Shopping yesterday, I compared prices of bottled water at my local Sainsbury's (a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom). The Highland Spring was exceptionally troublesome. I took a snapshot with my mobile phone. I wonder what the shelf-fillers made of it.
Note: the suffix p is "pence" (plural of penny)
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P J Brown made a passing reference to "software magpies" in one of his books. The "noisy and mischievous" aspect of the bird is less relevant here than its tendency to take and collect things, particularly shiny new things. I thought it would suit the eclectic nature of my taste and interests in software, and the "borrowing" characteristic of Free Software.
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