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Entries from January 23rd, 2010

A photographer not a terrorist

January 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on A photographer not a terrorist · Life

I forgot all about this event today.  Apart from sounding like a lot of fun it helps get the message across to those policemen who have been interpreting the law a tad overzealously.

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No more pets

January 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life

We decided a while a go that, for various reasons,  we would not have any more pets. After Ziggy died we weakened a little bit and so Rojo joined the family, but that was a momentary lapse of reason – somebody we knew had kittens who needed a home, we had a home… it seemed […]

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The gift that keeps on giving

January 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life

I am still reading the Atheist’s Guide to Christmas.   I was already chuffed about the autograph and message from Ariane Sherine in the front, and had just greatly enjoyed the Richard Dawkins PG Wodehouse spoof and the Simon Singh contribution when I turned the page and found that the first page of the Phil Plait […]

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National TV Awards

January 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off on National TV Awards · Life

I caught something on the news this morning about the National TV Awards which really summed up for me the atrocious state of British TV at the moment: X Factor won the award for best most popular TV talent show, which implies there are now so many of the damn things it is worth having […]

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Count Basie and the Cure

January 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Music

I may just have mentioned once or twice or even a hundred times that I am a bit of a fan of Spotify, but even I have to admit that it can be pretty bloody weird at times, and today was one of those times.

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Fame indeed

January 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Fame indeed · Life

I didn’t realise how well-connected Andrew at Wongablog is in Humanist circles.  This evening I started reading the Atheist’s Guide to Christmas book that I was given at Christmas.  I was already chuffed enough to find it signed, with a personal message, from Ariane Sherine and then I looked at the thanks section at the […]

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Interfering journalists

January 20th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Life

I saw a wonderful thing on the BBC News last night.  There was a piece about events in Haiti and the news team out there actually got involved.  Reporters in disaster areas often appear to be taking the approach of wildlife documentaries – recording events but not interfering.  For all we know they are always […]

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Viral Loop

January 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on Viral Loop · Life

I finished Viral Loop: the Power of  Pass-it-on, a book about how companies grow virally in the internet age, a little while ago but only just got around to writing a review of it – yes it was another of those Amazon Vine books.  They are starting  to pile up a bit now.  I have […]

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The trouble with free?

January 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on The trouble with free? · Technology

I fired up the PC this evening and, as usual, the first thing I kicked off was Spotify.  As it started I kept getting dialog boxes from my anti-virus software (AVG) warning me of a virus in Program Files\Spotify\Spotify.exe which it described as “Runtime packed themida” whatever the hell that means.  I ticked the box […]

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More rubbish?

January 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on More rubbish? · Life

Just seen that the forecast is for heavy snow around here tomorrow afternoon.   Timed to perfection to interfere with our weekly (I wish!) rubbish collection.  I honestly can’t remember when our trash was last collected – is it two weeks? Three weeks?  Is it longer than three weeks or does it just feel like it? […]

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