Recently readI lost my mp3 player a few weeks ago, which just forced me into the upgrade I’d been pondering for months. I quite liked the iriver that I had, so I went with iriver again - an iriver H10, to be precise. (I got mine from Amazon within a day of ordering it, so can […]
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Buzznet is just too cumbersome and slow for me to use, and I was severely displeased with the fact that they’re throwing pop-ups at people who aren’t signed in to Buzznet accounts. Plus, everyone else is on Flickr and I was jealous at how much easier and better they all seem to have it. So […]
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She really is one of the nicest people I have ever met.
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She seems to find it unfitting for Washington ‘public servants’ to be thought of as shifty, arrogant, cheating, and morally repugnant.
This reminds me of something Hillary said to me when I was debating whether the Engagement Alliance should be a non-profit or not: People who work for non-profits often think of themselves as being […]
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Alec Muffet kindly piped up in the comments to my MySpace experiment post with a link to his Errorsafe experience. This is a company which needs to be taught a lesson; how MySpace justifies taking their money is anyone’s guess.
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An oh-so quoteworthy riff on ‘music appreciation’ from our friend Brian Micklethwait:
For me, classical music is like English. I heard it in my infancy, and I know exactly what it is about.
The only classical music I dislike is the classical music which was leadenly explained to me in music appreciation classes at school. […]
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I had never so much as exchanged an email or spoken word with Paul Marlow before we met in Northern Ireland last weekend, despite the fact that his wife Siobhan and I have been going strong as close friends via email and telephone (and even snail mail) for many years. One of the things I […]
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Occasionally I surprise myself with how little online curiosities still have the power to, well, surprise and delight me. Finding that our favourite local pub has its own Wikipedia page did both. It is badly in need of editing, but I won’t be doing that, as it requires a precision that I cannot be bothered […]
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Yes, humour. It won’t strike you as funny if you’re po-faced, but my homey Greg Gutfeld keeps being the only writer worth reading at HuffPo.
Link via Jim Treacher
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Fellow Ohioan Daniel Steinberg has a typically touching, fitting post at Dear Elena.
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As part of the preparation for the What MySpace Means, the event I’m putting on next month for my Engagement Alliance non-profit, this weekend I created my own MySpace profile.
When I went back this morning to update all of the fields of my profile, spending about an hour doing so (and saving my changes […]
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It’s a section of my favourite Missoni zigzag knit top (hue adjusted to purple).
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I cooked tonight’s supper (salmon steaks) in the kitchen sink.
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I know so many women who have had miscarriages or stillbirths, but it is not the sort of thing one usually discusses in depth with those who have suffered such tragedies. Today’s Sunday Times details the agony of one woman who went through these things.
Antoine was so small at birth that doctors were unable to […]
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