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Cocktails

August 29th 2008

Cocktails.  I love making them,  but I don’t really drink them (though I enjoy a good martini) but the white russian, and its grumpy teenage child the black russian, captive me at the moment.  With their coffee tones, and warming goodness, even though they are cold, they are like a hug. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade [...]

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Social deprevation

August 27th 2008

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The news is full of tales about the youth crime, gangs, “the break down of the family” and “the break down of society”.  It’s very fashionable to blame drugs, schooling, teen parents, lone parents, teachers, drugdealers, politians and a hundred other people. Well, I’m sitting watching Nick Broomfield’s film [...]

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Uk Twitter message forwarder

August 18th 2008

The UK really is the home of innovation, really it is.  It’s not been a week since Twitter announced they are not going to be able to provide an SMS service in the UK (I’d not even finished my blog post about Orange missing a huge opertunity here) and already a small UK firm has [...]

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Just because I am captive, does not mean you get to fuck me

August 7th 2008

Image via Wikipedia I’m staying in a hotel this evening. It’s rather nice, with a great room and a lovely view. For £150 midweek it should be however, especially as there is little to no reason to stay here on business as far as I can tell. I don’t begrudge them the 150 notes, it [...]

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The problems of High Priority

August 7th 2008

I used to work in a team which took all of it’s work from tickets raised in a queuing system. It was a simple way for people around the world to raise requests to us and for the team to manage their work load. Each ticket has an area of work (so the right people [...]

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6 Word Stories

August 5th 2008

I’ve written, and written about, 6 word stories, several times in the past, but finally today I got my arse in gear any made … 6 Word Stories. You can read the last ten stories submitted, and submit your own. Go, read, write, enjoy, etc etc. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play [...]

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Car flirting

August 3rd 2008

In the last week I must have driven nearly a thousand miles, which given the current price of petrol*, and the size of the UK is not bad going. Something made me think of a game my ex used to play (or that she told me about anyway) called Car Flirting. It seemed an idea [...]

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