The Blood is The Life 06-11-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Help some budding philosophers out! - Blog - The F-Word
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• Police dog Janus looking forward to retirement
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• Crappy Computers - the logic we use is backwards
  On why "entry level" machines are a problem
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• Unions Together | Not For Sale
  Even though this is a transparently LAbour page, I agree with it
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• Half of Britons unaware of free alternatives to debt advice | Metro.co.uk
  Of course, cutbacks in CAB funding make this worse...
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• Ask police for help? I wouldn't bother, Met officers tell poll
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• Atos misled the government in securing its disability assessment contract
  Hands up anyone who is surprised?
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• The Astonishingly Non-Nonsensical Plot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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• Atos killed my dad, says boy 13 - Daily Record
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• Doctor 'shocked' by benefits system - Yahoo! Lifestyle UK
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• Obituary: John Gray
  RIP John. Thanks for the times you featured me in Star at the Bar. I shall be raising a glass to you next time I'm in the pub.
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• Comment: A Mitt Romney presidential win would be a disaster for LGBT Americans - PinkNews.co.uk
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• Factcheck: How many families are claiming £100,000 per year in housing benefit? | Full Fact
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• Proposals to make businesses address the cause of the consumer’s complaint
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• Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
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• Factcheck: How many workers earn less than the living wage? | Full Fact
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• David Cameron orders investigation into claims a paedophile ring - said to include a former prominent Conservative MP - operated in North Wales for more than a decade - Crime - UK - The Independent
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• Government 'powerless' to stop large multi-national companies like Starbucks and Google paying almost no tax on UK profits - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
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• I’m no bunny girl, says blogger Newsnight chose to talk on tax - London - News - London Evening Standard
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• CAT BOUNCE!
  Oh dear...
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• How Lord Prescott paved the way for private street patrols
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• Dungeon Keeper™ for download $2.39 - GOG.com
  My favourite game EVER now available to work on modern machines.
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Comments

[burkesworks]

If it were not for John Gray and the Macintosh SE-30s he used to keep in the old Pubspeak office when it was run out of the upstairs room of the Barge, before it was taken over by the Courier group, I doubt very much if I'd have embraced everything to do with computing the way I have over the last 20-plus years. It was there that I picked up how to use Quark from a splendidly-named non-cricketing old cove called Len Hutton who used to drink in the Clifton in Brighouse. RIP John.

[miss_s_b]

* hug *

In which case he was important to me in more ways than I knew about.