Archive for August, 2005
Friday, August 26th, 2005
Random password generator. Mainly for my own use, but thought other might find it useful too. Generates varying length passwords from the set including the alphabet, upper and lower case, and numbers.
Some letters or numbers are not used, to avoid confusion in reading the results: no O, o or 0. ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
The Lancet bravely takes on the job of showing what a load of nonsense is the belief that homeopathy "works" in any provable way.
The published study (of which the link above is to the summary abstract) uses conventional scientific methods to show that there is no clinical effect from homeopathic ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
The late, great Douglas Adams hits the proverbial nail on the head:
"God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining."
Nicely put...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
The reaction of "World Leaders" to the death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been just as craven and abject as might have been expected.
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
The recent terrorist attacks in London make one, yet again, wonder how on earth religious beliefs bring people to do such things. Polly Toynbee, writing in the Guardian a few days ago, captures it well:
This is not about poverty, deprivation or cultural dislocation of second-generation immigrants. There is plenty of ...
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