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…sent from the N800. 🙂

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The Nokia’s arrived as mentioned :- …and the keyboard is working nicely; as for the OS, it is everything I expect of a Debian-based distribution – underpowered by default, peppered with corrupt downloadable packages which require manual intervention using apt-get and dpkg to fix the package database which they’ve silently corrupted (hint: avoid the ‘zsh’…

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The Eye Of Argon – from the Amazon review: This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction.…

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Nokia N800 Internet Tablet as-per my friends Alan Cox … …and Richard Hughes, plus (hopefully) a iGo Stowaway Bluetooth Sierra Keyboard to aid with bulk input and mobile blogging. I carry a purse (which Valerie delightfully refers to as a man-bag; perhaps American women believe that real men ought really to keep all their ‘stuff’…

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If you’ve ever considered chucking it all and getting back to the earth a-la The Good Life, check out my friend Mel Rimmer’s blog Bean Sprouts: Now Picking: Daffodils (not to eat), young dandelion leaves, primrose flowers (to eat in salads), nettles (to eat in soup), rhubarb, free-range eggs and beansprouts (of course). Yes it’s…

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A few years ago I attended a They Might Be Giants gig in central London; it was a good evening with lots of people but one little detail annoyed me. I remember it to this day. I queued for ages, I was front and near centre of the stage, and some German student-types came up…

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I have one thing I can say about American Express’ Corporate Cards group – they are wonderful to deal with on the phone. The card may be a pain to use in the UK, but if you are a traveller and then something goes wrong with the bill, or if anything needs sorting out, the…

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I’ve written before about the word replacement game, and the power it has to defang even the most tediously trite and blatantly fearmongering stories which sometimes burst forth in the media, exposing them for the plonking warmed-over and obvious drivel that they are. Here’s the latest news, from Clearswift, mildly edited by myself. The methodology…

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Dave IM’ed me earlier today, telling me to get an earful of what he’s heard on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme at some obscene hour of the morning. It’s available for RealAudio playback (start at the 23:45 mark) and Matthew Yeomans Director of Custom Communication tells us many things about why companies need to…

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From Fark: Item: Vermont citizens contemplating seccession due to an overly controlling federal government. If only they could find some other states with similar issues, and form an organization. A Confederacy, if you will. (link) Comment: Independent Vermont can join with independent Quebec to form the Syrupean Union. via Bart.

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BBC News “Talking” CCTV cameras that tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour are to be extended to 20 areas across England. They are already used in Middlesbrough where people seen misbehaving can be told to stop via a loudspeaker, controlled by control centre staff. About £500,000 will be spent adding speaker facilities…

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Click To Play After my reasonably successful trike video I bounced it off the recumbent blog and Alan Barnard got back to me saying that a shorter version might be more palatable to the blogging public at large. So here is is, at 4m07s. 🙂

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