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World-class journalism
I was intrigued in what I was missing from being blocked from visiting the News of the World website so I tried it’s parent company News International. “Each of our newspapers is a leader in its field and offers world-class journalism”. If this was in doubt before today’s revelations on phone hacking, their own website…
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News of the world branded “Tasteless”
For once our corporate firewall has got it’s filters just right.
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10 iPhone apps for a UK holiday
On a recent trip to the Lake District and Yorkshire I used a couple of iphone apps which I thought I’d share. For taking photos and video Camera+ – £0.59 What makes this worth the 59p is the ability to specify the point to focus on and a separate exposure point, gives you excellent control. There is…
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Southern let the customer tweet for them.
Some say “it’s better to have no twitter account at all than an inactive one“, but I’m not sure that Southern feel that way, as two twitter accounts with their name on are not promoting the rail company in very good light. Firstly, @southerntrains is mostly harmless narrating the life of a commuter in south…
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96.99% reduction in crime.
How do you get a 96.99% reduction in crime around your home? Move from East London to West Sussex. It’s a shame my car and home insurance didn’t drop by the same amount.
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Rob was in Croydon yesterday
There’s two things that resonated about this blog post by insearchofthefairydust. 1. I’ve worked in croydon for 18 months and can confirm that so far, although I’ve had some good times; “Nobody ever wakes up, and punches the air when they know a morning in Croydon awaits them.” 2. Everyone knows someone like “Rob”. They…
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Music from Misfits
The things you do during the quiet times over Christmas. Like make a playlist of all the music from the TV series Misfits on Grooveshark…. Series one Series two Find them both on grooveshark: Series 1 playlist and Series 2 playlist. I couldn’t find all the tracks, E4 have a full listing of all the tracks used…
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2009 According to Adam and Joe
I commute for 180 minutes a day at the moment, and one thing that makes that journey bearable is podcasts of the Adam and Joe show on BBC 6 Music. If you’ve never listened, you’re too late, they’re taking a break for a few months. But here’s a snippet of what you’ve missed… (you can…
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GPS tracking on iPhone and Google Maps
One of the many applications on my iPhone is MotionX-GPS with gives you a lot of information from the GPS receiver built into the phone. It gives you proper long/lat coordinates for your position, calculates speed, direction and altitude and most interestingly can track your route over time and email you a Google Maps link…
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Massive lies make great political statements
I’m not a fan of political blogs – people ranting opinions and comment about their way the world should change, I prefer to leave that talk to the pub. But the stories recently of MEP Daniel Hannan’s attack on the NHS have lead to some unbelievable fibs being told about the NHS by lunatic campaigners…