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Happy Birthday all those who are only allowed to celebrate once every four years.

To all others, if you get paid an hourly rate you are fine, however, if you get a salary, paid monthly, regardless of the hours you work, YOU WILL NOT GET PAID FOR THE WORK YOU DO TODAY.

Tough, but hey at least you are a slave only one day every four years.

Regarding Camden, I have been in the market and it breaks my heart to see what happened there. We had a meeting yesterday with people from Camden Council and some of the market’s shareholders’ representatives and it looks like something is going to happen starting from Monday onwards. What exactly nobody seems to know, but some activity at last. More updates as they come in. I may even publish some photos, depends how I feel about it.

Finally, Welcome Back Manolo!

It has been a while since we saw this original Member of The Crazy Ones here and it is a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the concern Manolo, I am doing fine. There appear to be a lot more hours in the day since I don’t have to work in Camden anymore, but it gives me an opportunity to maybe do something about this website of mine.

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Apparently Britain “suffered tremors just before 1am last night”, according to the Guardian.

I am just south of the big city, I can see the towers of Canary Wharf from the kitchen window, and I was awake at that time, too. However, I felt nothing. Not even the dogs barked.

Oh well, the story is a nice characterization of the changing readership of the Guardian, it reporting readers’ grandfather clocks shaking and pheasants starting to sing.

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After Saturday’s desaster the market is still smouldering and around 3pm smoke was still escaping from the ashes.

It now appears as if parts of the outlying buildings have collapsed on top of the market’s main hall and the whole front of that part of the High Street may be in danger of collapse. So we will not be allowed back into the market until about Wednesday (at the earliest).

We will then have to see if anything remains to be salvaged.

More updates as I get them.

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Somewhere in the middle of this armageddon is our family business. (Everybody is ok and accounted for. No need to worry.)

I guess I will not have to be at work tomorrow.

I will let the pictures speak for themselves for a while.

(Pictures were mostly nicked of news websites.)

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I am tiring of linux at the moment.

Why is it that even with all the great development etc, it still is not as intuitive and userfriendly as Windows?

Yeah, it is safer, and cheaper, but much harder to get started with, which is a big entry barrier.

Anyway, I tried the bootable CD (great feature) and did not like it as much as I thought I might.

I am sticking to Vista for the time being.

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