Archive for March, 2007
So, Cyclone George tore through the old haunts, killing three people on a mining railway construction camp. Could have been worse, though - it got up to 275 Km/h.. This bloke stuck it out in South Hedland, and has photos.
Sneaking through the barrio, I came on a bleakly lighted doorway, that bore the mark of the cult…
The place called itself a “Poulperia”, which I took to mean it specialised in squid.
Charlie Stross is apparently thinking of using the huge GEC Marconi/BAE cost overruns as a plot device for one of his books - the idea being that some sort of really cool (and evil) skunkworks project was being funded off the books through the vast sums of money wasted on NimWACS, Astute, Eurofighter, Nimrod MRA4, [...]
Looks like Port Hedland, Western Australia, is about to get hit head-on by a major cyclone, and Marble Bar just afterwards..this blogger has the last dispatch.
Media: Transmitters serving the area between Dampier and Sandfire Roadhouse arerequested to sound the Standard Emergency Warning Signal before broadcasting thefollowing warning.
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TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 43Issued at 9:05 [...]
Our regular reader, MySociety prime mover, pythonmeister, sysadmin, hammer of government mainframe psychosis, Chris “Chris” Lightfoot has died, at a terribly young age.
I never met him, but I saw and used enough of his projects, and shared enough blog, to respect his good sense, campaigning venom, and technical chops greatly. In fact, Chris was [...]
Our regular reader, MySociety prime mover, pythonmeister, sysadmin, hammer of government mainframe psychosis, Chris “Chris” Lightfoot has died, at a terribly young age.
I never met him, but I saw and used enough of his projects, and shared enough blog, to respect his good sense, campaigning venom, and technical chops greatly. In fact, Chris was [...]
There’s been a lot of fisking on this blog lately. More than I am happy about - I try to get back to something more positive and discursive, but then, someone comes along and pisses in my pool. Usually a government minister. This trend keeps up.
Paul Farrelly MP, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, recently brought [...]
There’s been a lot of fisking on this blog lately. More than I am happy about - I try to get back to something more positive and discursive, but then, someone comes along and pisses in my pool. Usually a government minister. This trend keeps up.
Paul Farrelly MP, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, recently brought [...]
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