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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-26

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-26

    Happy Towel Day folks – do you know where yours is today? #towelday # Absolutely wiped out after yesterday liveblogging F1 in Monaco and doing live Twitter updates on Indy 500. Going to have a quiet day today. # Tired but happy after a burst of gardening (and pouring cold water on shagging tortoises) #


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-25

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-25

    Meh. Woke at 6am from bizarre and upsetting dream about a lack of blue cheese. Never got back to sleep again. Long working day ahead. # #3drunkwords “I wanna tattoo” # #failedtvpilots Life on Pluto # #popefacts The Pope IS Spartacus # Heh. Twitter memes, the Chinese takeaways of the meme world. Gone in a…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-23

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-23

    RT @Astrofiammante Hurrah! Just got tix for British #Humanist Assn’s Darwin, Humanism and Science conference with Dawkins & Grayling in June # Lovely day… tempted to take the laptop into the garden and work there. # Jesse “The Body” Ventura: can we get him back into politics please? http://tinyurl.com/qmsr6b # A simple job of sorting…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-22

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-22

    Argh. Webserver running slow. Laptop with IE6 (for testing) booting slow. If I put kettle on while waiting I bet that’ll never boil either. # #CSS Universal #IE6 stylesheet – neat solution to IE6 headaches, but not convinced many clients will buy it. http://tinyurl.com/odf43t # Just had a visit from Papa, John, Ben and Jerry.…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-21

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-21

    OMG – Radio Riel is playing ‘The Good Ship Venus’ (Loudon Wainwright III version)… Just Google the lyrics if you don’t know it… # Am having a battle over whether the blind should come down because of glare on my PC. The more things change, the more they stay the same… # Pushing 10pm. Time…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-05-20

    Twitter Updates for 2009-05-20

    Hair cut and eye test today. Preferable to eye cut and hair test, I suppose. # http://twitpic.com/5he1q – Early morning head-clearing Tai Chi. # Mmmm – pancakes! # Haircut: emphatic. Eye test: passed. Good stuff all round. # And AGAIN I am moved to state, clearly and unambiguously, that Internet Explorer 6 is a syphillitic…


  • Subtlety: best avoided when hungry

    Subtlety: best avoided when hungry

    An exchange with a sandwich vendor who didn’t quite get it.


  • Lynne Featherstone's new portfolio (video)

    Lynne Featherstone's new portfolio (video)

    Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone has been given the new job of overseeing the party’s online campaigning as chair of its new technology board – this video illustrates the sort of issues she’ll be grappling with.


  • Labour of love

    Labour of love

    I’m no fan of the Labour Party at all, or its doings, but I was impressed by one item among the usual drivel in its latest local newsletter.