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Don’t you just love the process of learning to drive?

I am trying to find out where theory tests may be taken in my locality. unfortunately, the links to allow me to do so are absolutely useless. I mean, why do I need a password?

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Apparently you can only give blood every 16 weeks. Ooops. Apparently their website is not reliable, when it tells you you can give blood it might not be telling the truth. Still apparently you can still donate if they specially let you whihc they did. Whihc was nice.

A perk of going to donate in a building, and not the back of a wobbly van is that you get TEA. A cup of TEA. the excitement.

I guess they won’t be impressed when i decide to donate nearer to work next time. Hey Ho. But the plan is to now get into a regular routine, and dontate three times a year, afterall, it doesnt cost me anything.

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It seems there are still a number of industial systems that do not like Internet Explorer 7. And today I discovered it is possible to get IE8…. oh dear…

Its possible to go back in time and run IE7 as a Virtual Machine from Microsoft however, I am currently giving it a try….

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Wow.

How cool would it be to own one of these?

I mean, just to have it an use it because it was a mechanical calculator.

Still, you wouldn’t want to take it apart.

Yes, I found this on jwz

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A funny video.

Maybe I should post this to a “Fun Wall” or something.

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Had a little trouble with the VW Polo today. The not-starting-in-hot-weather thing reared its head again. I could not hear any clicking coming from the engine area when turning the ignition to “start” so deduce that there is a problem with the starter solenoid. Giving it a tap with a screwdriver allows it to start, so i guess the solenoid has gone.

Will have to see how much it is to replace it tomorrow…. Lets see what the difference between a VW dealer, and JayRay is.

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Hmm, The staple Door-bell-ringer used to be art students. This weekend I have had 2 calls from people offering me watch tower or bible study. I’m polite, but as soon as their purpose is apparent, its a swift not interested, good bye….

Is it the season for them, and why have I had two visits? I thought they were more organised than this, or maybe there are two groups doing the same thing in quick succession.

Thinking of plants growing (my mind kind of was, but it wasn’t actually producing anything or literary merit, its time to tidy up a little from yesterdays gate moving. I had previously, Bush-like announced that the garden was finished, and then yesterday with help from my dad, we moved the back gate to the far end of the passage.

But it was finished, you see moving the gate is just a modification….

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Ok, so typing UNIT into google, was obviously going to help me find the UNIT Website.

Even vicki thought the publications list was illuminating

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Ok, So i shouldn’t have been using an RSS reader to view dilbert. But recently I realised it had broken. I actually went to the dilbert site today to catch up, and was horrified. Amusing as it is to see a site where the first comment under each posting is about how bad the site was….

So, if you want to see dilbert, then I suggest the fast interface to dilbert. I mean, if they stuck an advert at the bottom of each page, it really wouldn’t be a problem, but the main site is a flash and slow loading nightmare.

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Some people on the web were surprised that amongst the many things a Police Force might carry out a risk assesment of, was that of a number of their employees winning the lottery.

I cannot see how people would be surprised about this. It is not unusual for groups of people who work together to have some kind of lottery syndicate, and it is not unheard of for these people to win the jackpot. This then is something that could possibly happen.

Compare this to all the other risks that may be considered, fire, flood, terrorists, outbreak of avian pandemic flue…. and it looks like (comparatively speaking) there is actually a high chance of the lottery win scenario occurring.

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