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Entries from February 15th, 2006

Quiet Desperation

February 15th, 2006 · Comments Off on Quiet Desperation · Life

The phrase “quiet desperation” has always appealed to me. It crops up twice in Pink Floyd lyrics. I always assumed that Roger Waters came up with it and was so pleased with himself that he used it again. Today I came across the phrase in the book The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, and from […]

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Bad e-mail day

February 15th, 2006 · Comments Off on Bad e-mail day · Life

I got home from work today to find 12 e-mails waiting for me. 7 were just spam/advertising Of those 3 were what I would call dodgy – software for 20% of the list price, or obscure mails with just a link to a geocities URL 3 were fraudulent phishing attempts – two purporting to be […]

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