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Entries from July 23rd, 2010

Not just bloggers

July 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Not just bloggers · Life

Good advice here from Problogger, but it applies a lot more widely than bloggers and should be mandatory reading for commenters on blogs and newspaper sites and email authors and writers of memos and reports at work. But only after the list is extended to eleven items and a new number one is inserted to […]

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Where Venables has been

July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology

So now we know what Jon Venables has been doing under his new identity.  From the Guardian: Half an hour later, the probation officer found his 27-year-old charge sitting at a desktop computer frantically hacking away at the hard drive with a knife, and then a tin opener. “I’m trying to reformat the hard drive,” […]

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Thank you for the music

July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Music

I did something a little bit upsetting this evening: I got rid of all my remaining vinyl. With all the preparations for moving house I realised that it was not sensible to take a load of old records out of one loft just to have them consigned to a different loft. I had already let […]

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