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Charlie’s on holiday, but he’s asked me if I can post this - bird-watching freak that he is.

(Via Jason via B3TA)

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Love this, from Response Source:

Hmmm.

Hint: if you need to ask, you want the button on the right.

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How’s this for a paper trail? Dave writes a blog post bemoaning the distance between him and Marmite, I take a photo of my breakfast and post it on Flickr, somebody writing about whether wholemeal bread is healthy asks to use it to illustrate their post, I end up blogging about the whole thing.

Correct: no [...]

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Because that’ll work.

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Yeah, I know, it sounds like self-help bullshit, but allow me to explain. Last night saw a cracking thunderstorm over Brighton. It lasted for maybe three hours, with a good couple of hours of forked lightning and proper pyrotechnics.

I was trying to work. Consequently, by the time I’d finally realised that it was a special, [...]

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While writing Sunday’s post I remembered that the Nokia Suite lets you connect your phone and browse its text messages. At least in theory. Version 6.something of the Nokia Communication Centre seemed to hang once it had chalked up a couple of bars on the progress meter, so I’ve downloaded version 7.0.7.0 - didn’t the [...]

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Ah nuts. My mobile, which has been hanging on gamely since going on the fritz last October, looks to be finally shuffling off this mortal coil. It’s still working, but the screen isn’t, so I’ve no idea who’s calling me, or who’s texting me and about what.
I was pondering this, and what a pain in [...]

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As regular reader(s) will know, I read BBC News Online a fair bit. Even so, I’ve never noticed this before. I’m slightly embarrassed that it’s in such a story of prurient interest, but there you go.
So, searching the Beeb for Newstracker reveals that, at least in theory, this has been running since 2004. It’s seemingly [...]

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