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FoI Across The Pond

News about the UK government back-pedalling on the FoI Order is watched by British ex-pats across the pond, such as dominichamon:

Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret - Boing Boing

The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are being bandied around rather a lot at the moment, but it’s stories like this that actually deserve those epithets.

Film: Hancock

Had some good moments!

Monoski: Day Five

Yesterday the conditions in Morzine, Les Gets and Avoriaz we awful: rain during the night had turned snow into slush, and packed snow into ice. The walk from the flat into town was treacherous, and the people I spoke to in the town had stories of their own small personal disasters from bad falls to car crashes. The pistes were carnage too: visibility was poor to non-existent thanks to the high humidity condensing on goggles and glasses; constantly falling snow, slush and rain made visibility even worse; leg-breaker snow jostled for prime positioning on the slopes with ice patches.

Facelift

It’s not been many months since I moved my personal blog from PyBlosxom to Tumblr. Before that I used a set of my own scripts on Zope (originally DTML and later ZPT), and before that my website was generated by my own custom-written HTML preprocessor.

Film: Shrooms

Film: V for Vendetta

Quoting a friend, Rain:

that film — with its dubious quasi fascistic weirdly sexist ideology — has a great deal to answer for

Verily.

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