Month: April 2004
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Just wrote a fantastic piece about the islands we visited on our second day's cycling only to have this shitty device eat it. So here's a summarry:
Barra - small. Cycled over mountain, took ferry North.
Eriskay - tiny fishing community.
South Uist - long, flat, full of highland cattle and sheep. Heavily Catholic.
Benbecula - picturesque.
North Uist - … -
Girl, 15, Charged With Child Porn Offences And Sexual Abuse Of Childen
Not the usual kind of story I link from my 'blog, but this particular case is of interest because the girl in question is both the perpetrator and the victim, so to speak: she posted pictures of herself online, performing sexual acts. From what we can gather, she did this of her own free will …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mission
The keyboard on this tacky little GPRS device is crap, and I just lost this entire entry to bad user interface design (if you press the biggest button on the device, it throws it all away):
My dad and I drove to Glasgow, arriving this morning at about 2am. Then, up at 8am for the first … -
And I’m Off
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
[additional fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Off to Scotland, that is, where I'll be spending a long weekend cycling and island-hopping. I've got a brief stop in Preston … -
Chicken-Heated Atomic Weapons, And Quake [TM] For Those Who Miss Text-Based Adventures
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
[further fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Two fantastic bits of funny news for you this April Fool's morning:
1. A seven-ton atomic landmine, designed to prevent Soviet advance through … -
Operation: Anticipated Container
To those who remain in Aber:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire as many cardboard boxes as possible in anticipation of Kit's upcoming mission in Stirling. Boxes selected are to be at the operatives' discretion, and from targets of oppertunity. Suggested primary targets include Somerfield, Safeway, Lidl, and Kwik Save. Suggested …