tooth implants

It starts with some anesthetics. A few pricks to the front of your jawbone. Nothing serious. Then a few jabs in the canopy with the same syringe.
While the weapons of choice are being prepared, the upper part of your mouth goes numb as it should be.
Then there is a small incision and the drilling starts. [...]

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MAKE: wabbit Ikea HHGTTG hacker

A simple Ikea cardboard box, a towel and ready.

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cooking pr0n

I treated myself to a new cooking pot yeterday. I saw this cocotte in a shop for a reasonable price. A nice plus was that it came in a clean black, which is always a tat more stylish than the usual orange colour of these things.
Stew will be coming our way soon …

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IT Crowd – Season 3- Episode 2

Seems to be no footage online of this episode. Too bad.

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IT Crowd – Season 3- Episode 1

A new series of “The IT Crowd” has been launched by Channel 4 and the inevitable internets have put them on the tubez. So here we go, hold tight for a ride of laughter:
Season 3 Episode 1 : From Hell :
Part 1

Part 2

Part3
[...]

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finally

Finally home for a longer period. Obviously I hope to cash in on this time but there is so much to do:

blog a bit
cleaning (a lot of cleaning to do since I skipped this years big spring clean up)
reading (still have over 10 books lying around in different phases of being read)
visiting (not only the [...]

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Religion = Violence

This didn’t come really as a surprise to me.
Some time back, paleontologist Gregory Paul collected data on religion and safety trying to correlate between the faithfulness/religion of people and locations and the fact that they are safer parts in society to live in (PDF-alert). To his surprise it turned out quite [...]

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Montytube

Tired of the low quality rips of their work on youtube, Monty Python launched their own channel on youtube with the promise to upload high quality versions of their most popular clips.

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Ricardo Queso

Sunday …

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back …

I‘ ve been away from my blog and my computer in general for a while in my own time. Renovating an appartment does that to you. But now it is nearing completion.
Some of it is really worthwhile, some of it are small details. Anyhow, I hope to increase my postcount a bit more from now [...]

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spread the word

Hello leaders of scientology, we are anonymous. We hope you are having as much fun with this as we are. As you know, we are still here, and with every passing day your failure to account for the fraud and abuse exposed by our campaign becomes more evident to the media, [...]

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working out

It started out like this:

and then the first cracks in the plaster appeared:

soon it looked like this:

and then the ceiling turned out to contain also some cracks:

Some rewiring of the electrics:

some more rewiring needed:

and this was the magic box …

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chrome is the best

Chrome is the best browser out there.
Yes, I do seriously mean it! No, it’s technically not the best, nor in form and looks, nor in functionality.
After test driving it I can call a list of great stuff:

blazing fast, especially in javascript rich pages [and spawns processes like there is no tomorrow]
it feels lightweight [on a [...]

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chrome!

Chrome it is!
I just downloaded it and tried to run it with this disappointing message:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.
Some googling around brought me to this blog that had all links neatly ordered.
Seems the problem exists for users of Symantec Endpoint Protection (aptly abbreviated SEP).
Even without this [...]

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chrome?

Seems another competitor is about to enter the arena …

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