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3G IPhone crack
Oh dear my 3G IPhone is starting to crack up:- The crack is about 12mm (1/2″ long) starting from the 3.5mm headphone connector. I have an appointment to see a Genius in the Cambridge Apple store in a short while…. Powered by ScribeFire. Update: Apple replaced the phone FOC – Excellent service from the Cambridge…
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Death defying leap
Simply amazing jump from the top of the worlds tallest building in Dubai and he was British, we lead the way! More on current.com
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Check your name.
How many social websites are you on? Have a go over at Usernamecheck Powered by ScribeFire.
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1001 posts!
Welcome to my 1001 blog post, or so WordPress thinks! I started blogging in 2002, using Dave Winer‘s Radio software. This is a screenshot of the first posts that I can find:- Interesting about the post on the real inventor of the telephone. Tonights talk at Biosoc was given by Nick Franks which he started…
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All of Monty Python for free!
Wow, if only the rest of the movie/music business would follow where Monty Python leads! The Monty Python Channel on YouTube Powered by ScribeFire.
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Norfolk coastal erosion
Impressive image both for the accuracy of the Etrex/Ascent/HoudahGeo photo placement software and also showing the rate of coastal erosion over the past few years on the North Norfolk coast. Seems to be about 3feet from when the Google satellite images where taken! Powered by ScribeFire.
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A house for less than £100K
Today’s little walk was from Cley to Sheringham. A bit of a late start due to us taking the long way from Kings Lynn 🙁 However it was a lovely clear day with the tide in, the pebble beach makes the walking a bit harder but very rewarding with the sea sounds. The big surprise…
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The Property business
Having sold my old offices to Studio24 on Monday. I’m now looking at places to invest my gains ( Pretty low by the way , the property has roughly doubled in price over 20 years) although when fully let it was yielding 9%. I called up the Kings Street Housing Association. They offer a private…
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Glasnost
In the best spirit of Anglo / Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria’s one month old baby ДАНИЛКА. (that’s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the David Lloyd tennis centre and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one…
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Chance or Fate
Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur. When Sally and I were walking the Camino Via de la Plata from Seville a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel & Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to Santiago and in fact…