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A friend of mine who neither blogs nor particularly reads blogs unless prompted, provided the following advice over a couple of e-mails; I thought it may be of interest to some other people. She writes: True confession time: I own dozens of fountain pens. I have them declared on my insurance, in fact. I have

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Well this seems to be an interesting topic, so I have added a new category; for indexing purposes, here are the links to the original articles. [www.crypticide.com] [www.crypticide.com]

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Well, I’m writing this on a train at Waterloo, waiting for the pull-away homewards after a long day in London; the afternoon has been filled with a rather exciting customer gig that involved 90 minutes travel to the office, 30 minutes of e-mail, 2 hours of meeting and 2 hours of debrief and planning –

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This is one of those books which every Briton knows exists – being the BP that is suffixed to the name of prettymuch every generic medical compound sold in the UK… …but the funny thing is that I never looked it up before, and bizzarely [www.amazon.co.uk] doesn’t list it; the American site does: [www.amazon.com] British

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Suzi (the cat) is walking around looking like she’s been in a duel, or a very small knife fight – two diagonal slashes across her nose, from a scrap with another cat. Deep, but being tended and healing. The BMW is now up to 840 miles, and loosening up nicely; over the weekend I did

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Tim writes: [www.tbray.org] Would it be an oversimplification to say that Podcasting could turn the Net into a great big PVR? …to which I say, “yes”. As oversimplifications go, I suspect that is one. In the UK, we’d possibly also call it a “pseud”. In respect of the proposition: you can’t always find what you’re

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As I’ve blogged previously, I am a big fan of Banksy – I don’t generally condone graffiti but then I don’t think his work really is graffiti; the humour, style and design lift it a bit higher than mere mindless tagging. Moreover I appreciate his pointed views on (British) politicians: I’ve recently collected a couple

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Quoth my mate Steve, I was cycling in this morning, as you do, when this big limosine turns up flanked by police motorcycles. They stopped right in front of me and made me stop as well. So, I knocked on the window to tell the person inside what I thought of this and he wound

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So Jon writes For those not in the know, our friends at Google purchased Keyhole, an ASP which provides real-time satellite imagery. you can zoom in and see street detail just like a real NSA agent. (We don’t get the details the NSA/NRO agents get, but you can grab the idea.) They also have the

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how much would you pay, in order to extend your life by one hour? It’s an odd thought, but it went through my brain whilst doing a little present-shopping this morning. It’s quite a hard question to answer straightforwardly, because (a) the question implies that you know when your life would end in the first

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[blogs.motorbiker.org] Many of you don’t use a GPS and to plan your trips you use websites that map out your itinerary. One consistently great site for route planning is viaMichelin (by the producers of the Michelin Red Book and Green Book – Red is for food & hotels, green for tourist information). Well, viaMichelin just

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[www.leapsecond.com] Ten years ago I wanted to build a LED digital analog clock that would be accurate to better than one second per year — so I would have the fun of adjusting it when a leap second occurred. This simple goal resulted in a most interesting journey into electronics, horology, astronomy, test equipment, quartz

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