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#BorisIsland? Feh. We need to spin-up “London Prestwick” Airport
From 2006: A wee trip to London | News | guardian.co.uk. A budget airline may have broken its own record for dropping its passengers off at airports miles from their destinations. Customers frequently moan that Frankfurt-Hahn airport is about 75 miles from Frankfurt, or that it takes one hour and ten minutes on the bus…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-18
:: The Joy of Books – YouTube http://t.co/ieYkisaE # :: "Three Cubes Colliding" # very cool Kite http://t.co/axMzXVUE # :: Will the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi http://t.co/sOPPExx6 # :: RUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing http://t.co/GN5rTsVZ # :: Does anyone know what…
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Fish sauce, basil, cabbage, carrot, lime, sugar, prawn salad really goes well with…
Margaritas. That is all…
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Does anyone know what happened at #Winchfield station this morning? #Vandalism?
Lots of hits on my blog to an old posting about vandalism at Winchfield, and a train status update from this morning: Incident created 17/01/2012 04:55 Route affected Basingstoke, Hook, Wichfield, Fleet, Farnborough Main and Woking TOC affected South West Trains Description Trains are now running between Basingstoke and Woking following vandalism at Winchfield. However,…
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RUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing
Work is progressing fast on construction of the film set for the feature film RUSH. It would appear from the photograph’s that they are constructing the “72m run of pit garages”. Are security and safety measures properly observed at construction of the RUSH set at Blackbushe? This would appear to be in direct contravention of…
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Will the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi
Answer: Probably not – but only in as much as there won’t be an information silence for there is always the Google cache… but as Wikipedia reminds us that Marconi died… …in Rome in 1937 at age 63 following a series of heart attacks, and Italy held a state funeral for him. As a tribute,…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-17
:: "if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax" – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers http://t.co/Zt6XuHL4 # :: "AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server" #justwhatineed #not http://t.co/Fe0S7flI # @toxicnaan Do you mean Alistair Darling's QE http://t.co/bzDhE6Eo – or his…
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In protest of #SOPA and #PIPA, #Wikipedia will “go black” on January 18th, and…
…well, I made exactly the same posting about Reddit earlier in the week, and some friends’ reactions varied between meh and pointless to who? and not going to change anything. Somehow I think that a global blackout of Wikipedia: This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on…
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Three builders’ tubs labelled BURN, TRASH, RECYCLE …
…plus 1 hour and I’ve collated the paperwork for my 2011 tax return. It’s a remarkably small heap, yet the bins are quite full. I think I need to work on my filing system.