…grayblog…- separating the wanted from the unwanted

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zimbabwe court clears UK tycoon

Nicholas van Hoogstraten cleared by court in Zimbabwe. Apparently, because the police didn't have a warrant to search for illegal pornography (which they didn't expect to find during a search which was to identify evidence related to alleged illegal financial transactions), he can't be guity of a crime. Hmm. Have I missed something here? Coincidentally, Mr van Hoogstraten is a good mate of a certian Robert Mugabe.

(tags: Nicholas_van_Hoogstraten Zimbabwe law news)

BBC - Earth News - Huge declines in woodland birds

Nightingale numbers fallen by 95% over 30 years. But there's one in the tree outside my door, singing its lungs out.

(tags: nature science news environment birds nightingale)

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

Teenager exchanges his iPod for a Walkman. "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."

(tags: technology BBC)

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I can’t be the only one that read this news story and thought of this blogger.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Get a Wiggle on

Of course, they were much better when Greg wore the yellow shirt…

(tags: entertainment Wiggles children)

Duckworth-Lewis > Home

No need for a huge calculator when you have this website - just a huge laptop, wifi and a power supply. Also, D/L explained.

(tags: Duckworth-Lewis cricket sport tools)
Windows Clipboard Software/Freeware and Clipboard Viewer - if you ever use CTRL-C, you need ClipMagic!

Excellent ClipBoard manager. I'm wondering how I managed without it for all this time.

(tags: free software utility windows clipboard)