libertus

“No love, they only blow hot air.”

Yay! Snow in Sheffield again. Piccies just as soon as my camera batteries charge. Oh dear, my camera has failed doesn’t seem to like the cold! Anyways, a couple of pics from out front and back.
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Listening to a call-in on C-SPAN on BBC Parliament, about Hilary Clinton running for U.S. President^*. A caller…

I have no problem with her being a woman.
I have no problem with her, period.

“Ooooohhhhh….”, he cringed during the pause, knowing what was coming. “That’s full stop!”

Now that Zeitgeist has been released on WPPlugins.org, its page here has been set aside for the release manual and discussion. This post contains the contents and comments from the pre-release page.

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Is the internet changing the way we communicate? Evidence from the #xml IRC channel on freenode.

[10:19] <waloo>

<baby firstname=”Swann” lastname=”Bonhomme” gender=”M” weight=”3960g” father=”Stéphane” mother=”Maria” date=”1/09/2006″ hour=”7:04 am”/>

[10:35] <Libertus>

<congratulations/>

[10:38] <atsugnam>

<xsl:if test=”//user[@nick=’waloo’]/*[last()]”><say>oooh isn’t he cute….</say></xsl:if>

[10:42] <Libertus>

May his XPaths in life produce bountiful node-sets

<span xml:lang=”zh” lang=”zh”>中文</span>

Me too, mate

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A thought inspired by this message on the wp-hackers mailing list by Mike Purvis, and The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, a few chapters of which I read recently for the first time. Lesson 9 sprang to mind. Then this did. An old defeat.

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King Henry VIII would have loved the iPod. Some speculate Henry would have gone so far as to have had a custom iPod codpiece made to hold his. There is little speculation as to what Henry’s favourite tunes would have been.

King Henry VIII’s Top 10

• 10. The First Cut Is The Deepest
• 9. I Will Survive
• 8. 50 Ways To Behead Your Lover
• 7. I Go To Axtremes
• 6. Lay Your Head In My Arms
• 5. Roll With It
• 4. Lazy Head
• 3. It’s So Funny, How We Don’t Talk Anymore
• 2. I Fought The Pope And The Pope Won

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It’s not an embarrassment to brush up on your diving skills if you’ve been out of the water for a while. It is an embarrassment when your once well-honed demonstration skills devolve to n00b.

A video hides a lot of swearing…

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Turing Test 1: Are you a computer?
Turing Test 2: No. Are you?
Turing Test 1: No.

This picture may tell a thousand words where The Google AdSense Team will utter not a one. So far I’ve had no response from a human concerning my lost revenue from valid clicks.

The irony may be, I found The AdSense Insider by clicking through a Google ad on here!

See also: Sellout posted 1^st November 2005