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French car number plates will soon stop showing the department where the car is registered
When they did that in Italy a few years ago, people complained and started adding their own stickers with the regional code to the new-style plates.
(tags: france italy car plates numbers department region)

I have booked myself into a cheap hotel in central Athens from 18 to 22 May 2006, along with some friends. Flights reservations to follow soon.
It is not a coincidence that the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place that weekend in that very same city.
We probably will fail to find tickets for the show and [...]

Gadget recycling foxes consumers | BBC NEWS | Technology
The little-known and unfortunately-named European Weee (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive will make it mandatory for consumers to responsibly dispose of their old gadgets.
(tags: gadget electronic recycle waste europe law)

Calm Asylum Advent Calendar 2005
A collection of twenty-four Christmas-themed games (requires Flash)
(tags: christmas flash games)

Miniature Barbie Doll [...]

While queuing at the supermarket yesterday I spotted this headline on the cover of the latest Elle UK:
Revealed: the £7.50 face cream that's so good we don't wear makeup anymore!
(or something along those lines anyway)
Of course I opened the magazine to find out about this intriguingly-named wonder: Olay's Complete Care Multi-Radiance. Because these days only [...]

End nears for Mac version of IE | BBC News | Technology
And just yesterday I have set the alarm (and failed to wake up) one hour earlier than usual to fix a freelance project for IE/Mac, the nightmare of all web developers.
(tags: apple mac microsoft ie explorer web browser useragent)

Guess-the-google
Guess what search term generated a [...]

HairTell Hair Removal Forum: Shaving Chest
Useful advice if you want to epilate your chest: 'Go buy a big bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, or White Port wine, drink most of it, stumble into the bathroom, yell "Let the battle begin!" And do what you gotta do!'
(tags: hair epilate hairremoval chest wine pain)

stripper-faq: tools of the [...]

Having a corner shop just, well, around the corner means that we are never more than five minutes away from any sort of tempting food, from eight in the morning to ten-thirty at night, seven days a week.
As you enter the shop, a stand-up fridge filled with tubs of Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry icecream [...]

The Penguin Podcast: A Christmas Carol - Episode 1
Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' free podcast from the Penguin website, in five daily instalments.
(tags: podcast dickens achristmascarol download literature)

Microsoft Express Editions
Visual Studio Express free for a year. SQL Server Express free forever. Total size approximately 400MB.
(tags: free microsoft software windows programming .net)

VideoHelp.com
Provides information on how to make [...]

I am exceptionally posting from work because Dr B.'s upgrade of the modem/wireless router resulted in no internet access from home.
So Christmas has officially arrived in our household: I bought two oranges to be decorated with cloves. I found out we were out of cloves. I went down to the surprisingly well stocked corner shop, [...]

And if the devil is equipped with a Braun Silk-épil, you can go from being moderately hairy-chested to the whole plucked chicken look, including life-like bumpy rash, all in the space of half a Madonna album.
Not a good look. I was so ashamed I slept with a t-shirt on.
Ouch.
And all I can look forward now [...]

The sale of Dr B.'s flat fell through just as he had obtained an additional mortgage to purchase a bigger property. The buyer does not have access to the moneys until July.
We had visited a lovely top-floor loft-style warehouse conversion only a five minute walk from Vauxhall tube, and Dr B. was about to put [...]

FDNY Calendar of Heroes 2006 | Naked City Boys
Meet Joe Ortega, FDNY Firefighter/NYC Go-Go Boy. Only in New York.
(tags: calendar firefighter newyork gogoboy)

Morning erections have nothing to do with dreams of sexy ladies - or sexy men, for that matter.
I had a hard time pointing at the toilet bowl after waking up today, and all I was dreaming of was that I was in a new job and we'd just been hacked. Hardly stiffy material, I know.
Although [...]

NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox | Behind the Curtain at TCG
'The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA's standard browser is Firefox'
(tags: browser firefox internet microsoft news opensource web)

Dr B. has received an offer on his flat. This is the flat we share and that he put on the market two months ago in order to move to a larger place with a second bedroom (which is already being called 'the snoring room' in honour of my night-time concertos).
The buyer is willing to [...]

RocketFM -|Griffin Technology
'RocketFM uses any available FM frequency to transmit audio through your home, car or office stereo system.' Only 40USD, but I have a feeling this is unfortunately illegal in the UK.
(tags: audio mp3 radio wireless)

If the latest documentary on Madonna had been aired five years ago, I would very likely have set two VCRs - and watched the broadcast itself - just to make sure I did not miss it.
Last night I ignored it (alright, I forgot about it) and watched Little Britain instead. I'm Going To Tell You [...]

Working as a temp provides many perks. Leaving on a whim, for example. Taking long breaks between assignments is another one. Switching employers if relationships are less than ideal, or putting up with bad conditions knowing that you're out of there in two paychecks' time.
However, if like me you have been temping in the same [...]