2010

Changes planned, there are.
2010 will be a big year, eh Phil?
Happy New Year to the extended Crumble family…

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An Open Resolution

To Gerald Kaufman, MP; Tony Lloyd, MP; and Graham Stringer, MP.
Given that Manchester will be the first city in the United Kingdom in which citizens can sign up for an ID card;
Aware that the aforementioned represent constituencies in Manchester;
Postulating that their votes in favour of ID cards means that they think that possession of an [...]

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Sydney (1)

Seem to have avoided the dreaded jet lag – our strategy for managing what ended up a 33 hour journey from Manchester to Sydney seems to have worked.  It’s now 8am-ish and I’m sipping my morning coffee watching the sun ascend into the unbroken blue Australian sky, accompanied by the calls of both the birdlife [...]

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1234567890

Countdown until that momentous occasion when Unix time will equal 1234567890.

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The Day the Music Died

Today marks the fiftieth anniversay of the deaths, in a light aeroplane accident, of Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson (aka the Big Bopper), and Buddy Holly.
At approximately 1:00 AM Central Time on February 3, the plane took off from Mason City Municipal Airport. Around 1:05, Jerry Dwyer, the owner of Dwyer Flying Service, could see the [...]

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Merry Christmas!

All the festive best to the crumble.org readers, writers and netstumblers.

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Wikipaedo

The album cover for the 1976 Scorpions album “Virgin Killer” has resulted in the clever bastards at the Internet Watch Foundation (motto: “stop what you’re doing on the internets, we’re watching you”) to add Wikipedia to their list of sites providing child pornography – or as their website itself states:
Please note that “child pornography”, “child [...]

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The Manchester Congestion Charge

The Manchester Congestion Charge makes me furious.
There is soon to be a public vote on the scheme, and the “YES” and “NO” camps are increasing their publicity on the locality.
Let’s compare Manchester with London.
London’s public transport network is the largest in the country and comprehensively covers a wide area.  In London, there can be little [...]

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Webfiltered!

crumble.org is now filtered by Websense as “Message Board & Forums”. It therefore eats up the quota time of those worker ants subjected to the whims of the IT people who still believe that they can stop people looking at what they damn well like on the interweb.

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