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Entries from April 2008
Millau viaduct, Lucy?
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments
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Project planning doesn’t work
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments
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too many foreigners
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Eating Pizza and drinking beer.
Tonight I went with a colleague to eat pizza and drink beer in “The Tree” in Sanlitun. I don’t do this as a rule, but it was a pleasant change. Really authentic Pizza, wood fired oven, everything. But I found it hard to attune myself to a place where you ordered [...]
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Normal for Beijing
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Beep.
The Skype file transfer window interrupts Gardeners Question time. Bob Flowerdew has been going on about cob nuts, and I’ve been trying to get a good print off the lino block I cut. I wipe my fingers, and head for the laptop. I hit “accept”
Down comes a file from the office. I look bottom right [...]
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Microsoft – arse elbow non recogntion syndrome
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
What is it with Microsoft? I mean, it has always attracted its share of detractors, but recently they have gone out of their way to piss people off.
The absurd “Windows Genuine advantage” spyware, which makes it almost certain that at some point they will automatically download a nasty hole from MS, which will make it [...]
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is this why we fought for a thousand years
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Honestly, the French!
A law unto themselves!
(Which is ironic, as they are a driving force of the European Union, a non democratic and secretive body designed to prevent member states making their own laws for themselves)
Not content with seriously annoying the Chinese by all but instructing their citizens to mob the disabled torch-bearer last week, [...]
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Welcome to the even newer Beachhutman Blog
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
This is currently a holding page. If Baywords develops into a good community, I shall move here. For now, I’ll dual post.
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