"[Computer science] is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use."

E.W Dijksra.

What the actual fuck?
DNS servers? Plenty of others.
Email? Plenty of other providers
ISP? No.
Search? Yes, there are other search providers. You can configure you web browser to use different ones.

How is it hard not to use google?

Bush; least bad? I'll take ineffective over stupid any day. Kerry wouldn't have got hundreds of thousands of people killed.

Fuck you.

Didja not even read the fine summary? I can see your accident thing, kind of. But it's a half dozen risk factors, only cancer doesn't change.

You would expect diabetes to be higher in sedentary occupations, because Bob knows that a lot of office workers are fat bastards.

"Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. "

Fantastic argument there. I'm sure the Lancet will print your letter in full!

I've gone for 7W LED spotlights to replace the 50W GU10 halogen thingys. All good so far here; but check with one bulb for colour and dispersion angle though before you shell out for all the fixtures. I like mine whiter, but some people don't, and the spots are close enough together that beam angle doesn't matter too much here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Here in UK, our DoE-equivalent have computed on-shore wind as being close enough to coal - and we're running out of coal, so I'm guessing it will be marginally cheaper in few years.

Er, Tibet? Oh, wait. That's an internal matter NOW. Don't worry then!

aye; cheaper than the Iraq war though I think, and of slightly more utility.

we did put up a bridge and now charge the English £5.70 to get in. Welsh people travel free, all though we'll deny that if you raise subject.

to free our data. http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Discgate

No - they're looking for reasons not to believe it. First, it wasn't happening. Then we cycled through a whole bunch of variables (solar output, etc) which don't explain it. Then we had the "it's happened forever". Yes, but not this quickly. Most of these alternate hypotheses don't bear a couple minutes scrutiny. You're late to the party. The "controversy" happened in the mid to late 80s. The theory has only been gathering evidence since then, and nothing has really come along to disprove it. You say it's raining, but you're pissing down my back.

The Telegraph likes to bash Europeans at every opportunity.

We had a similar incident when some poor bloke sent his CV to foobar@barfoo.co,uk - note the comma instead of a full stop. Turns out "uk" expanded to our UK employees and the other part got discarded as undeliverable.

Lessons are I guess: don't send CVs from your work email, and don't have email aliases which are close to elements of email addresses.