• ps…

    Suggestion for an exercise in humility, contentment, and gratitude for what you have: Near closing time, go down to your local, largest bulk supermarket to do your shopping – Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Wal-mart, whatever… Look, be aware of and take notice of what everyone else has in their baskets at the checkout. Repeat occasionally at

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  • Long Time No Personal Update

    Well, I could be like some other bloggers I know and write something long, thoughtful and insightful about myself, developing as a person and my plans for the future and romantic stuff and somesuch else… …but alas (a) i don’t have the time to do that, and (b) i don’t have anything applicable to share

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  • Superb Web Site – Abandoned Tube Stations

    View them at [www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk] but take a look first at British Museum station, and click on the link for the far more interesting poster. It’s an insightful read. 😎

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  • for those of a photographic bent…

    There’s a documentary on Lomography on BBC4 this evening [www.bbc.co.uk] which I shall be watching. That said, the modern/recent Lomo cameras I have handled are overpriced and crummy – hence why my Lomography is done with a 35mm Minox GT-E.

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  • market life

    ever had one of those weekends that was so good, it could have had a soundtrack by the stereophonics? i took the opportunity on saturday to blend most of the right ingredients – food, drink, people, sights, smells, motorcycles all together – in one blow-out day on saturday, lest i don’t get the occasion again

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  • http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/16/0728230.shtml?tid=187 googleblogs? bloogles? lobo goggle? bogglelogo?

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  • [cgi.ebay.co.uk] This original ntl AUP will allow you to use your internet connection to it’s full potential for 10% of the time. You don’t have to read it, see it, sign it, own it or know about it. You are still bound by it. Most ntl AUP’s have 240 sheets, this one has 280 sheets.

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  • From another blog…

    [www.lileks.com] As I said to my wife last night: did you ever think you’d live to see the day when Eastern Europe was our ally, and France and Germany our enemies? It’s a rather commonplace observation these days, but in a way that makes it all the more bizarre. …I am certain that this is

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  • what i’ve been up to

    busy busy busy lots of late nights at the office, and usually late mornings at home; i have started to get into a more organised regime for waking-up, involving the today programme on radio 4, freshground coffee and a pummeling shower. it makes life somewhat more pleasant. thursday/friday night, crashed-over at a friend’s place in

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  • “Powell fails to rule-out use of tactical nuclear weapons.”

    …he also failed to rule-out use of inflatable bananas, but it’s wise for America to get a grasp upon what it is looking at getting itself into.

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  • ps…

    Try an exercise in changing your perspective: when you get home, get down on your knees so that your head is at a child’s height from the ground, and then crawl once around the house. It’s really illuminating to literally see your world from the perspective of someone smaller than you.

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  • idea for a paper

    I’ve made a hypothesis that the reason so many of my thirty-something friends are so angst-ridden is that they’ve lost their sense of whimsy and playfulness; for instance, the following title of a white-paper struck me, over coffee this morning… Bagpuss: ur-Deity of a Solipsistic Universe. …and it just sounds so much like fun that

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