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V lokalni rafineriji Chevron je okoli 18.20 prišlo do eksplozije. Poročajo o dveh mrtvih. Iz rafinerije, ki je od mene oddaljena 8 km (po zraku), se vali gost črn dim. Baje smrdi po žveplu. Problem je tem, da so v bližini še elektrarna na zemeljski plin (še v izgradnji), dva plinska terminala in še ena [...]

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Recently I have had some problems with this website and it seems y hosting provider has had some problems that they are hopefully solving OK. However I don’t have that many visitors to the website so I don’t think I should really need to inform you. In fact, why am I writing this. Still doing [...]

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After being called out, out of hours, at 8pm and then just after going to bed at midnight I was awoken by the pager at 4:50 this morning. Just as I was calling the call centre my mobile went off. This was a full-on alert. The call centre told me that they received a call [...]

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Drugo soboto v maju so imeli v neki dvorani v Pembroke Dock-u (od tu kakšnih 15 min stran) avdicijo za statiste, ki naj bi igrali v junijskemu snemanju filma na lokaciji, kjer prav zdaj poteka snemanje za nekaj prizorov Harrya Potterja. Mest je bilo samo za nekaj sto, pred dvorano pa se jih je zbralo [...]

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I don’t intend to just mention when companies do bad things. It should also ne noticed when they do some good things as well. I recently bought an iPhone from O2 so I had to switch my mobile operator from T-Mobile to O2. I explained this to T-Mobile and asked them if they could send me [...]

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Danes (14. marca 2009) se je po TV in časopisju v Veliki Britaniji na dolgo in široko pisalo o najnovejšem načinu, kako bo država opazovala (beri: kontrolirala) še dodaten del našega življenja in sicer potovanje v tujino. Tu seveda Britanci ne bi bili Britanci, če bi se v to smatralo tudi potovanje v druge EU [...]

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Danes zjutraj so na Britanskih TV postajah predvajali video, ki ga je časopisna hiša The Sun posnela z novopečenima otroškima staršema. Britanija je že sicer znana kot prva v številu mladoletnih nosečnic samo ta primer te pa kar malo zmrazi. Oče je sicer star trenutno 13 let, bil pa je 12, ko je spočel otroka [...]

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Veliko hecov se je že razvilo na ta račun in ka nekaj sem jih verjetno začel sam. V večini so kar upravičeni in ravno te dni imam to srečo opazovat v praksi, ko v tej državi, v kateri trenutno živim, popadajo v stanje absolutne panike, ko jim pade bela snov iz nebes. Kot prvo ne [...]

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I had the opportunity to sample a great studio-grade professional foot pedal from a company called Line6. The machine is called a POD XT Live and was lent to me for a few days by a friend. On the website the POD XT Live is described as an »uncomplicated, gig-ready tone machine that’s portable and [...]

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Started off while it was still dark. Plan A was going to ski on Krvavec. No plan B at that time. Just as we left Cerklje there was a suspicious hold-up in the traffic which turned out to be due to the great number of cars – all heading for the same ski resort. My [...]

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After going through the fiasco of Swalec charging me 10x more through the meter reading by adding an extra decimal to my gas usage I have found out thatthe person or persons reading meters in our areas should have a comprehensive educational refresher course in meter reading. Read the article here… A few days ago [...]

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I have now managed to send off the container to the manufacturer Aerodyne in Florida. I have just driven back from Swansea where I send off the container through a DHL ServicePoint location in the Parc Tawe Staples shop. Great service, if you ask me, as you don’t have to pay a high price to [...]

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This will be my public consumer awareness post. Just for those who don’t know me, I have not lived in the UK for many years so I had no real idea how much utilities cost. Sure you can compare prices between different companies but its difficult to know, how much you spend. However I always [...]

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Ravno se je končala zaključna slovesnost Olimpijskih iger v Pekingu in oči so seveda že zazrte v London, ki bo gostil naslednje OI leta 2012. Tu se mnogi sprašujejo, kako bodo OI uspele Britancem (ker živim v Veliki Britaniji »tu« pomeni v Britaniji in ne v Sloveniji). V primerjavi s Kitajsko VB ni ravno velika [...]

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It is possible, at least if the suspicions of a hacker »Stryde Hax« a.k.a. Mike Walker are true. There is a possibility that the Chinese gymanst He Kexin that won the gold medal at the uneven bars at the Beiging olympics in 2008 was born 01-Jan-1994 and not 01-Jan-1992 as the Olympic website now states, [...]

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Če izgleda, da bom delal reklamo za WordPress, potem ste prebrali prav. Tale blog, ki ga trenutno gledate (poleti, leta gospodovega 2008), deluje v spletni aplikaciji, ki se ji reče WordPress. Blog sem začel pisati konec 2006 na Googlovem Bloggerju (a.k.a. Blogspot-u) a mi je bilo dosti omejene funkcionalnosti, ki jo je nudil Google. Kupil [...]

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I saw this somewhere on the internet and found it hilarious. I apologise to any US citizen if he/she is offended but this is really good! To The citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we [...]

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Well, its more of an orthopedic course but this makes a better title Thi splace should be about 3 hours from Haverfordwest but ended up over 4 as there was a car accident in somewelshnamedplacewithlotsoflettersandhardlyanyvowels. This was on the A40 ut before and after the accident this was one of the most enjoyable roads to [...]

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I was very surprised to hear that the British Queen Elisabeth II. is to visit Slovenia soon. The official press release can be seen HERE. The original press release on 26-Jun-2008 read: Buckingham Palace press releases ANNOUNCEMENT OF STATE VISITS TO SLOVENIA AND SLOVAKIA 26 June 2008 THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS [...]

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After a long wait and an apparent server crash (link 2)we finally have the much anticipated new browser from Mozilla. You can get a detailed how-to on the product here. Martin McDowell Firefox 3 download certificate The “big download” should have commenced at 10 am PDT but was delayed at least an hour an a [...]

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