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From the Gunroom: June 2005
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005. What do you think about when you think of your grandfather? In my case, a rather large man smelling strongly of beer pursuing me (in fun) around the kitchen table. My other grandfather enjoyed a smoke right up until his death at 98. He outlived two wives and was still riding his push-bike to the pub in his 80s. But these two kindly fellows had nothing on this guy from Kenya. Grandfather kills leopard with his hands. As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrive...
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From the Gunroom: Who says UK Government is out of touch?
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005. Who says UK Government is out of touch? Few ministers are in the jobs long enough to master their briefs, if, indeed they had the wit and intelligence to try, and anyway, if they did try to actually do something, Prime Minister "My Little" Tony Bliar would have them out of his politburo quicker than you could say Mandelson. ASBO boss in 'foul-mouthed rant'. Miss Casey, 38, was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to head the Home Office's anti-social behaviour unit. Last month...
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From the Gunroom: February 2005
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Sunday, February 27, 2005. A Blast from the Past. I was contacted by someone I worked for in the 1980s and early 90s. Around 1993 I wrote some software for this person which was deployed in a manufacturing facility. It was updated by me over the next few years until I moved on. Various other people had responsibility for it after that. It's a mixture of Visual Basic 3 (yes, 3.0) and Visual C 1.52. All 16 bit. And in the meantime, my original customer was still manufacturing parts, the lines churning day ...
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From the Gunroom: Dell Sucks
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Monday, July 11, 2005. My wife uses a newer model Latitude from work, and it's fortunate she works for a major law firm. She has had so many replacement parts practically only the shell is left of the original machine she was given two years ago. There are some great blogs on the subject of Dell's dire products and customer service here. 15 years ago we could sell you a PC and send a knowledgeable person round to fix it in the event there was a problem. But you were paying for that! Eric S. Raymond.
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From the Gunroom: One Tough Senior...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005. What do you think about when you think of your grandfather? In my case, a rather large man smelling strongly of beer pursuing me (in fun) around the kitchen table. My other grandfather enjoyed a smoke right up until his death at 98. He outlived two wives and was still riding his push-bike to the pub in his 80s. But these two kindly fellows had nothing on this guy from Kenya. Grandfather kills leopard with his hands. As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrive...
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From the Gunroom: Bad News For Cruise
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Sunday, July 10, 2005. Bad News For Cruise. First, Tom Cruise jumps around on a sofa during a chat show. Then he bizarrely attacks Brooke Shields - not for being a spoilt, whiny brat - but for using antidepressants. And the latest news is Cruise's blockbuster War of the Worms has been knocked off the charts by a film about the mating habits of Penguins. Star penguins walk all over Tom Cruise. John Harlow, Los Angeles. The film - described by one critic as an avian version of When Harry Met Sally - was bo...
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From the Gunroom: Oops
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Saturday, July 23, 2005. Shot man not connected to London bombings. Posted by gunroom @ 12:00 PM. Comments: Post a Comment. View my complete profile. Cargolaw - Some Amazing Pictures. Cerberus - US Police Officer. Copper's blog - UK Police Officer. Free Market Fairy Tales. Eric S. Raymond.
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From the Gunroom: May 2005
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Monday, May 30, 2005. French Vote "No" To Union of European Socialist Republics. Yesterday in what is being touted as a historic moment, the French gave a decisive thumbs-down to the EU Constitution which, in France, was clearly being promoted as establishing a United States of Europe (in the UK the Government maintains the fiction the constitution is merely an administrative tidying-up exercise). More details at the BBC. Disclaimer: the BBC, while ostensibly non-political, has a strong pro-EU bias.
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