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Hello, and welcome to my annual whinge...
Posted Jun 19, 2005
... about the London to Brighton cycle race.
Once again half the road into town is closed to all but cyclists.
Once again all the parking spaces are full of trucks and minibuses and SUVs and other support vehicles for the cyclists.
Once again there is total traffic gridlock.
But unlike in previous years, today is a really really hot day. Therefore the invading hoardes are suffering for once in the heat.
I tell you, you don't have to look out for the route, you can smell it at a distance! 
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Here Come The Tears
Posted Jun 13, 2005
And it arrives with the sense of excitement and of hopes for the future crushed.
There are a couple of decent enough tracks at the end of the album. But to get there you've got to sit through a whole load of flannel.
Stick with the eponymously named first album and the marvellous and magnificent Dog Man Star. Heck, even Coming Up was better than this new effort.
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Wing Mirrors...
Posted Jun 11, 2005
... are God's way of telling you that you are driving just a little bit too close to that car what you have just passed.
Living in a road so narrow - cars are parked on both sides of the road, room only for one vehicle to pass along between the lines with a foot or so leeway - I've never understood why some idiots insist on parking their car 18 inches away from the curb.
I clipped the badly parked car's wing mirror, and simultaneously the wing mirror of the correctly parked car on the other side of the road, on my way to the shops.
When I got back I see that someone else has been along the road, but in something probably a bit bigger than me, and moving a tad faster than I was. Both the stuck out wing mirrors were gone; now lying smashed and broken in the road.
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Foreign Coke Tastes Funny
Posted Jun 11, 2005
I should have been on alert when I realised that the logo read, "Coca-Cola Light", as opposed to the more normal, "Diet Coke".
But I wasn't paying much attention. I needed a drink, and I'd run out of the usual multi-pack canned stuff from the supermarket. So I grabbed a couple of these bottles from the corner store.
The bottle is the same size and shape as the 500ml one that we know and love in the UK. The label is the same size and same colour. The bottletop is the same white plastic. It's just the logo that's different. Oh, that and the taste.
So I look a little more closely at what I'd bought.
The label has some weird looking Cyrillic, or Hindi, or... definitely foreign script on it. And a nice helpful little label in English that says, "Produce of Georgia".
I don't think we're talking Atlanta here...
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New Posts Link?
Posted Jun 2, 2005
Is it my imagination, or has the counter for the number of new posts when it's displayed in your conversations list just become a clickable link?
The link is in the usual and familiar F[xxx]?thread=[xxx]&show=20&skip=[xxx] format, but has now grown a new attribute of #pi[xxx] at the end of the link, which takes you to the last (or possibly one after the last - it'll need testing) post that you viewed in the thread.
So why no announcement about this important and *extremely* useful bit of site development?
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