"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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You might not have noticed because most of the British press seems curiously reluctant to cover it, but earlier in the week, the New York Times produced some new evidence that the Conservative party’s chief spin doctor Andy Coulson knew much more about the phone hacking scandal of 2006 than he was letting on. Maybe they were too busy covering allegations regarding William Hague’s sexuality, and his emotional revelations about not being gay that came out at the same time, handily and totally coincidentally for the Conservatives’ spin doctor. Ahem.
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Julie Spence, the outgoing head of Cambridgeshire police, says drivers consider speeding as acceptable and change their minds only if they lose a child in a road accident.
“Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour,” she says. “People think we should be able to get away with it. They wouldn’t tolerate lawbreaking by somebody else but they do it themselves without thinking.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she claims that the biggest problem perceived by the public in her county is speeding drivers in rural areas and illegal parking by parents outside schools.
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David Cameron has defended plans to use credit rating firms to “go after” people fraudulently claiming benefits.
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So Floyd Landis, having spent the last four years lying about his drug use and blood doping, now tells us he is telling us the truth and that we should believe him because he knows that Lance Armstrong is a liar on this score too. I personally don’t think Floyd is what our learned friends would call a credible witness. People will make their own minds up about Lance, most probably have already. My conclusion was that in his glory years he made the Tour de France boring. In this respect he redeemed himself significantly last [
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The Olympics are coming to London, so our civil liberties are going out the window: because nothing epitomises the spirit of global competition and cooperation like corporate bullying and unfettered truncheon-waving.
Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.
“I think there will be lots of people doing things completely innocently who are going to be caught by this, and some people will be prosecuted, while others will be so angry about it that they will start complaining about civil [
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The US-based International Intellectual Property Alliance has asked the US Trade Rep to add Indonesia to its list of rogue nations that don’t respect copyright. What did Indonesia do to warrant inclusion on this “301 list”? Its government had the temerity to advise its ministries to give preference to free/open source software because it will cost less and reduce the use of pirated proprietary software in government. According to the IPA, this movement to reduce copyright infringement is actually bad for copyright, because “it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights and also limits the ability of government [
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The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week.
This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access.
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What do a trucker, an Israeli entrepreneur, Al Gore and Richard Branson all have in common? Proof that the real goldmines are old, neglected industries.
The name of that proof is GreenRoad. While so many entrepreneurs bang their heads against a Web and social media advertising brick wall, GreenRoad has applied common technology to an industry technology has largely passed by and—voilà—they’ve got a business that’s growing and saving lives, money and the environment.
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Parking wardens working for London’s local authorities routinely issue tickets against authority-owned vehicles. When this happens, the authority takes itself to court to argue that it shouldn’t have to pay fines to itself. Sometimes, they ask the courts to award themselves legal costs from their own pockets. This according to Barrie Segal, who published a book in 2007 on London’s insane parking enforcement called The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell.
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The article below led to this article being published.
Then Ms Jacobs was contacted by none other than the project-leader for Buzz. Here in a follow-up post, with more restrained language, she outlines her feelings today and reflects upon Google’s ‘clumsiness’. Remove shoe, take aim, fire.
I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother.
There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts.
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In August 2008, Apple approved an application in the App Store called I Am Rich. The app did nothing beyond show a picture of a red gem. So why was it notable? Because it cost $999.99. Though Apple pulled it relatively quickly, there was some concern that we’d start to see a rush of bogus applications and/or huge prices in the App Store. Luckily, that didn’t happen and app prices have remained low (some would say too low). But now we have the return of a $999.99 app.
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Graphics – I Pay Road Tax.
Top Gear!
It’s amazing sometimes that the global population is as high as it is. Good to see the Bill followed procedure with the”Police Accident” sign. What exactly is accidental about this outcome. All that nonsense about railings, warning-signs, seat-belts and helmets eh? – Well I hope they had fun. But elsewhere, in a grown-up country, this.
A police spokesman said: “While it goes without saying that the vast majority of people have the good sense not to take their vehicles on to frozen waterways, this incident serves as an example of the type of stupidity [
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Rubbish! rubbish! rubbish! Latest in the series, “lazy people collect reasons to ensure that they never have to get out of their cars”
The fashion for wearing iPods while cycling has been blamed for a rise in the number of riders being killed or seriously injured.
Dubbed the iPod zombies, cyclists who are distracted by thumping tunes blaring in their ears have become the latest menace on Britain’s roads.
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A jury has returned a verdict of not proven in the trial of a van driver accused of killing a cyclist.
Elspeth Kelman, 59, was struck on the island of Arran during a cycling trip in memory of her late husband.
Charges against Nick Underdown, 28, of causing death by careless driving, were found not proven.
A police report had blamed the 28-year-old for the fatal crash but his defence counsel successfully argued this should not be seen by the jury.
via BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Cyclist death charge ‘not proven’.
A former international showjumper who critically injured a cyclist because he was taking up too much road has been jailed for 33 months by Guildford Crown Court.
Christopher Robertson, 22, drove his car into Leslie Smith, 66, a former IT consultant, on a country lane in Surrey.
After leaving Mr Smith for dead, Robertson, the son of wealthy stud farm owners, began trying to cover up his role in the crash near his home in the village of Chiddingfold. He hosed down his Citroën Xantia, had a damaged numberplate replaced and ordered a junior colleague to remove police notices [
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Blimey this is a boring post. The argument has to be made, of course, but while one WILL NOT support loutish cyclists one will also not support fat, lazy people looking to persecute all cyclists and force helmet use to portray cycling as a dangerous as well as anti-social activity to excuse their idleness and selfishness.
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LONDON – The High Court has granted an order allowing an injunction to be served via micro blogging site Twitter for the first time.
The order is to be served on behalf of a blogger called Donal Blaney who is pursuing an unknown Twitter user. Blaney claims the user is posing as him and is breaching his copyright and intellectual property
via Blogger gets first court order served via Twitter – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic.
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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