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Entries from July 31st, 2010

The dog that didn’t bark

July 31st, 2010 · 11 Comments · Politics, Technology

The 2010 election was billed as ‘the internet election’ , but just about every election since about 2001 has been hyped to be the internet election and one of them was.  The general feeling is that 2010 wasn’t the internet election after all, which is what the Hansard Society are saying in a new report.  […]

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Virtual visits

July 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on Virtual visits · Technology

Microsoft Research say: By combining 360-degree panoramic zooming with dynamically adaptive multi-perspective panoramas, Street Slide provides both an immersive and an informative experience for exploring street-side imagery and geo-located information. Skuds translates: It’s cool If phrases like “adaptive multi-perspective panoramas” leave you cold then this demo of Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View is best […]

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The first rule of Fight Club is…

July 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life

…one never mentions Fight Club. Got to love the idea of Jane Austen’s Fight Club!   (hat tip to Stroppybird) You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Perfect moments

July 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Perfect moments · Life

There is one little part of the Amsterdam ‘city-pick’ book that has kept returning to my thoughts ever since I read it.  A good example of how the best bits are by the lesser-known writers. This is the particular passage that has been haunting me, from the diary of Simona Luff ((No. Me neither.))

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Piet Koopt Hoge Schoenen

July 27th, 2010 · Comments Off on Piet Koopt Hoge Schoenen · Uncategorized

I have just finished reading Amsterdam from the ‘City-Pick series of books, which I got through Amazon’s Vine programme.  It is a collection of snippets from literature about the city.   I must have visited Amsterdam more than anywhere other city except Paris and can find my way round it better than anywhere except London, but […]

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A Study in Pink

July 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life

As soon as I got home from work today I fired up iPlayer on the TV and watched the BBC’s new Sherlock programme, and now I have to join in with the general consensus that it is very good indeed.  It went down very well here, playing to a mixed audience of me (read all […]

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Sherlock

July 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life

I am a little bit of a fan of Sherlock Holmes.  Not totally obsessive – only a couple of the boxes I am packing are full of Holmes-related books, and I have only visited the set of the Granada series once.  OK, so I used to have a Sherlock Holmes tea towel and like to […]

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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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