January 2010
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Terrorism? Or just plane silly?
So there’s this guy. In the midst of the snowmageddon which befell our proud island recently he tweeted about Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, from where he had plans to fly and which had been closed due to snow, “You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”. LOL indeed. The majority of his followers took it in...
I am here: 52.461191,-2.030172
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Reading
It’s official. I have designated 2010 to be a Year of Much Reading (tm).
What?
Well, I recently realised that not only do I not read much in the way of books any more, where once I would read almost constantly, but also I have over 120 books in my possession which are either half- or un-read. And that’s a lot of wasted tree, not to mention ink.
So, to redress the balance in this...
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Evernote
Evernote is a note making, editing and organising service. It exists, in its most basic, as a web-based service which allows users to login and create or edit notes which can then be accessed from any connected computer in the world. So far, so good. The beauty, however, lies in its applications and extensions, which make it a far more powerful means of capturing and storing text, sounds and...
Sun in the sky...you know how I feel
And so, having dispensed with the need to create a ‘first post’, and also having attended to me urgent alimentary needs with a nice bowl of soup and some Christmas cake, I can get down to the real business of ‘saying stuff what people might want to read’.
Today heralds the psychological cleansing of a new month, year and decade. And what a decade it’s been. The...
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About
It behoves me to commence this exploration into the world of tumblr with a short note of explanatory text. It has been quite some time since I wrote a first post on a blog and, it seems, it doesn’t get any easier.
I should admit right at the start that I have no real objective for this thing. I have ideas - don’t we all? - but no kind of unifying theme around which I might hang my...