* Posts by mir

5 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Feb 2012

Manhattan-sized iceberg splits from glacier – and spotted FROM SPACE

mir

Re: Wot no Global Scaryness?

Or, at least, "nigh". If the end of the world were "neigh", it would be a poor look out for horses everywhere...

Reg hack survives world's longest commercial flight

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Pint

Small economy class section at the back of the upper deck?

On any proper A380 configuration, that's called "the bar"...

Lies, damn lies and election polls: Why GE2015 pundits fluffed the numbers so badly

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Re: "shy tory"

Interesting bit of analysis over at (the admittedly right-wing) Order-Order, suggesting that the Tory vote share was pretty much what was expected, but the labour vote share was low - not so much "shy tory" as "lazy labour"*, according to them.

*your offence at this term may vary depending on your particular favourite flavour of blood sucker.

Who thinks Microsoft Edge sucks? Erm, Microsoft

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Re: Hatters Will Hate!

Shurley "haters will hate"? hatters tend to hat.

Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan

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Stop

Risk?

So, how many will they lose and how much sensitive data will be on them when they do?