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what on earth

07.07.2008 · Posted in food, info

indeed: Burgess created his own version of the cocktail, “Hangman’s Blood,” first described by novelist Richard Hughes in his 1929 novel, A High Wind in Jamaica. He described its preparation as follows: “Into a pint glass, doubles [i.e. 50ml measures] of the following are poured: gin, whiskey, rum, port and brandy. A small bottle of ...

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and the pursuit thereof

07.06.2008 · Posted in food, info, work

so happiness means different things to different people of course, but an alarming trend is the interpretation of happiness as all ice cream parties and unicorns. the thing that some headlines and commentary seem to miss or gloss over is that happiness in a work context usually means feeling like one has a quantity of ...

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pee dee eff

07.05.2008 · Posted in info, tech, unix and linux, visual

if you’re trying to generate a pdf with php fpdf is easy to use. don’t forget the font converter and if you’re on a mac fondu. fondu configured and installed painlessly for me, ymmv of course. ...

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broke down

07.01.2008 · Posted in info, stuff, tech, unix and linux

and am going to install ubuntu-eee on sato. one hiccup so far– the instructions don’t mention that you may need to install dosfstools. yeah so eff that. after pulling some hair out i went with debianeeepc instead. painless install, regular old debian system, few issues. i had this great idea of putting the swap partition ...

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