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  • Camp For Climate Action

    14 - 21 August 2007This summer, the Camp for Climate Action will pitch its tents at Heathrowairport for a week of education, sustainable living, and direct action totackle aviation, the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions inthe UK.All our efforts to tackle climate change i …

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  • Review — Chiddingstone Bone Dry

    Chiddigstone Bone Dry is brewed by the Castle Cider company in Sevenoaks, Kent. Served at the Spotted Dog in Penshurst and to my knowledge, no other pub in the area, this 7.5%er certainly packs a powerful punch. It has a crisp, light appearance and certainly does not taste like a strong cider. It h …

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  • Review — Addlestones

    I had high hopes for Addlestones, being, as I was, somewhat hungover from a night at the local. The occasion was the opening of my pal Meredy's official birthday season. It was lunchtime and I was on the other side of Magdalen bridge. To East Oxfordians the other side of the bridge is a place of …

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  • ALF: Apache log filter

    ALF is a filter for people using Apache logging to plain text logs, who still want the flexibility of being able to search their logs like a database. It relies heavily on Jeff Zucker's DBD::AnyData to do the clever stuff, and overlays that with a simple Gtk2 interface.You can run SQL queries a …

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  • Vim tip — Preview webpage source

    Here's a neat little trick for people who have a *nix setup, vim and lynx browser. I’ve remapped my F8 Key to use lynx to dump the nicely formatted source of a web page in a new window. Useful for testing if your site is working. In my .vimrc I added the following lines: split at the bot …

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  • Bellamy Doesn’t Exist Claim Scientists

    Scientists have today claimed that there is no conclusive evidence that David Bellamy, the controversial botanist and TV personality, exists or was caused by human activity.Man or myth? Speaking from a windfarm in Northern Scotland a scientist from the Intergovernmental Panel on C …

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  • Review — Aspalls Premier Cru

    You may be thinking that labelling a cider Premier Cru is, well, a bit wanky. And I’d have to agree with you. However, Aspall Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder made me reconsider. A bone dry feast of light appley loveliness in a distinctive cone shaped bottle, it positively leapt down my neck. Hone …

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  • Review — Sam Smiths Organic Cider

    I think that Sam Smith's, the Tadcaster based independent brewery, are a fantastic organisation. Everything they brew is vegan and a high percentage is organic. They run some of the cheapest and most pleasant pubs about; their pubs feel like proper pubs, rather than soulless McPub beer malls. By W …

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  • Review — Westons Organic

    My local pub started selling Westons Organic cider a few months ago. I’m feeling pretty lucky about it I can tell you. Though mass produced, it's a real cider, made from fruit rather than concentrate. It has a nice balance between bitttersweet apple and booze. Its fairly heavy; more a cider f …

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  • My Geek Codes

    How to tell the world you are a geek, you ask? Use the universal Geek code! Using this special code will allow you to let other un-closeted geeks know who you are in a simple, codified statement... The Universal Geek Code PageSo here's mine.-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLO …

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