Micheal Jackson’s Neverland ranch has been saved from auction as he’s managed to refinance, just enough to keep it for now. It’s not clear if he’ll ever move back into it, the place is falling apart.
The merry-go-round stands rusting and lifeless. An elaborate floral display that used to stand proudly at the front of the [...]

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Wired has a nice piece on the state of Privacy in America - expect none under Bush.
President Bush has failed to nominate candidates for a congressionally empowered privacy board intended to police anti-terrorism programs.
Photo: AP / Monsivais
The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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Oh Microsoft, when will you change your business practices? Although this is hardly a drop in the ocean for any company this will not unduly hurt MS. It will mean that MS will not turn a profit in the EU for the next five years or so. Will it change the way MS runs its [...]

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Someone in the house of commons has a sense of humour. Albeit the dark kind :)

A motion calling for the disestablishment of the Church of England appeared on the House of Commons order paper today - bizarrely numbered 666, the number associated with the Antichrist.
Bob Russell, Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester, one of the signatories, [...]

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How to Protect your Laptop, MacBook or MacBook Pro
So you’ve just spent a small fortune on your new laptop? Money that could have gone toward gold plating your dog, cat or toddler. Although you missed on on the gold plating, you do have a wonderful new shiny laptop. All is well with the world - [...]

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This has garnered so much attention that I’ve been put off posting about it. The problem is I love the original Star Wars and Steam Punk, so this is really to good for me not to post about.
Lego makers are a dedicated bunch, it takes a lot of patience and skill to make a good [...]

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What is a blog? What should a blog be? What’s your blog’s point?
Well one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger, gives his views in this Wired article. Some of his points I agree with, some don’t make sense and take the power and bite out of the collective production and sway of the blog.
At [...]

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