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You can't make it up CXXIV - climate change threatens to end 'meaning' in the Milky Way
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19 oct 21 |
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/19/earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop26
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You can't make it up CXXIII - record cold at South Pole
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05 oct 21 |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/south-pole-posts-most-severe-cold-season-on-record-a-surprising-anomaly-in-a-warming-world/ar-AAP3cS0
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You can't make it up CXXII - "women must be heard on climate", say rights groups
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26 sep 21 |
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/25/cop26-women-must-be-heard-on-climate-say-rights-groups
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Difficulties with Github's new security system
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21 sep 21 |
EDIT 17 Oct: Found the solution here: mycyberuniverse.com/how-fix-fatal-authentication-failed-for-https-github-com.html
I created a new empty repo https://github.com/pdxrod/tensorflow-towardsdatascience
I used this page to... read more
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You can't make it up CXXI - climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’
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20 sep 21 |
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/20/climate-crisis-leaving-millions-at-risk-of-trafficking-and-slavery
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Michael Gove humour, Priti Patel looks for hackers
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11 sep 21 |
From the Daily Telegraph -
Gove is learning to his cost that we ve lost the art of debating
They seek to suck all the joy out of life, these new Puritans.
Consider the Lib Dem response to the airing on Monday of a few old (1987... read more
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How to remove all lines in a file which consist of a single letter
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09 sep 21 |
zsh
cat file1 | grep -v \^.\$ > file2
mv file2 file1
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You can't make it up CXX - climate change deniers like those who denied the slave trade
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07 sep 21 |
Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade - Nick Cohen
It's perhaps surprising that this particular hack should continue to contribute to "denier creep" - the gradual spread of the terms 'denier'... read more
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Why John Cleese is right about cancel culture… and the Left just doesn’t get it - Telegraph
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26 aug 21 |
MICHAEL DEACON
PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER
25th August 2021
In Cancel Me, commissioned by Channel 4, John Cleese vows to investigate 'all the aspects of so-called political correctness'
When it came out in 1979, Monty Python t... read more
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You can't make it up CXIX - Penn State teaches the link between climate change and white nationalism
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23 aug 21 |
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-offers-course-on-white-nationalism-in-the-age-of-climate-change/ Whoever thought up this course at Penn State should be in the state pen
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You can't make it up CXVIII - the climate emergency IS the fault of men
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03 aug 21 |
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You can't make it up CXVII - the climate emergency is not the fault of men
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27 jul 21 |
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New York Times: greens sabotage Exxon
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11 jul 21 |
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Telegraph: children should never have been locked down
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07 jul 21 |
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You can't make it up CXVI - record cold in southern hemisphere locations
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29 jun 21 |
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You can't make it up CXV - Miami condo collapse prompts questions over role of climate change
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29 jun 21 |
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Backreferences in VIM
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16 jun 21 |
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An invaluable page for people with Turkish keyboards
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30 apr 21 |
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Telegraph & Spectator articles
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29 apr 21 |
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Magellan and me
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27 apr 21 |
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A new M1 Mac, and trouble installing Tensorflow on it
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24 apr 21 |
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This is not an April Fools' Day Joke
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01 apr 21 |
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The Dixie Chicks
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18 mar 21 |
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You can't make it up CXIV - Facebook's efforts to educate us on climate change
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08 mar 21 |
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You can't make it up CXIII - Beckett play 'Happy Days' is about gender, race, and... climate change
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23 feb 21 |
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You can't make it up CXII - how the rich use climate change to divide us
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22 feb 21 |
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Trouble with a credit card buying the music of Henry Cow
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17 feb 21 |
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You can't make it up CXI - increasingly cold winters in the USA caused by global warming
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17 feb 21 |
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Software Development by Random Guesswork
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14 feb 21 |
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An impressive customer review of the book "German Atrocities 1914: A History of Denial"
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08 feb 21 |
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Another warming period bites the dust
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28 jan 21 |
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When you have a large piece of text you need dividing into chunks of size N
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22 jan 21 |
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The best critique of Civilisation yet
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20 jan 21 |
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Happy Holidays from Ruby
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27 dec 20 |
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How to kill Atom on a Mac
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27 dec 20 |
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Geyikbayırı
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09 nov 20 |
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Yukseller Otel, Cavdir
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25 oct 20 |
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Ephesus
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20 oct 20 |
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You can't make it up CX - pot, kettle, black
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18 oct 20 |
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Plane to Istanbul - boat to Bandirma - bike to Balikesir - bus to Izmir
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13 oct 20 |
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You can't make it up CVIIII - fires caused by white Christian supremacy
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05 oct 20 |
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You can't make it up CVIII - "Covid-19 lockdown will have 'negligible' impact on climate crisis"
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08 aug 20 |
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I didn't set off for a bike tour at all
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07 aug 20 |
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At Reykjavik campsite
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05 aug 20 |
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Reykjavik after an overnight flight
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03 aug 20 |
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Greenwich mean time has shifted to Iceland
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01 aug 20 |
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You can't make it up CVII - woman won't have children because climate change
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09 jul 20 |
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You can't make it up CVI - the Guardian forgets what it blamed the fire in Paradise CA on
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16 jun 20 |
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You can't make it up CV - 'when is the next ice age due?'
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18 may 20 |
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How to get rid of a virus in Google Chrome
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15 may 20 |
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I finally found the bike route from Joshua Tree CA to Las Vegas NV
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27 jan 20 |
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You can't make it up CIV - climate change is more important than nuclear weapons
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07 jan 20 |
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"You go back, Jack, do it again": Yucca Valley for the new year
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02 jan 20 |
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You can't make it up CIII - warmest December in Moscow since 1886
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29 dec 19 |
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Back in the Tower District of Fresno
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21 dec 19 |
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You can't make it up CII - "Few media pundits could tell Karl Popper from Mary Poppins": Clive James
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12 dec 19 |
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The four horsemen of the software apocalypse - Docker, AWS, Node and React
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18 nov 19 |
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You can't make it up CI - Irish prime minister sees benefits in global warming
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05 nov 19 |
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You can't make it up C - I came out here because we’re all going to die soon if we don’t!
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21 sep 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXX - when you realise you haven't used a valid Roman numeral since XCIX
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14 aug 19 |
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How to get rid of all those pesky hashrockets =>
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09 aug 19 |
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Guess what happened to my comment in the Guardian explaining why free speech is not just for bigots
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23 jun 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXIX - Peter Ridd compares universities with the excuses for Allied bombing
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22 jun 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXVIII - a victory for sceptical science
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18 apr 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXVII - suicide to protest climate change
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18 apr 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXVI - warming is not all bad
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05 apr 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXV - Greenpeace vs. one of its founders
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05 apr 19 |
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Farewell Scott Walker
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31 mar 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXIV - climate change guru accuses Trump of Stalinism
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21 mar 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXIII - you'll never meet a fascist who cares about climate change
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21 mar 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXII - an old but good quote from a climate scientist
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06 mar 19 |
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Spring is here, O Spring is here...
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06 feb 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXXI - heat is climate, cold is just weather
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31 jan 19 |
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Is this the most retarded email from a recruiter ever?
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28 jan 19 |
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I got back on my bike - and I began to pray...
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04 jan 19 |
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RESTful Java is anything but
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03 jan 19 |
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Jobs
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02 jan 19 |
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You can't make it up XCXXX - the "depravity" of global warming sceptics
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31 dec 18 |
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Germany was the least connected place I'd been
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27 dec 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXVIIII - the first revolt against the global warming establishment
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11 dec 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXVIII - "we are on a trajectory similar to the Permian"
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07 dec 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXVII - a leading questionnaire on global warming
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29 nov 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXVI - a clear example of a climate change warrior against freedom
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16 nov 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXV - global warming causes mass immigration
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07 nov 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXIV - global warming is particularly bad in US national parks
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27 sep 18 |
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Riddle: I just bought food cheap in Iceland, because food is so expensive in Iceland
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13 aug 18 |
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Even the boat from Hook of Holland is nice
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05 aug 18 |
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A bike crash - I'm unhurt, but the back wheel is twisted
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02 aug 18 |
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Dutch people are incredibly nice
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26 jul 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXIII - "new feminist fight against climate change"
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25 jul 18 |
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Sure enough, I saw the Croatia game, and we lost
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23 jul 18 |
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If I keep missing the matches, will England keep winning?
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06 jul 18 |
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More about Denmark
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04 jul 18 |
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I don't know why it's called Bad Barmstedt - it's actually quite good
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30 jun 18 |
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Back in the GDR
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21 jun 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXII - Grenfell tragedy may have been partly caused by "carbon reduction"
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21 jun 18 |
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Linkedin is as retarded as ever
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08 jun 18 |
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Vietnam is more connected than Vienna
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02 jun 18 |
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Camping at Neue Donau after a huge meal
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01 jun 18 |
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Attempting to camp in Austria
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30 may 18 |
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You thought you'd escaped from the Maven Java dependency tool...
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17 may 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXXI - a story which puts current climate change in perspective
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07 may 18 |
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The fall of Da Nang in 1975 was like the evacuation of Toulon in 1793
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30 apr 18 |
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Vung Tau
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22 apr 18 |
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The War Remnants Museum
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17 apr 18 |
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Ho Chi Minh City
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15 apr 18 |
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Last day in Dalat
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10 apr 18 |
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Dalat after four days
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09 apr 18 |
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Buon Ma Thuot to Dalat
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05 apr 18 |
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Phu Tuc to Buon Ma Thuot
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31 mar 18 |
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E254: Cannot allocate color error in vim
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29 mar 18 |
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Pleiku to Phu Tuc and some real barbecued duck
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28 mar 18 |
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To Pleiku over the Mang Yang pass
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25 mar 18 |
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Phu Cat to An Khe
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23 mar 18 |
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From Quang Ngai to Binh Dinh
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20 mar 18 |
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Son My (My Lai)
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15 mar 18 |
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Da Nang and Hoi Na
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12 mar 18 |
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Hue day two
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10 mar 18 |
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In which he continues his exploration of Vietnam
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09 mar 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXX - evolution takes millions of years
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02 mar 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXIX - first commercial tanker crosses arctic sea route in winter
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13 feb 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVIII - a climate change contradiction in a software talk
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09 feb 18 |
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John Perry Barlow
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08 feb 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVII - Alaska is warming - and that's a bad thing
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01 feb 18 |
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Yee-haw!
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17 jan 18 |
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The joy of bitcoind
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16 jan 18 |
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Installing Ubuntu Linux on an old Mac Air
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10 jan 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVI - the Guardian is back on form with the headline of the year
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23 dec 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXV - the Guardian has a reasonable article
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09 dec 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXIV - if the warming don't get you, the acid will
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27 nov 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXIII - climate change is responsible for child brides in South Asia
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27 nov 17 |
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London mayor Sadiq Khan bans Uber
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22 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXII - if you think Nazis are bad, try being a climate skeptic in the Bay Area
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14 sep 17 |
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Avoid Sriphat Medical Center in Chiang Mai
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12 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXI - Jennifer Lawrence and the hurricanes
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11 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCX - global warming adds to Afghanistan's woes
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28 aug 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIX - volcanoes cause Antarctic ice to melt
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13 aug 17 |
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And yet another reason...
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11 jul 17 |
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Another reason to support Uber
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28 jun 17 |
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Uber Über Alles
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20 jun 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVIII - global warming study postponed because of ice
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14 jun 17 |
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Nepal
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17 may 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVII - the March for Science - the corruption of science by the left wing
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23 apr 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVI - a scientific measure of sea level rise: "worrisome"
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14 apr 17 |
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You can't make it up XCV - the Guardian insults the intelligence of the global warming movement
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31 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIV - global warming helped cause Brexit
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25 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIII - ocean warming is accelerating - advanced computer models
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14 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCII - global warming explains heat, cold, drought, floods...
