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I went with the ThinkPad option in the end – the wily denizens of the computer souk managed to upsell me from the ThinkPad Edge 11 to a fully fledged X200S that looks like you have to wear a tie to start it up. Next step, clear up my data enough to look at moving…

Arms Control Wonk has been running a series on how Iranian missiles work and how well. It’s bloody brilliant; go read, and you’ll come away thinking you could maybe start your own launcher project. Elsewhere, incredible interview with Bill Janeway about the financial crisis, Ministry of Truth on Baby P, Felix Salmon spanks rightwing mythology…

The true genius of our society: we invented a drug that turns fat people thin but then makes them depressed.

Utterly trivial, but fun – here are all the songs I’ve referred to on the blog for the last 6 months, in reverse chronological order. (You know 3UK’s voicemail service plays messages back to you in *chronological* order, so you have to listen to all the others before getting the most recent? USABILITY FAIL.) Know…

I’ve been blogging longer than the Rude Pundit.

So some of our friends came around; and brought their kids. We got out the Chumby, the roast chickens, the giant spiders…no, seriously… And Maud didn’t want to leave her first Unix system. (First of all they found the touchscreen settings, which were presumably more fun than watching it looping over RSS feeds, but the…