Be Excellent To Each Other

fall in a hole and get bit on the foot by the world's most-outrunnable and asthmatic mega-rodent.

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Me: Santa sees the toys in the shops and his elves make copies of them with magic
The Girl: Like in China?
Me: Where did you get that from?
The Girl: The discovery channel.

Top tip: when moving the wheelie bin out of the way of your car, do not place it in the centre of the car's turning circle.

Seems I've got another totally legit invitation to become a Finance Assistant with a company based in Florida doing Merchant Cash Advance stuff. No experience necessary, £25k+. Seems the FSA have no record of them, either, no do companies house.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Monday it has delivered a formal request to Iran for the return of a U.S. surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces, but is not hopeful that Iran will comply.
President Barack Obama said that the U.S. wants the top-secret aircraft back. "We have asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said during a White House news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday.
He wouldn't comment on what the Iranians might learn from studying the downed aircraft.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was not optimistic about getting the drone back because of recent Iranian behavior that she said indicated "that the path that Iran seems to be going down is a dangerous one for themselves and the region."
"We submitted a formal request for the return of our lost equipment as we would in any situation to any government around the world," Clinton told reporters at a State Department news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
"Given Iran's behavior to date we do not expect them to comply but we are dealing with all of these provocations and concerning actions taken by Iran in close concert with our closest allies and partners," she said.
Neither Obama nor Clinton would provide details of the drone request, but diplomatic exchanges between Washington to Tehran are often handled by Switzerland, which represents U.S. interests in Iran. The State Department said Monday that the Swiss ambassador to Iran met with Iranian foreign ministry officials last week but refused to say what they discussed.
Iran TV reported earlier Monday that Iranian experts were in the final stages of recovering data from the RQ-170 Sentinel, which went down in Iran earlier this month. Tehran has cited the capture as a victory for Iran and displayed the nearly intact drone on state TV. U.S. officials say the aircraft malfunctioned and was not brought down by Iran.
Despite the incident, Clinton said the administration and its allies would continue to push Iran to engage over its nuclear program while at the same time increasing pressure on the regime with new, enhanced sanctions.
"We obviously believe strongly in a diplomatic approach. We want to see the Iranians engage and, as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective, but we are not giving up on it," she said.
Standing beside Clinton, Hague agreed.
"We're not giving up on engagement with Iran, but on a number of occasions Iran has behaved in a way in recent weeks and months which has intensified confrontation with the rest of the world," he said. "We have seen an increasing predilection for dangerous and illegal adventures on the part of at least parts of the Iranian regime."
Clinton and Hague referred to the storming of British diplomatic compounds in Tehran, allegations that Iran tried to arrange the assassination of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Iran's ongoing support for militant groups and its continued defiance of demands to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.

That drone does look totally space-age. The Iranians will be pawing over that shit for years. I don't buy the whole 'we brought it down with electronic warfare' nonsense, natch.

or make a database, which means building a website.

Quite. He'd be better off using Excel.

No no, he needs to use a proper professional database package, like Access.

Or one of the many, many existing web services.

When (and why) did I do this?

Or just write a list of names of favourite recipes, grouped by the main ingredient perhaps and giving name of the book and the page number.

I've discovered, after all, that Dracula is an awesome book.

One of my favourites: I usually end up re-reading it once a year or so. It's brilliant, although Jonathan Harker is a bit of a prat, and it isn't really the most enlightened when it comes to female roles.

Course, when I first read it as a petrified 12 year old, all the subtexts passed me by completely.

Oh man, and this!

http://www.fullonrobotchubby.co.uk/choose/

This part of the story was by The Rev Owen

I've discovered, after all, that Dracula is an awesome book.