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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Richard Kettlewell" journal:

May 17th, 2008
04:29 pm [Link]	Crowned heads Poll #1189430 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Would you change your religion so your other half could stay 11th in line to the throne? View Answers No way 19 (61.3%) Yes, of course 6 (19.4%) I'd change religion so they couldn't 6 (19.4%) Vive la république! 20 (64.5%) Tags: links, nonsense, polls (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 14th, 2008
10:52 am [Link]	Good Communication Hall of Fame Good demolition job. Tags: geek, links (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 13th, 2008
01:24 pm [Link]	“neatly spatchcocked and self-served with lashings of smugness” Excellent hatchet-job. Tags: links (13 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 12th, 2008
07:24 pm [Link]	Poll #1186664 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Which would you go to? View Answers Prom 9 (26.5%) LAN party in formal attire 25 (73.5%) Tags: nonsense, polls (16 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 8th, 2008
01:54 pm [Link]	Useful spying tool CIA accidentally reveal they have a time machine Tags: links, nonsense (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:18 pm [Link]	Cluck Half a million chickens every day? Can that really be right? (...and the report itself, located by GDR.) Tags: birds that are neither duck nor penguin, links (18 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 6th, 2008
10:13 pm [Link]	Caminito del Rey Don't look at this if you have trouble with heights. (It's in Spain.) Tags: links (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:43 pm [Link]	New lj2news (and other tools) newstools (0.8) unstable; urgency=low * lj2news: New --start-date option * lj2news: Cope with different versions of Lynx * Fix NNTP authorization support -- Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> Tue, 6 May 2008 20:29:54 +0100 cjwatson contributed `--start-date`. Tags: geek, newstools (Leave a comment)
04:17 pm [Link]	It must be summer ...first hayfever of the year. Tags: life (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
May 5th, 2008
12:05 am [Link]	Complete the trilogy 1. A Scanner Darkly 2. Das Leben der Anderen 3. ??? Tags: films, hypothetical trilogies (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 29th, 2008
11:53 pm [Link]	Omnomnom Poll #1179972 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Shredded Wheat View Answers I could eat three 21 (56.8%) I couldn't eat three 14 (37.8%) Err, what? 2 (5.4%) I know this joke about Arthur Scargill... 9 (24.3%) Tags: nonsense, polls (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:49 pm [Link]	Lights, camera, tickybox Poll #1179901 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Remarkably, someone makes a film about you. What's it called? View Answers Who plays you? View Answers How does it end? View Answers What do the critics say? View Answers Even more surprisingly they then make a film about ewx. What's this one called? View Answers Who plays ewx? View Answers How does it end? View Answers What do the critics say? View Answers Tags: nonsense, polls (Leave a comment)
April 28th, 2008
09:12 pm [Link]	Especially when used ironically. Can we please declare a moratorium on the phrase “do you see what I did there”? Even when used ironically. Tags: comment (16 comments \| Leave a comment)
02:56 pm [Link]	Not quite iSteve The content creation business is actually tremendous. Especially when you readers click on the ads surrounding this story. Can you see them? Not without making an effort, no; my brain appears to be really good at filtering out the most popular styles of web advertizing. Unless, that is, you count the whole article as an advert: Mark Shuttleworth appears to be almost as good as Apple at getting free publicity out of journalists. Tags: comment, links (Leave a comment)
April 25th, 2008
10:10 pm [Link]	Black helicopters Poll #1177190 Open to: All, results viewable to: All If ewx said he was on a mission for the CIA... View Answers I'd believe him 6 (19.4%) I wouldn't believe him 13 (41.9%) I'd think it was a double-bluff 11 (35.5%) I'd have hired him 3 (9.7%) I'd be the target 4 (12.9%) I'd bump him off 5 (16.1%) I'd seduce him 4 (12.9%) (...you wish) 3 (9.7%) Wait, you mean he's not working for the CIA? 12 (38.7%) The CIA overthrew my government, you insensitive clod! 11 (35.5%) Tags: nonsense, polls (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 24th, 2008
11:37 am [Link]	Amazon Molly Poll #1176250 Open to: All, results viewable to: All A man needs... View Answers a fish 22 (48.9%) a bicycle 31 (68.9%) a woman 25 (55.6%) a man 22 (48.9%) a woman needs... View Answers a fish 27 (60.0%) a bicycle 31 (68.9%) a woman 23 (51.1%) a man 24 (53.3%) a fish needs... View Answers a fish 35 (81.4%) a bicycle 10 (23.3%) a woman 3 (7.0%) a man 5 (11.6%) I am... View Answers taller than ewx 4 (8.3%) about the same height as ewx 10 (20.8%) shorter than ewx 21 (43.8%) dimensionless 14 (29.2%) a fish 16 (33.3%) Tags: fish cults, nonsense, polls (25 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 22nd, 2008
09:35 am [Link]	No omnomnom Poll #1175168 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Which is a bigger disaster? View Answers The credit crisis 3 (6.5%) The food crisis 35 (76.1%) There's a credit crisis? 10 (21.7%) There's a food crisis? 7 (15.2%) My creditors starved to death due to lack of pounds of flesh! Yay! 13 (28.3%) Tags: polls (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 20th, 2008
10:40 am [Link]	Portable integer log2 using floating point primitives One of the things I needed for the user management window below was to convert from single bit in a bitmap to its bit number. (Rights are represented internally as a bitmap, but you want the bit number to index the array of GtkCheckButton widgets that represented them.) ( An unportable answer and a portable one ) Tags: disorder, geek, software development (23 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:14 am [Link]	New Disobedience window (Previous iteration.) Tags: disorder, geek (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 18th, 2008
08:39 pm [Link]	growl snarl omnomnom Poll #1173358 Open to: All, results viewable to: All You are most likely to be eaten by... View Answers a lion 6 (14.3%) a tiger 6 (14.3%) a leopard 8 (19.0%) a duck 22 (52.4%) Also: View Answers all my tigers are vegetarian 14 (35.9%) ...it makes them taste better 12 (30.8%) this poll discriminates against grues 27 (69.2%) my parents were nibbled to death by ducks, you insensitive clod! 12 (30.8%) What _are_ the ducks doing at night in the park? View Answers Tags: ducks, nonsense, polls (8 comments \| Leave a comment)

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