Month: July 2013

Yesterday, when I saw the footage of Kate Middleton leaving hospital as a proud new mother, I was very pleased to see she still had a bump.  It is perfectly normal for new mothers to still have a definite bump, and it was great that hers was so visible. I was therefore slightly incensed to […]

A bit of history: the post I made to mark ten years on usenet Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!diablo.theplanet.net!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!landlord!wards.force9.net.POSTED!gaines.plus.com!nobody From: Penny Gaines <pe…@gaines.plus.com> Subject: Ten years on usenet Newsgroups: misc.kids Reply-To: pe…@gaines.net Lines: 63 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <s3s6eb.da3.ln@gaines.plus.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 17:54:37 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.56.67.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk X-Trace: wards.force9.net […]

Twenty years ago, I made my first usenet post: Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.fan.warlord Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!root44!penny From: pe…@root.co.uk (Penny Gaines) Subject: Re: Demystifying vi one step further.. Message-ID: <C9p2ux.7JA@root.co.uk> Organization: UniSoft Ltd., London, England References: <1993Jun29.163526.19829@Celestial.COM> <37929@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jul01.161714.15055@Celestial.COM> <1993Jul2.210933.17371@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 13:59:19 GMT Lines: 24 In <1993Jul2.210933.17…@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> cro…@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) writes: >Ok. Why is dd […]