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  Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
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  Locale ID: 6153
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  BCP4: 00000000
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Files that help describe the problem:
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Thirty six weeks without an entry and some of the earlier entries now seem so remote as to have being written by someone else; either it's time to terminate the account or use it for something else.
As I clearly do not have the available time to use the account to facilitate a blog - or at least one of any consistency or quality - the idea of using ( Read more... )

The European liberal left's teary-eyed love-in with the Obama administration may need some emotional adjustment.
Sure, after the Bush regime, Obama did seem - and to a point continues to seem - like a breath of fresh air.
At this juncture however, rhetoric is not equating with policy and with the sound of the dizzy, post-election fanfare fading into ( Read more... )

After starring in 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here', and doing the narration for a hilariously bad, Boys-Own documentary called 'Bugs' for Murdochvision, John Lydon carries about as much cultural weight as Kerry Katona.
Hard to now recall that he was once co-conspirator in the avant-pop 'organisation' of Pil . I know this song is as much a ( Read more... )

The U.S. self-appointed role as a world policeman was always given a degree of public relations saleability by it's particular condemnation of torture ( Read more... )

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/04/law-genetics

A welcome pro-libertarian decision by the European Court Of Human Rights, the notion of keeping innocent people's DNA records on file dovetails disturbingly in with the British government's introduction of National Identity cards.
The inference of all this is that under Gordon Brown's government ( Read more... )

Most contemporary Hollywood films are completely unwatchable; behind some little embellishments and other frou-frou most boil down to being predictable, anti-intellectual, ambiguity-free moral fables of good versus evil - or in other words fairytales ( Read more... )

Last Saturday we went for a drive/hike in the Slieve Bloom mountains about fifteen miles from where I live,
here are some pictures I took:


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The delphiniums which I grew from seed in the late Spring of 2007 and managed to bring through the winter have begun to bloom.


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