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Notes from a curious life.

The price of fame…

A moving plea from Rachel from north London: Journalists please read: “now hundreds of journalists from all over the world wanting to speak to survivors, and most of them seem to be trying to do so via me. I am sorry, but I can’t help” The problem is that Rachel is torn between two worlds […]

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The Jones in 1881

An excellent and fun tool from the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis enabling you to check the distribution of your surname in the UK (excluding Ireland) for the years 1881 and 1998. The map is for Jones in 1881Purple areas are the highest concentrations (then red > orange >yellow > white) Archived comments These comments […]

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The Jones in 1881

An excellent and fun tool from the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis enabling you to check the distribution of your surname in the UK (excluding Ireland) for the years 1881 and 1998. The map is for Jones in 1881Purple areas are the highest concentrations (then red > orange >yellow > white)

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The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans.

The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans. An excellent petition that I can encourage you to sign. Yes a record company company AGAINST suing its fans for downloading music Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not […]

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Who would have thought…..

Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful […]

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Who would have thought…..

Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful […]

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UK Government IT spending

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport £244,500,000Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland £10,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what […]

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