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1. John Pawlenko
   May 27th 2004 12:00

   Good stuff.

   I was wondering what to put all the hyperactivity on the news front down to. I figured it might be coffee-overdose or the fact that summer seems to have finally arrived.

   I’ll make sure to look up Lorna’s Shorts on a regular basis.

   John

2. Andrew
   May 29th 2004 11:40

   Oo does it have it’s own rss feed?

3. Trevor
   May 29th 2004 12:29

   No free lunch etc etc – people would rejig RSS to cut out my credit. Also copy-pasting Javascript is easier for people who aren’t used to reformatting XML

4. The Prandial Post
   June 29th 2004 13:02 The appliance of purchase
   Here’s an oddity, via Lorna’s Shorts: New shop opens for Ecuadorian immigrants to send electric appliances to people back home. According to El Periodico here (Spanish only, pic), the shop doesn’t sell for you to take things home. Instead, the Ecuadori…