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19 feb 17 |
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You can't make it up XCI - climatologist compares scepticism to Soviet pseudo-science
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06 feb 17 |
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You can't make it up XC - the global warming shell game in a nutshell
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20 dec 16 |
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Phoenix Life Assurance company nightmare
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08 dec 16 |
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Remember when MySql for Rails on Mac was easier than PostgreSQL?
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02 dec 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIX - U.S. Puts Climate Denier in office, Climate Change Action In Limbo
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13 nov 16 |
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Three strikes
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10 nov 16 |
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Nationalism isn't the main cause of war today
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16 oct 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVIII - climate change affects people differently based on ‘gender identity’
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04 oct 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVII - another comment not deleted in the Guardian
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04 oct 16 |
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Another funny example of an online ad involving Muslims
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01 sep 16 |
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The Guardian shows its true colours
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03 jul 16 |
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My favourite picture from Britain's EU referendum
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24 jun 16 |
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A comment NOT deleted in the Guardian
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25 may 16 |
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A mistaken advert on Youtube
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09 may 16 |
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Climbing at Ton Sai
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22 apr 16 |
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Me on Huayna Potosi in Bolivia and some locals
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22 apr 16 |
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The refutation of morality
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19 apr 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVI - DOJ has discussed prosecuting "climate change deniers"
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13 mar 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXV - magazine publishes hoax "feminist glaciology" paper
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06 mar 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIV - climatologists clarify catastrophe deferment
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01 mar 16 |
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Elvis Costello's Puns
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20 feb 16 |
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Brexit
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20 feb 16 |
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The best article about conspiracy pseudo-theories I've ever read
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16 feb 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIII - Counterpunch gives in to groupthink
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04 feb 16 |
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How to install the Phoenix framework
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29 jan 16 |
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No wonder the Middle East is such a mess
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07 jan 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXII - extreme weather events and WMDs
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28 dec 15 |
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Climbing at Crazy Horse Buttress near Chiang Mai
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19 dec 15 |
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Hanoi-Chiang Mai - 3000 kilometres without a flat tyre
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13 dec 15 |
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The Guardian's worst act of censorship yet
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08 dec 15 |
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A month without the internet
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02 dec 15 |
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Lies about Vietnam
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02 dec 15 |
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The Vinh Moc tunnels and a US Navy recruiting slogan
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05 nov 15 |
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Phong Nha
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30 oct 15 |
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Thanh Hoa to Ky Lien via Vinh and Ha Tinh
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26 oct 15 |
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Quan Hoa to Thanh Hoa
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23 oct 15 |
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Mai Chau to Quan Hoa
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21 oct 15 |
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A holocaust survivor and some cute kids in Son La
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18 oct 15 |
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Potential rock-climbing near Tuan Giao
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16 oct 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXXI - theregister.co.uk's Freeman Dyson scoop
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14 oct 15 |
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Dien Bien Phu
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13 oct 15 |
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Stuck inside of Lai Chau with the Dien Bien Phu Blues again
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09 oct 15 |
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A ride halfway to Sa Pa
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03 oct 15 |
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Country roads between Yen Bai and Lao Cai
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02 oct 15 |
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Yen Bai and a typical taxi driver
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01 oct 15 |
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One of those days when everything goes wrong...
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30 sep 15 |
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Vinh Phuc
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29 sep 15 |
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The road from Ha Long to Viet Tri
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29 sep 15 |
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Climbing with Asia Outdoors
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26 sep 15 |
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Re-reading the history of post-WWII Vietnam
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21 sep 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXX - the latest attempt by the global warming movement to jail dissidents
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19 sep 15 |
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Deep water soloing
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19 sep 15 |
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Hanoi to Haiphong
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