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Apparently I am a social (66% permissive) and an economist (23% permissive) liberal and I also exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness..
Looking at the people in the same categories as I (Gandi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bono (!), Hilary Clinton, Robert Redford!) and at the people not in my […]

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Originally uploaded by Arnd Jan.

I think that picture says perfection. Today, we got our new coffee machine, a Gaggia TS, semi-industrial machine. It took me a little while, but I got it.
Thats the most important thing. Now we don’t have to drink horrible coffee. Makes […]

I was uploading a bunch of photos this morning and when I tried to organize them, I got the above error message, with:
“ERROR: We were unable to load your user information. The error was “100 Invalid API Key (Key has expired)”. Please go to the Flickr bugs forum to report this error.”
On looking around […]

While trying to come up with a name for our new Intranet URL, I came across a glossary of words used in William Gibson novels, in particular Neuromancer.
My favourite from this particular glossary was Ninsei
Ninsei:
Heart of Night City, Tokyo. ¶
Followed closely by “Night City”
Night City:
Old area between Port and City of Tokyo. Outlaw city, playground […]

It is amazing how human tragedy goes along without being perceived. The story behind Ramones band is stunning, and the documentary End of the century presents it sincerely and without pretentions. 108 minutes well spent.

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Originally uploaded by twistedtigger.

This is a nice photo of a coffee plunger arm and the strainer inside the coffee pot.
Someone on flickr posted it.
nice

You know, I never wanted a little cube to call my own, before I had to work in an open plan office with no divisions between people and departments.
Its not that collegues aren’t nice, they are…really…cool. It’s more that if I hear another sales related call..I think I will go mad. Thats why I […]

If you buy a ticket to Palma de Mallorca for a weekend in January, of course you don’t expect it to be hot, but you kinda hope for some warm breeze raising the temperature above Dublin’s current 4 degrees. Ja!! That’s what we are going to get:
http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2005/01/temporal/01b.html
http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2005/01/temporal/01c.html

As we would say in Spain: CAGONTO!