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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey’s most famous Time Lord. From the very first – William Hartnell in 1963 – to the very last – Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie – the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound.
The BBC are “No Longer Updating This Page
We have To Get a T.A.R.D.I.S. for Blue Mars, but what am I thinking Blue Mars Is bigger on the inside than on the Outside it is a Time And Relative Dimension In Space
T.A.R.D.I.S.
So I made A Start
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The Day The Word Fuck Disappeared
by Michael Scully
The day the word fuck disappeared
Every print of Scarface melted.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Oxford English Dictionary
Became obsolete.The day the word fuck disappeared
D.I.Y. enthusiasts
Wore black bandages.The day the word fuck disappeared
The word shit
Went into hiding.The day the word fuck disappeared
Hiberno-english
Mourned an amputation.The day the word fuck disappeared
A worrying proportion of the population
Were struck completely dumb.The day the word fuck disappeared
Docks, building sites, housing estates,
school playgrounds, sports stadiums
and pubs were eerily silent.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Amalgamated Union of Asterisks
Went on strike for higher wages.The day the word fuck disappeared
The prim and purse-lipped
Had a weak tea party and an early night.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin became
The Selected Poems of Philip Larkin.The day the word fuck disappeared
A million prayers (what the fuck are you doing to me now)
Drifted a little off course.The day the word fuck disappeared
Sex was a little more decorous.
Less fun.
Mick
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a concrete barrier erected by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany) that completely encircled the city of West Berlin, separating it from East Germany, including East Berlin. The Wall included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses.
The separate and much longer inner German Border (the IGB) demarcated the border between East and West Germany. Both borders came to symbolize the Iron Curtain between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc.
Prior to the Wall’s erection, 3.5 million East Germans had avoided Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and escaped into West Germany, many over the border between East and West Berlin. During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated the GDR from West Berlin for more than a quarter of a century.[1] After its erection, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with estimates of the resulting death toll varying between around 100 and 200.
During a revolutionary wave sweeping across the Eastern Bloc, the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were chipped away by a euphoric public and by souvenir hunters; industrial equipment was later used to remove almost all of the rest. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990.
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I remember November 9th 1989. I cried and cried tears of joy. One of the most abomiinable features of Human Society, A Wall built solely to divide, was being torn down. I was there in spirit with bloody nails ripping at the hateful concrete, with my brothers and sisters.
Lassen Sie Gott mein Richter sein, ich stirbt, um es zu stoppen wieder geschehend.
Ich bin ein Bürger von Berlin auch
Philip
But The Future BECKONS!
The Bamboo Tower
Does BABEL spring to mind? Lol, But we are not thrown into confusion by our structures. Let us continue to tear down the old ones and REACH FOR THE SKY!
The Burj Dubai
The Internet
Hi Graham, Hi Gill, Hi Inty
Change Your Mind ~ Change The World
Alan Emtage, (born November 27, 1964) conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.
- The author originally wanted to call the program “archives,” but had to shorten it to comply with the Unix world standard of assigning programs and files short, cryptic names such as grep, cat, troff, sed, awk, perl, and so on.
A native of Barbados, and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage, he attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to 1983 (and in 1981 becoming the owner of a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the Barbados Scholarship.
I cycled across London to get 16k of RAM upgrade
In 1983 he entered McGill University in Montreal, Canada studying for an honors Bachelor’s degree in computer science which was followed by a Master’s degree in 1987 from which he graduated in 1991. Emtage was part of the team that brought the first Internet link to eastern Canada (and only the second link in the country) in 1986. In 1989 while a student and working as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science, Emtage conceived and implemented the original version of the Archie search engine, the world’s first Internet search engine and the start of a line which leads directly to today’s Altavista, Yahoo!, and Google.
45 years old in a couple of weeks.
Some Stats:
- 105,170,327 active web surfers in the US
- In Europe 105,096,093
- Asia 704,213,930 Internet users
- Latin America and The Caribbean 175,834,439
I make that 2,180,629,578 oh, and I’ve got two computers so 2,180,629,579.
To Get The Ball Rolling……
To Get The Ball Rolling……
C O N I F I G U R A T I O N
Tullamore Shopping Centre
Tullamore Shopping Centre
By The Way You may have trouble with the Links ~ The Internet is playing “Catch Up” With me ~lol~
The Dragon Phoenix
You’re Going To Reap Just What You Sow
And Who Would Win?
oohh Thanks BeBo
TWTWTW
- 1. Opened The Shop at 16 Patrick Street
- 2.Windows 7 “How Do I love thee?”
- 3. Worked on my WeddingsOnTheInternet.com forecast and will only lose €146,556 in the first year.
Bless This House
- 4.Hired a cleaner and a Graphic Designer, Should be able to take over Russia
btw, Set Up What I Found In The Attic .com for a mate
Well eBay is a bit unfriendly
- 5. Planned Evening sessions. Nite Club on Saturdays for 16 year olds called WTF? REM: Invite BeardyMan ;
Monday Nite is Movie Nite Called “That’ll Do Pig” opening with “Babe” Theme song Leonard Cohen ” Chelsea Hotel…You got away, didn’t you, Babe… ” . Show “Cool Hand Luke” on Good Friday.Friday Nite is the Casino Called “Phil’s Café Americain” Casablanca playing in the background, roulette wheel for charity “Ravens Kiss”Over 30’s only.
- The Place looks Gorgeous. Installed LCD screen in the window mirroring the main inside! WOW! Applied to the local peoples bank for €2k.
Invited Michelle to the opening on Guy Fawkes Night (404 years fighting Terrorism)
The First Lady
- Ordered a server for 16PatrickStreet.com, 8 gigs of RAM! On Interbnet backbone with 1,800 gigs of bandwidth
- 6……. >
Oh dear. Got beaten up (alledgedly) by the owner’s son (alledgedly) and a Thuggee…Got thrown out into the street. Called The Cops but
Locks changed. Electricity turned off. All is Dark. Oh dear- Sorry, You must be getting bored…..
Sorry
btw- Set up my Dunne Stores LapTop, plugged into The Internet Thingy
not happy with the cops so complained sort of…
Beefed everything up a tad by adding a criminal lawyer and my doctor into the mix….
Popped out for lunch and had a very nice salad with fetta cheese, loads of olives, tikka chicken and Bruschetta on the side The chef makes his own salad dressing. I mean, forget Ceaser…..
btw my #irishthursday twitter is so funny…ha ha ha
Thought i better be creative to re-charge the old batteries so made this:Needed Xtra Gears
- I’m Getting a bit bored now! So long story short, escated to justice Victims of Crime
made a video
- 8?. The perp dumped my PC in the street
So put the top down and picked it up.Sprayed the PC to match the car, damned paparazzi are everywhere
drove home and plugged it in……I can get on with Tony Starks GUI now
rotfcmao
Wrote a short story called “Here There Be Dragons”
Scary
Dragon Queen in Civvies
Dragon Queen After Markings
A Weyr of Dragons
A Weyr of Dragons, WoW!
A Cute REAL Sea Dragon
Can't Leave a Good Image alone can you, a?
Dude Starship
All I know is this: the ravens kiss my mouth,
the veins are tangled here,
the sea is made of blood.All I know is this: the hands reaching out,
my eyes are closed,
my ears are closed,
the sky rejects my scream.All I know is this: my nostrils drip with dreams
the hounds lap us up,
the fools laugh out,
the clock ticks out the dead.All I know is this: my feet are sorrow here,
my words are less than lilies,
my words are clotted now:
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