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I’m gobsmacked. I’ve just had my first audio-spam as an MP3 attachment. More, later…

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The late, great Douglas Adams posited the Shoe Event Horizon …when depressed, people tend to look down, and when they look down, they see their shoes. To cheer themselves up, they might buy themselves a new pair. Thus, in a generally depressed society, demand for shoes will rise. In the critical condition, demand for shoes

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When Oliver Morris and Hazel Ross play their violins, the normal response from those within earshot is applause. But their renditions of Mozart and Brahms prompted a less welcome reaction from officials at Manchester City Council, the threat of a noise abatement notice and a warning that their £15,000 instruments could be seized, if necessary

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Is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/13/db1301.xml – covers a little extra ground.

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Sun’s just wrapped-up its Customer Engineering (CEC 2007) conference in Las Vegas; for obvious reasons I was not able to attend, but several weeks ago I had committed to present: IT Futurology What will happen when the MySpace generation grows-up? When employees want Facebook rather than a phonebook? When your monthly report is on your

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On route back from Worcester, Bart and I detoured back into Hereford to visit Dunkertons in Pembridge, whose products I’ve drunk since the mid 1980s, but which I’ve never visited albeit that it is only moments off the A44, the arterial road into Aberystwyth which was key to my existence for several years. It was

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Bart and I visited the Rollrights last night, and found considerable damage; the warden’s hut was burned down last year and replaced with a container, but this year a stone has been stoked with a burning tyre and set on fire, and a piece has broken off of it; some muppet has more recently been

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Quote: IT changes the life, it changes processes, it changes business. Interestingly the way the presentation has to be staged, it showed how huge the possibilites are in everybody´s hand. Alec wasn´t able to make it to Las Vegas out of private reasons. Thus he had prerecord it, send to Las Vegas to a colleague

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Muffett lived a life full of cannibals and councils By Mike Pryce IT’S my considerable regret that I never got round to sitting down with Dr David Muffett. It’s too late now, because he’s dead. He died last week in hospital aged 88 and Worcestershire has lost another of its most colourful characters. No doubt

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Bart forwarded me: Five years ago, I embarked on an expedition for which I was too unfit and unprepared. My circumstances at the time were not conducive to success, yet I stepped boldly forward anyway. I made it as far as the third base camp, approximately halfway to the ultimate goal. The journey so far

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So I keep getting an exclamation mark next to a bunch of my podcast feeds, and when you hover over it, it tells you: iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you haven’t listened to any episodes for two weeks …or somesuch. If you try googling it, you will find other people who are equally

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