23 Jun
I know more than a few people who would turn purple - and probably explode - if they heard me say something like the title of this post and, I must confess, it would be a very funny thing to see at that.
The core idea of socialism, as I’ve heard it, is that the means […]
Posted in Political stuff by: Graham Dawson
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23 Jun
A response to some of the replied in this post on Gates of Vienna.
Lets be clear, polls are easilly manipulated to say anything you want. Even these polls that seem favourable to us, the ones that show europe becoming more sane, are probably the result of some manipulation at some level. I don’t trust polls any more than I trust the tax man…
Posted in Political stuff by: Graham Dawson
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21 Jun
Y’know, it’s not fun being poor. I was poor as a kid and didn’t particularly enjoy it, and neither did the rest of the family considering we spent most of our time living on beans on toast. It would appear that, right now, I’m out of money again, though fortunately I don’t have to resort […]
Posted in General Stuff by: Graham Dawson
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17 Jun
So, turns out that today, which started all of 44 minutes ago, is our first ever wedding anniversary. That’s a whole year of marriage… if you don’t count the previous 4 or 5 we spent getting to know each other. I’d say we’re set for quite a few more too.
So yes, a year ago today […]
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17 Jun
So, blogger decided that my blog was a “spam blog” and left me with a very, ahh, interesting and slightly rude message when I tried to make a post. I had hoped it would be because of the stuff I said about Islam, but to be hoenst I think I offended their sensibilities by saying […]
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11 Jun
I’m not in a happy mood right now. I have a project to complete by september. Not so bad, ecept I have to take almost the entire month of august out in order to go to my brother’s wedding in paraguay. In itself this is a good thing, as it means I get to visit […]
Posted in Uncategorized, General Stuff by: Graham Dawson
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04 Jun
I’ve been experimenting with gnome recently. As a hardened KDE vet (as in, I’ve had to spend a lot of time vetting problems in my poor KDE-based version of gentoo linux) I have to say I was pleasantly surprised when I finally got it working on my laptop. Everything just worked.
Of course everything just works […]
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