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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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…get a silly answer. Google Maps route from New York to Dublin. See step 23. via Bart.

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So it was a nice evening last night, and inspired by Chris Gerhard’s recent video effort I decided to hand-hold my Canon IXUS 900ti and see how far I could get homewards before I filled my 2Gb SD card. All the way through the woods, and over the tank range, in turned out. As an

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Once a month I get together with my colleagues for an ad-hoc chat and lunch about anything and everything that takes our fancy; I love these occasions not just because of the geek content we discuss but also because of the observations and gossip that they bring. A few weeks ago, the conversation went a

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