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Contents Of The Bag Of Holding

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If you have ever wondered what I might be carrying around in the bag slung over my shoulder, wonder no more;

The Music Of The Blogosphere

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I began wondering this evening if there was a piece of music that I could tie to writing - to blogging. Was there a piece of music that encapsulated the shar...

Goodbye Lg Cookie Hello Iphone 3G

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For the last several weeks I have been using an LG Cookie mobile phone - the one I bought to use for freelance use - in place of the iPhone which had develop...

Has The Twitter Bubble Burst

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I was going to title this post “To blog, or to microblog”, but I’m not quite sure if “to blog” is grammatically correct or not (if it is in the dictionary, I...

Returning To The World Of Apple

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This evening has been my first real chance to sit with the white Macbook - my Macbook - since it came back from being fixed by the local Applecare service ce...

Time To Blog Or Rather Lack Of It

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This blog has been woefully neglected recently, and I can see no immediate opportunity to redress that. Work, life, and the universe in general are conspirin...

Chess And Lunchtime

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I played chess on the internet at lunchtime against some anonymous person somewhere else in the world. I would love to tell you who they were, and where they...

Teaching Children To Play Chess

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One evening last week while our eldest (8 years old) was up late having her hair de-nitted (yep - the week before the summer holidays, all our kids got nits ...

Miley Cyrus Breakout

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I bought a Miley Cyrus album for our eldest daughter earlier from iTunes, which she has been listening to throughout the afternoon… while washing up and putt...