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Holy Flying Shoes Batman

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Quite apart from being the most entertaining news story in ages, the shoe throwing attack on US President George Bush Jr is generating some of the funniest r...

Time To Leave Flickr

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Yahoo have ended the employment of George Oates - the guy who designed the Flickr interface, and along with Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, made Flick...

Artwork And Censorship

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While surfing around the various communities on LiveJournal earlier today, I kept tripping over various art or photographic post labelled “NSFW” - “Not Safe ...

Aniston Be Thy Name

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I know, I know… this post lowers the bar from the usual posts about programming, life, stress, gadgets and so on - but just look at her.

Fuji Finepix J10

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The postman finally delivered our new camera earlier today - a tiny Fuji Finepix J10 - it replaces the small Sony W55 that I lost somewhere in Oxfordshire a ...

Powered By Chocolate

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I have finally arrived at work this afternoon after attending our youngest child’s nativity play this morning, getting in trouble with HR for not updating my...

The End Of An Era

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I confirmed this morning with my boss in London that I will definitely be finishing next Friday.

The London Odyssey Comes To An End

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Two years ago I visited a client of my employer in central London for five days to hand over the codebase of a huge project myself and two colleagues had wor...

Revisiting Livejournal

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Many moons ago I was a member of LiveJournal (and blogger, and wordpress, and twitter, and identi.ca, and MySpace, and Vox). Invariably the reason for joinin...

Participating In The Twitter Universe

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Since Twitter first appeared on the internet, I have been a somewhat reluctant participant. I’ve somehow amassed over 200 followers, who probably don’t take ...