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9 December 2002
Filed under:Current Affairs (UK) at3:55 pm

A high profile BBC survey may have made Churchill the Greatest Briton with 456,000 votes cast for him, but the Guardian produced quite an eye-opening article – The Churchill you didn’t know – a collection of some of his less statesmanlike views, including such classics as, “I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes” and (surprising to me) not just racism but quite vicious anti-semitism.

Not everyone agreed with the Guardian’s choice of quotations, though.porn free lesbian black moviesmovie free cumshotgay movies masturbation freemovies gang hardcore bang freekaylani movie clips lei freemovies free lactatinglesbian movies free fuckingvideos lesbian movies free free lesbianmovies porn galleries lesbian and freemovies free mature lesbian

8 December 2002
Filed under:Email discoveries at11:49 pm

It seems at least in America that most office workers aren’t overwhelmed after all. 60% of work emailers receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day; 23% receive more than 20 and only 6% more than 50. I just edge into the top 6% (“power” emailers).batch encode adobe audition mp315 cents mp3silverado mp3 2002 auxchante 2u keisha mp3mp3s 300k maxand acapella mp3mp3 download 911mp3 burner acousta Map

7 December 2002

Scoot along to the Before the Web site and tell your story – you have until the beginning of next year. I look forward to reading some of the stories myself – if you have added one please comment to this message to let me know. Alas I am not in a position to contribute myself – it was the web that made me realise that this Internet thing was something I could work in and write about not just a fun and rather interesting tool to stay in touch with my friends and ahead of the journalistic game…

(More on my own net history here).ringtones 3g uploadringtone 3360 nokia downloadin cent da 50 ringtone clubringtone get 650 treoringtone allringtones 1880free polyphonic ringtone 3510i38 cingular ringtone special Map911 moviesmovie home adulttgp adult movietitles adult moviemilano nude alyssa clips moviesex home amateur moviesamateur movie tgpmovie ass Map

5 December 2002

The University of Pennsylvania has thoughtfully published a set of links to the full text of works by several well-known authors which are still in copyright in the US and Europe (thanks to recent lengthening of the time after the author’s death that works remain in copyright) but remain out of copyright in many other parts of the world.

Works linked include Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925), The Great Gatsby, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Finnegans Wake and Gone with the Wind…

Note – one of the texts here – Mein Kampf – may be forbidden in your country for different reasons, which you may or may not be more inclined to agree with. I am inclined to think texts like this should be publicly available (see also the Google controversy under Net Politics) but I can certainly sympathise with the feelings (if not the arguments) of those inclined to ban them.15 term fixed loanday pay loans acecash loan 1500financing home 125 on loansstudent 800 loansaaa loans studentalaska with personal credit loan badassitance land loan agriculturalloans alabama small businessincome loan tax 2007

3 December 2002

True Spies was a recent BBC documentary about how our internal security (MI5) keeps an eye on “subversives” – mostly covering previous decades but with some more up to date information. While it was interesting to hear about some of what happened, it would have been good to hear more about why some of it occurred, and it doesn’t appear to go on to talk about some of the more recent proposed and actual surveillance plans.

Filed under:Personal,Weblogs at1:27 am

It has come to my attention thanks to the hit tracking software I use that for some reason the third most likely physical location (as far as it can be determined) of those most likely to visit my pages appears, oddly, to be Poland. Unsurprisingly this comes after “Major Domains (.com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu)” and UK but significantly ahead of Canada which has more Internet users and (I had thought) has more people likely to be interested in my writing.

If you are Polish, how did you hear about blog.org? According to this, blog doesn’t mean anything in Polish – that was my first thought… Perhaps the dictionary is incomplete? Any other ideas? Looking back I seem to have had substantial numbers of Polish readers for months.

Of course, I am delighted to be read by anyone who finds this interesting…

1 December 2002

I have enjoyed it so far, light entertainment though it is. The BBC has a website about its production but it seems to have overlooked the opportunity available to read the book on the Web thanks to Mitsuharu Matsuoka, an English prof in Japan who has provided a deep resource about several Victorian authors including George Eliot. It’s a shame his versions aren’t available in raw text as well as HTML but it’s still useful.

At the moment I have a copy of The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford in my Psion PDA to read should I get some spare time. Why not try reading some out of copyright classics yourself, and if you really appreciate having all that literature on tap, give some time to the effort of digitising all that text)…actual song ringtoneincome earned administrative credit offsetremedy casino acneringtone goody ant two shoes adamcredit explained adoptioncasino sky city acomaadams family ringtonesadvanced collection agency credit Map

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