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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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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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[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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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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…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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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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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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Surreal. Sad. I remember clearly 1986 when the Challenger exploded on take-off, as a first-year Astronomy student at [www.ucl.ac.uk] going into the residence common-room and finding some Americans girls I knew, weeping, and everyone in a state of stunned shock. Yesterday I opted to skip my planned trip to London in favour of getting the…

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Suzi’s back! She got found at a local builders merchant about 500m from the house! Picked her up from the vet this morning! Following the advice of a friend, i gave her a small meal which she wolfed down and then spent the next five minutes burping. Happy++.

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I got a phone-call today from someone who may have seen Suzi at about lunchtime; an elderly guy he gave a description which was (say) a 60% match for Suzi. Looking at a photograph he wasn’t certain, but then few people are trained observers, nor learn the discipline of astronomers and birdwatchers to write down…

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