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Steve Leahy
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<grin type="evil" /> What if they're all winners of the "Nobel Prize in Economics"?
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Put those down, before you cut yourself!
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The revolutionary AV gear is all connected via TCP/IP, powered via POE and is so flexibly configurable it's a real joy... although the IR receivers for hearing support are still as large & ugly as ever, and some of our hearing impaired colleagues don't like wearing them because it singles them out
January 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Also the difference between "evolutionary" and "revolutionary" tech. Analogue AV gear in teaching spaces evolved decades past where it should have been replaced...
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
To paraphrase the Divynls, it's a fine line between superceded and dead (end)
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
What's the term for something like steampunk, but based around mid 20th century technologies that didn't go anywhere?
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 AM
But more seriously, I suspect you *know* what is cool and hyper relevant, and that's what should go in your academic tome.

Then use the really cool stuff to write the type of popular history book that will sell thousands of copies in department stores in a couple of weeks.
January 12, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I can see how to trim 3750 words :-)
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I read that as "serpentinite belt", and confusion set in. All that undergraduate geology still forms an easily stirred up layer in my brain!
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Yes.
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
280 pages. ISBN 0-575-07467-1 Same page size as the paperback ultimate companion
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM
🎵 Where do you go to in Doha
For history and hiking my friends
Tell me the sites with good stories
I want to walk in history's tread
Yes I do
Ha ha ha ha

I'll see myself out :-)
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Yes sorry, it was 3003. No, make that 2003. I blame the hot weather:-)
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
To help Ben's indexing :-) My "New Discworld Companion" is a paperback, published by Gollancz in 1993, and definitely doesn't contain any content regarding "The Wee Free Men".
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM
I'm wondering if Liz's mum would have approved of this version?
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Oh, the Reader's Digest Book of the Unexplained... Liz, you're stirring up deep, dark memories... #pratchat91
January 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Ah, someone calculated the nine billion names of dog
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
"Too many notes!"
A great film. One of the first DVDs I bought, back in the days when you had to flip long films over.
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM