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Notes from a curious life.

Deserted or Desert?

Apparently George Bush is visiting Dubai, so at 4pm on Sunday (A normal working day in Islamic countries) a National Holiday was declared for today, Monday. Aren’t dictatorships so wonderful . You just do as you please 🙂 With the result today here was no traffic congestion, in fact no cars at all! So I […]

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Leaping Lineouts..

Philip kindly invited Sally, Doug, Adrian and myself to the pre-match lunch at CRUFC. Todays match was towards the EDF National Trophy , Cambridge played Rotherham (Top of National League 1). A very exciting game with Cambridge only losing by one point 🙁 It was the first outing for my Olympus SP-560UZ with its new […]

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Garlik to Qdos

Whilst checking my credit rating etc. using Garlik. I discovered the folks at Vodafone have me in default for £34 from May 2002. This I’m now disputing with them, since as far as I’m aware I paid of Singlepoint(4U) (who my contract was with) in July 2002. Garlik are also getting into checking your digital […]

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Measuring up

I managed to get invited to a OHM event at the Saatchi Industry Lab in London on 28th November 2007 where the keynote speaker was Douglas Hubbard, inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE). Douglas spoke about How to measure anything (which is also the title of his book). These are my rough notes.. An investment […]

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