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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Citizenship and the EU

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You know, I often find myself wondering about this. I've said before that as soon as I'm eligible I will apply for Canadian Citizen...
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Friday, 13 May 2011

Censored

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Blogger censors blogs. 3 Comments and an update missing from the last post. Sod you lot, I'm off to Wordpress . Update: So it was coc...
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Romequake! (Not)

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Just took this screengrab of the area surrounding Rome following the scare story that the current alignment of planets (Meaningless apart fr...
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Hi ho

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There are some days when the world has a definite "Oh, FFS!" air about it. Thoughts don't gel, arrangements are difficult, r...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011

When is a volunteer not.....

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What is a Volunteer'? I'd always thought it was someone who gives up some of their time to good causes instead of vegetating in fro...
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

The evil of PAF C23

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Back in the bad old days of slavery in the United States, there was a thing called the ' Underground railroad ' which spirited escap...
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Friday, 6 May 2011

For weekends, everywhere

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One from the very, very, early days of a mis-spent youth. Full volume. From one of the classic albums of all time .

Every screen grab tells a story

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Over 2 to one against. 'Nuff said.
Thursday, 5 May 2011

UK Referendum results

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Official UK referendum results will be found on this web page, here . The results should start coming up at 4pm UK time, that's 8am Pac...

Canadian Census 2011

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Have just completed my first ever online census for Canada. Not all that onerous, and about as basic as it gets. Essentially it boiled dow...
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Hate sites and the law

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The new Harper Government here in Canada may be about to make rather a large mistake. In their proposed new crime bill C-51 there is a cla...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

The Carbon Cycle

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Shamelessly nicked from the Australian ' No Carbon tax ' campaign site. Comes under the category of 'many a true word spoken in...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Alternative vote

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After the recent Canadian Federal General Election, I was surprised to find out that the Alternative Vote system of election has been tried ...
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Monday, 2 May 2011

Canada has a majority government

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Have been watching the Canadian federal election results come in. Regarding the screen grab taken at 22:10 PST 2nd May 2011 (02:10 ET 3rd ...
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Good grief

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Have been asked to send the odd expatriate piece to the brand new group blog ' Orphans of Liberty '. Frankly I'm surprised they...
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Sunday, 1 May 2011

A day of modestly good news...ah

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Having had the experiences with UK Social Services that I have, I'm heartened by the dropping of the planned Child database. Anything t...
Sunday, 24 April 2011

The last Royal Wedding

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Mrs S and I were discussing this particular topic today. The usual squishy smarmy media overkill, the hyped up 'threats' of a few p...
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Saturday, 23 April 2011

Maastricht and Lisbon

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A small penny dropped this afternoon. Perhaps it's just me being thick and getting the joke long after the punchline, but the thought o...
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