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It Makes Me Sick

Fri, 18 Jul 2008, 2:07 pm — Robert

One of the few things in life which really annoys me is people getting assaulted (physically or verbally) simply for doing their job. It goes a stage further to making me feel sick when the people concerned are working with the emergency services, when their job is about our safety.

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Warning: Do not look into LASER with remaining good eye!

Mon, 14 Jul 2008, 2:54 pm — Robert

I came across this story today about a group of Russian ravers losing part of their eye sight due to LASERS and it reminded me of the often quoted sign from a university LASER lab (see title).

It appears that what happened was the organisers decided to use some outdoor LASERS inside a big tent, oops.

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Doh

Mon, 14 Jul 2008, 2:50 pm — Robert

So some crackers have managed to take over an email address shown in the Simpsons. (Read the Register's take on it here). So a few years ago the folks behind the Simpsons shows Homer's email address (Chunkylover53@aol.com), smartly the writers actually registered this screenname to stop any crackers from exploiting it.

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Evolution & Americans

Tue, 1 Jul 2008, 9:13 pm — Robert

As it's 150 years since Charles Darwin published his book ("The Origin of Species ...") I thought I'd share this with you.

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Scared Of & For Our Kids

Thu, 26 Jun 2008, 4:19 pm — Robert

Why is it that as a nation we are both scared of our kids and scared for them? Are they simply behaving to the standards that the media has set for them?