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Thanks to Techmeme I’ve just learned about this great new tool from Microsoft, The Windows Live Writer. I just finished making a post to my WordPress blog at www.geoffjones.net. It worked like a dream, especially the easy integration of images. Ellee is just going to love this when she is back from her hols. My […]
An excellent show by Ze Frank summing up fear and terror and the latest wave of idiocy sweeping the UK government.
Yesterday I visited tthe inner sanctum of the British political system, otherwise known as Portcullis House, this is where the most fortunate MP’s work in a modern office block with armed guards (Yep, like at Heathrow, we are all terrorists now) and a computer system that is so locked down even the poor MP’s struggle […]
What to do when your bank zaps you for penalty charges (click on post title for full story). “The Defendant has imposed charges of £30 each time the Claimant has exceeded his overdraft limit. These charges represent a penalty and do not accurately reflect the defendant’s administration costs. Further, they are contrary to the Unfair […]
Reuters Photo Fraud: “The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the […]
Well after a lot of graft and steep learning curve (and a 23km walk to her house) I managed to get Ellee’s new wordpress blog up and running today. Really cool to be able to import her old blog with its over 200 posts and amazingly over 700 comments , all imported without a glitch […]
For those of you reading this article in The Times the link to Kyles website is this http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ Pretty cool taking: 1 paper clip + 1 free blogger account = 1free house all within a year, Congratulations to the mayor of Kipling Canada for been so blog savvy (although he should fire his web team […]
Here is Paddy Morris tucking into a well deserved meal at Anthony’s birthday bbq last night, here in Les Gets. Paddy is about a third of the way on his walk from Trafalgar square to Istanbul which he started on May 8th 2006, yesterday he had walked into Morzine where he is taking a weeks […]
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