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RavenBlog - Archive June 2001 - DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
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Archives: Last 4 Days. Friday 29 June 2001. Now uses a slightly more pleasant display that allows for multiple selection, and such. Other advances coming soon, I expect. [23:47]. Another one of those mental notes. The function for making a window behave a little like a dialog box, when it comes to controls, is IsDialogMessage(). Which makes it hard to find in the help files, since who would look under "Is" for such a thing? If you're in the UK, or anywhere else that has Wrigleys Airwaves chewing gum.
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RavenBlog - Archive September 2001 - DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
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Archives: Last 4 Days. Friday 28 September 2001. The PSU I got, incidentally, was a 300W thing made by Antec. It's nice and quiet, and has lots of connectors, so my current comment on Antec, if you happen to be wanting a PSU, is that I recommend them. I'm sure nobody is actually interested at all - in reality, this is just a note-to-self for when the PSU of another machine dies a death. [08:38]. Thursday 27 September 2001. Another step in the ironically entitled Operation Enduring Freedom. A splendid sit...
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RavenBlog - Archive June 2002 - DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
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Archives: Last 4 Days. Saturday 29 June 2002. Err A television advertisement for getting your organs ripped out. Just said something like this: "Only 5% of people who would benefit from a heart transplant will get one. 20% of people who are waiting for a heart transplant will die before they get one." So, um, what happens to the other 75%. Isn't a bad deal. [14:57]. Dubya is getting his colon scanned for cancer. Did they make and air the advertisement within a 9 hour period? Tom Stoppard defiles Shakespe...
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upsideclone [The Eye of the Beholder]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_06_07.php
The Eye of the Beholder. He was walking down a busy street. His skin was pale, as though he never saw the sun, and his clothing seemed old and dirty. The people waling by ignored him entirely, concerned only with themselves. He tried to look at each of their faces, interested in them all, but there were too many. He soon gave up and focused on the path ahead. Upsideclone is now shuttered and no longer taking submissions. 6dec2002 The Face of The Future. Anonymous 1nov2002 Winning the Lottery. 1mar2002 He...
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upsideclone [The Campaign for Real Advertising]
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The Campaign for Real Advertising. I used to rearrange them all into each other's prepaid envelopes and post them back, I used to slip CAMRAD recruitment leaflets in for the mailroom staff, but I refuse to surrender my time to them, any more. I drop the envelopes into the recycling bin by the door, and step out into the soft September rain, collar up, head down. And enough people still take it at face value, and pass it on. The appeal of preformed opinions to impress your friends with - all the more ...
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upsideclone [The end of history]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_06_14.php
The end of history. The history-howitzer nearest me slams back into its recoil shielding. Good technicians swarm around it. Check the grammar, clean the swarf of punctuation from around the muzzle, and press the small of their backs into the velvet bulwarks to heave it back to the edge of the battlement. Dolly back. Fade to black. Sorry - you'll need some context. I forget. It's all so familiar to me. Good operates this side of the front. It's hard to believe, when the only thing both sides agree on is h...
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upsideclone [I wanna shake your hand]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_05_31.php
I wanna shake your hand. Yet, on the other hand (the left one this time), what of that poor egghead in his laboratory or thinkery or wherever it is that such people do their ovicapitular things? I could not live with the guilt of depriving that man of his daily bread, and besides, he might find out where I live, so from now on I shall be keeping my hands to myself. Upsideclone is now shuttered and no longer taking submissions. 6dec2002 The Face of The Future. Anonymous 1nov2002 Winning the Lottery. 26oct...
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upsideclone [Family Life]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_07_12.php
Sure the parents can laugh at them and enjoy them now, but when they get older it'll be different. The youngest one that was carrying the box will start smoking pot in a few years, maybe when he's eleven or twelve. He'll get killed when he's seventeen and had too much to smoke at a party and wraps his car around a lightpost. Pity. He'll cry himself to sleep until he's thirteen. Pity. The boy leaves for a party a few hours later. Upsideclone is now shuttered and no longer taking submissions. 19apr2002 A T...
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upsideclone [How the people came to stop thinking]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_08_16.php
How the people came to stop thinking. In the dawn time the first tribe wandered all over the wide lands, seeing all the magical things there were in those days. They saw the mountain that smokes, the land that walks and the grass that grows on the sea. When they had finished walking all over the wide lands they stopped to talk about all they had seen. Then the little boy who asks questions said 'Why does the smoking mountain smoke? Why does the land walk? And how does the grass grow on the sea? So the fi...
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upsideclone [The Face of The Future]
http://www.upsideclone.com/2002_12_06.php
The Face of The Future. Their skin. Their perfect, perfect skin. Yielding. Velvety. Flawless. In the website's FAQs there was actually quote from someone who wanted a LivingDoll mask. They didn't make them, as it happened. Geoff spotted a niche in the market, and sidled absentmindedly in. Geoff got cooking. This would be the cosmetic to end all cosmetics: no more foundation, concealer, no eggwhite-textured potions dabbed under the eyes, no more Jorene Creme Bleach. Just paper over the cracks. PseuDermis ...
