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Slade is playing, the decorations are up for the 10th year in a row, and TCMI is online... it can mean only one thing: it's that magical time of year at radiac.net again!
Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Slade is playing, the decorations are up for the 10th year in a row, and TCMI is online... it can mean only one thing: it's that magical time of year at radiac.net again!
You know what to expect...
Top of my to-do list for this site is adding a link feed so I can avoid short entries like this one.
BoingBoing linked to an amusing video of the presidential debates...
Well, that's the longest break we've ever had, I believe. Nearly a month and a half?!
In my defence, I have been very busy - I won't bore you with details, but in the middle of it all, my desktop caught a virus, twice, and I got paranoid so wiped my network. I still haven't had a chance to finish restoring files, and haven't got round to correctly restoring my e-mail - I did it wrong the first time, so all the archives are incorrectly dated to the 23rd September 2008. Woo.
When rebuilding my machines, I ...
Today, our glorious leader Mr Brown announced measures to help people on low incomes who are struggling to pay their energy bills, and discounted insulation for the rest. That's nice.
However, I bring you an exclusive - my source inside the government has passed me this discarded early draft of his statement:
The taxpayer will pay for energy for the poor! What, you have a job? Already have insulation? Struggling to pay your rising mortgage, food bills and your own energy bills? Don't care - sell your house, downsize and give us the profit! You what, it's a market ...