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Old World Journalism

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Inbetween doing other things this evening, I’ve been listening to “This Week In Tech” - a quite wonderful podcast I discovered while commuting into and out o...

Impressive Spider Web Comes Crashing Down

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I just wandered into the kitchen and discovered a 2ft diameter spider web hanging across the room - suspended on a masterpiece of spider architectural achiev...

I Could Think Of Better Things To Do With A Monday

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Today finds me revising for a professional exam at work. It was going to be on Wednesday, but that’s now skidded out to Thursday. It remains to be seen when ...

Hippo Remote

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One of my colleagues just informed me he purchased an app for his iPhone called “Hippo Remote”.

Bedtime Story

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Listening to eldest daughter read - tonight’s book is “Granny’s Great Escape” (I think). Listening to the kids read works two ways - they get better at readi...

400 Posts

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Not exactly the most interesting landmark to celebrate, but I can confirm that I have posted 400 times to Tumblr since re-booting the tumblog a few months ag...

10 Minute Break From Revision

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Brain has had enough today for revision just went through about a third of the exam subject areas, skimming the books - looking up anything new, or that I ju...

The One Where The Blackberry Lunched Itself

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While sitting on the bedroom floor of our eldest daughter earlier this evening, the Blackberry popped up a notice reminding me that FourSquare had a pending ...

Google Analytics

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Just discovered I have no analytics data for the last few days for Tumblr because (a) Tumblr lost all the custom theme fields the other day for no apparent r...

The Social Network

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Mostly thanks to our wonderful friends Emma and Andrew who babysat for us this evening, we escaped to the cinema for the first time in three years tonight, i...