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Here is Em really jubilant at her excellent GCSE results. She managed 7 A* and 4 A’s. I’m a really proud dad today. All of her friends also did well, interestingly her friends who went to Parkside did exactly as well as her friends at The Perse, and apparently Joe from Parkside received a letter of commendation, been […]
Just under a year ago I organised the Our Social World conference here in Cambridge, UK. One of the cool things that Adrian kindly did for us was a river of news feeds that was displayed on the projector. This displayed all mentions of the conference, including all the delegates, and also since we are […]
For any of you out there who might be struggling, like I was, to locate the instruction book/manual for the MD5909 DECT phone that Aldi sells. It can be found here. In fact the problem was a duff base station that rang with incoming calls but non of the remote phones could answer 🙁 I […]
Thanks to Old-faithful Wolf from the MKP for this inspiring quote:-From the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz: 1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction […]
A really excellent idea, outlined here, of how The Washington Post intends to make an improved version of a blogroll by:- A link to members’ blogs will be featured in our Sponsored Blogroll index, giving your writing promotional space on the washingtonpost.com home page and giving you an introduction to an audience of 8 million […]
Amazing site for the teens and slightly above just look at this river of comments pouring in from its users, in real time. Another Myspace or YouTube in the making. The site is still privately owned “Sugar Publishing is a privately-owned media company focused on creating the best online editorial and community for trendsetting, passionate, […]
Its seems true we are all going mad. This BA plane was forced to turn back “Security teams on the ground advised that the plane could continue safely but after 90 minutes angry passengers complained and the pilot returned to the UK”. What ever were those passengers thinking off? and what about the poor guy […]
Just discovered LibraryThing. Fantastic site that allows you to enter all your books by ISBN number or author and title. First 200 books are free to enter (I’m now at 150) and I would say at least 300 more to go. The really cool thing is that you can generate clouds either by tag, author […]
As spoken by Britain’s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray:- “None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a planeticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency ofthe UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber forquite some time.” […]
Windows Live Writer seems to be getting some good reviews. I thought I would do a search for “Temporary Post Used For Style Detection” in Google, As this is a sign that a blogger has been using it. Today it gives 147 entries. Here is the search window, I inserted it merely by doing a […]