Only a day or so late, but POP over to seemikedraw.com to see the mystery of the resurrection explained (scientifically)

My old hard drive had been making alarming clunking noises (more than is usual) and causing the system to hang, therefore I thought it best to replace the drive.

So after making sure the Time Machine backup was up to date, I replaced the HDD, and booted the computer with the OS X DVD. I was [...]

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Courtesy of xkcd.com the definitive guide to kilobytes and kilobits…

There’s been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalisation of each.

Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:

xkcd 394 – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

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Such chaos! The poor Mercedes driver cannot move his car. How will the UK cope. The car has barely a scratch on it either. Hardly newsworthy damage.

From: BBC NEWS | UK | UK braced for storms and flooding

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I made some spicy lentil soup yesterday, which turned out reasonably well, so I thought I’d post the recipe here for posterity. It was loosely based around this recipe for spicy red lentil soup, although adjusted to what I had available (including the lack of scales).

Makes a pot for about 6, and takes about [...]

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