simon gray — 2016-03-18, 14:46:59
An SDS hammer drill is definitely the tool of choice for drilling into a wall. Srsly, every home should have one.
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An SDS hammer drill is definitely the tool of choice for drilling into a wall. Srsly, every home should have one.
[...]"There will come a time soon when for some councils there won't be a council website any more - the website will be the council" - Tom Steinberg, founder, MySociety
The stakeholders of the council web estate are:
These stakeholders each have a variety of different transactional, informational, and marketing needs from the site, some of which may on the [...]
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In group Public / Third Sector DigitalSeen on Twitter last night - a company selling insurance against one's Wordpress installation being hacked. If the Wordpress security landscape has got so bad that people need insurance to pay for recovery after a potential hack, I'd say it's time to stop using Wordpress. #internet #webdev
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That moment when you’re making the separate dinner for the deBaby because yours can’t be babified & think ‘i wouldn’t mind that for myself’.
(cabbage, red pepper. onion, cumin seed, and caraway seed, since you were wondering)
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I’ve come home to a news story that apparently the Russians spied on Mao Tse-Tung’s poo. It’s a glorious life, the life of a spy.
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END OF THE IPHONE AND IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF APPLE KLAXON!!11!!
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I give them another four months before people have forgotten they ever existed.
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I do wish the toilet paper dispensers on trains - all trains - weren't so crap.
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In John Lewis, with a friend who was looking for a salad spinner. Neither of the two assistants working in the kitchen department knew what a salad spinner is.
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Here's a thing which occurs to me - do celebrity television astronomers (such as eg Maggie Aderin-Pocock) get a bit narked seeing celebrity television particle physicists such as Brian Cox fronting space programmes?
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When you get to the end of your coffee and realise you forgot to put the milk in it.
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With so much recent dross for the #radio4 #630comedy, John Finnemore continues to be a genuine comedy genius.
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Person who stops walking near the top of the train escalator - you're the worst kind of left-side escalator stander.
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See also: 'the unit cost of a CD is 70p, so why should I have to pay £10 for one' - TripAdvisor review.
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'Subtle' is the word I'd use to describe the flavour. Not bland, subtle.
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Today's the day the #localgov Twitter world will orgasm over grit.
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Woman in front of me in works canteen queue, giving every impression it was the first time she'd paid for something by card. #yolo
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Who will take over the ownership of the family knifemaking firm now he's died?
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If I'm not mistaken, that looks like frost out there. Best wear my english country goth chick chic coat.
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Composer Pierre Boulez has sadly died; his daughter Patti is said to be distraught. Inheritance of the royalties for the Planet of the Apes novel series is yet to be decided.
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The code behind this site is a bit of an abandoned project; I originally had lofty ambitions of it being the start of a competitor for Twitter and Facebook, allowing other people to also use it turning it into a bit of a social network. Needless to say I got so far with it and thought who did I think I was! Bits of it don't work as well as I'd like it to work - at some point I'm going to return to it and do a complete rebuild according to modern standards.