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I keep reading online polls on websites like this

My biggest issue is, i want two extra options, "I don't know who these people are" and "I really don't care" I'd be interested to see what the statistics would show if that was put into more polling.

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For those of you who know. Its happening on monday... wish me luck

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Gordon Brown's school report for the 2007-2008 school year. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/today_20080627-0820.mp3 All rights held by the today program of the BBC.

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I know i'm a bit late on this, mainly because i only watched the countdown podcast this evening. I've tried to maintain an interest in US politics, but its difficult to do when you are on the other side of the ocean. After coming here i've tried to make up for lost time, but even then my first real exposure to John McCain was in the Iowa debate. I saw someone who made my skin crawl, he honestly struck me as someone "scary beyond all reason", and when he finally rose to the republican leadership i found my inital gut reaction confirmed time and again. But i didn't have the historical depth to know enough about his history, beyond his status as a Viet-Cong prisoner of war and his rather slimy entry into US politics. Comments like a hundred years in iraq, and lack of any knowledge about the world outside his bedroom, his attitudes to people who disagree with him, all helped confirmed my feeling that this is the president we were warned about. The one that would be so insane as to press the button. Then came the "its not important" comment, and after all the attempts to ...

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Just a list of people i think deserve to be honored, for doing something right (eventually)

• Diane Abbott
• Richard Burden
• Katy Clark
• Harry Cohen
• Frank Cook
• Jeremy Corbyn
• Jim Cousins
• Andrew Dismore
• Frank Dobson
• David Drew
• Paul Farrelly
• Mark Fisher
• Paul Flynn
• Neil Gerrard
• Dr Ian Gibson
• Roger Godsiff
• John Grogan
• Dai Havard
• Kate Hoey
• Kelvin Hopkins
• Glenda Jackson
• Dr Lynne Jones
• Peter Kilfoyle
• John McDonnell
• Andrew Mackinlay
• Bob Marshall-Andrews
• Michael Meacher
• Julie Morgan
• Chris Mullin
• Dr Doug Naysmith
• Gordon Prentice
• Linda Riordan
• Alan Simpson
• Emily Thornberry
• David Winnick
• Mike Wood

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Finally after days of waiting there seems to be a storm starting up over Troy, I couldn't get a good outside shot, so i went for the google earth weather view showing the storm.

I do know that its been coming in from the rest of america rather than forming here, but sounds better that its starting up over here. Image is a derivation of information from Google Earth, and Weather.com

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Its almost midnight, and its still overly hot.

If i go to the front of the apartment, its like an oven... i'm torn between turning the air conditioner off, and keeping it on... but i'll probably be environmental and turn it off.

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Found this via Shakenbysound

-6 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

I take it as a matter of pride.

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I've just noticed that when i post something to the front page, it doesn't automatically update, which is correct behavior, however the sidebar notices there is an entry on this day (even if according to the cache its not live yet. I'm going to have to tweak some code to neaten this all out.

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As anyone who's in troy has noticed, summer has arrived, late as usual, and on overdrive to make up for missed time. (Humidity 82%, 30-35C, less that 6mph winds)... However i took it as an excuse to wash my lovely car
Next time tho i may get them to do a whole works rather than a basic scrub, but its gonna rain with a vengance some time in the next week so that would seem a bit of a waste. So i got home after getting a few bits and pieces (no noro sock yarn as yet, most yarn stores round here seem to be closed on sundays) and turned on the air conditioner.
But because its only in the kitchen, and my apartment is huge and been heated all day, it did struggle a bit, so i ended up finding a creative use for my knitting needles and a fairly useless sheet.... more

UPDATE: 3 police cars blocking my street, can't see what they are up to. There's no paddywaggon so they aren't rounding up the subversives, Also my camera strap decided to detach, but thankfully i managed to stop the camera hitting the ground too hard so its okay. I've gone back to bed, with the front windows open in the hope that sylvester will make his own way out.

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...all about friendly housing blocks, and evil psychotic ones with nasty inhabitants (someone fed me stella last night). As per normal with a weird dream like this i faded in and out of consciousness until i realized there was something in my flat, mainly due to the fact that it flew into and out of my bedroom. Despite here being 2 inches of open window in the back window, a bat has creeped into my apartment, and has subsequently found that it can't get out so easily. This explains the weird dreams.... However due to the fact that i'm freaked out by all this, i am sitting in the living room with all the lights on, but its too scared to come to the front to go out the windows. I have the trouble that i can't get back to scare it out because there is only one hallway for both of us to get to the the back and it keeps fluttering around. Also the police are out in force on my street, but i can't really look because i'm petrified by the bat... I'm buying window filters tomorrow. Sylvester seems to have gone to ground for now, i've ...

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As of today, in theory if i choose to, i should be able to post from my normal blog to livejournal :)

I'll clean up the code a bit, and post it for download in a few days, should work for any python situation.

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The doctor may have no more lives left. The implication of what he said when Jenny died, was that she was too like him, which was why she couldn't regenerate. Also Ood Sigma did make the doctor shudder by saying that his song was almost over. The original season made 12 regenerations a rarely violated limit, except for the Master violating his end regeneration limit several times. However we know little about what happened in the war, and also its entirely possible that the Doctor would be able to use one of the methods available to extend his life, however if i'm right and this was a deliberate clue, then i doubt whether an easy fix will be offered.

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Okay it may not be a volcano, but its a pretty dawn, and today was a pretty morning...

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