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Tonight, as of the publishing time of this post:

It’s interesting how each outlet chooses to represent the same story thorough the headline.

Also, Radar O’Reilly is alive and well.

Gone with his wind…

A PUB regular has been barred from his favourite Dunfermline boozer – for indiscriminate wind breaking.

Management at the bar say Stewart Laidlaw “revels” in his bouts of flatulence and other punters have almost been sick after exposure to the foul smells.
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The James Street pub’s owner says the stench has become unbearable since Scotland’s smoking ban came in last year but suspects drinkers could have been breathing in the waft for years before without noticing it.
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“Other people have dropped handbags, shall we say. But when everybody’s choking and I come out with the spray and say don’t do it again, they will appreciate that and stop it.”
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“He will clear the pub out usually and he thinks it is very funny.”
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“You can’t just have one guy sitting there farting his day away and nobody else coming in.”

Dropping handbags? That’s one I haven’t heard. Oh, and that’s the farter himself in the picture. It looks like he’s letting one go as the picture is taken. But it gets worse:

“The smoking ban has raised a lot of issues. Some people are arriving in premises with serious cases of BO and you have to deal with that. “

Thanks, anti-smoking jerks!

A few weeks back, this page revealed that you can use a sqlite command from the Terminal to clear some of the database cruft from your Apple Mail envelope index. Most people reported a speed gain while running Mail as a result of this operation, and almost everyone reported a reduction in size of their envelope index database as well.

Safari uses a sqlite database for its RSS feeds. Since I use Safari as my RSS reader, I decided to try the sqlite command from Mail against my Safari database. The command did shrink the database, and it feels faster loading feeds and sorting them, but I have no objective evidence to point to any quantitative speed improvement. It did not damage my RSS feed database or Safari itself.

I’m posting this command hoping that others will try it and let me know their results.

Steps for cleaning up your Safari RSS database:

1. Quit Safari
2. Open Terminal, and enter the following:
   sqlite3 Library/Syndication/DatabaseX vacuum
   where X may be a number

That’s all there is to it. If you find this useful or have something to say, don’t hesitate to comment.

Orville Redenbacher has been exhumed and reanimated and reprogrammed to star in ads performing bad jokes. That’s abuse of a corpse, if you ask me.