOT ( Read more... ) -
Low key lottery...
In case you thought that everything had to be high-tech these days, especially in government...
This was sent to me by one of my colleagues. It is for an entirely serious matter, see http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/rsls/ramadanstations09/. How else do you pick them?
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Thanks, and this should actually be fun. Well as fun as anything gets if you’re a manifest dweeb.
After a letter written by three US senators (including John McCain) requesting that NASA takes no further steps towards shuttle decommissioning [*], the feasibility of shuttle extension to 2015 is being looked at... because of politics. The dispute between Russia and Georgia makes it less likely that the US Congress will approve the waiver to the ( Read more... ) -
The waiting is over...
...I received my rejection email from ESA today, though they do point me in the direction of their other careers. It shouldn't come as any great surprise that in cutting down from 8000-odd applicants to 700-1000 (the figure quoted for the next stage) they have to adopt a fairly strict regime. It's a disappointment but I have the good fortune to ( Read more... ) -
Firing up the ancient technology (advisory: some geeky content)
We possess a venerable scanner, that I'm sure cost £200 when we bought it quite a number of years ago - it was bought somewhat at the last minute to scan photos for the first issue of Dark Times in 1996. I had not been going out with cally_tmk for very long back then ( Read more... ) -
Medicals (episode 2 ...)
Well, I went for the promised medical. Aside from the serious diagnostics, it seems that quite a number of things are tested less formally...
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Episode 1 of a sort...
... I had an eye test today - the first time since I had an over-the-top-thorough eye test in 1993 (when I needed one to confirm the state of my sight in case I subsequently ruined it with a big laser and sued). That test involved peripheral vision testing and retinal photography, and was at least in part an exercise for optometry students to ( Read more... ) -
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After a moment, it stopped walking into my wall, and turned to stare at me. - obviously if you get fond of your patch in Second Life, the robot menace may be a bit much,
There's a lot of stuff to say about game engines for exploring archaeology. And I really must write something about the "systems game" concept.
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