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Marcion (876801)

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Low-energy bulbs full of mercury

Saturday January 05, @02:05PM
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So the Beeb reports that Low-energy light-bulbs are full of toxic mercury dust that can get lodged into my brain (as if it wasn't full enough of chemicals as it is).

Typical, I recently changed all the bulbs in my house from cheap normal bulbs to these expensive ones, saving the planet and all that. So what now? Go back to the old ones? LCDs? Candles? Sit in the dark?

Comic: New Zealand schools adopting NeoOffice

Wednesday May 30 2007, @06:49AM
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My attempt at a comic is based on the Slashdot story that New Zealand schools are adopting NeoOffice, the more native port of OpenOffice to Mac OS X:

Top 10 Most Influential Linux Games

Thursday April 12 2007, @10:00PM
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So I remembered every one of the Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games. Being in a rather nostalgic mood after that, I decided to write out my opinion of the Top 10 Most Influential Linux games. Check it out, then let me know what you would add/remove.

All these moderator points

Thursday April 12 2007, @04:54PM
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I have had trouble in the past using up my moderator points, and so tended to just ignore them. Threads I am interested in I comment, making myself ineligible, while threads I am not interested in I ignore. Now I am going for the use them all up on one thread strategy. Much more satisfying to let them all go in one frenzy.

These posts do not seem to have years on. So this now is 2007.

Welcome to my /. Journal

Monday April 25 2005, @10:59AM
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10 REM program
20 PRINT "Hello World!"
30 END