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On This Day

On This Day

I remember it on the news like it was yesterday. I remember my mother watching and crying. I remember the images of the rescuers digging amongst the slurry. I remember the TV showing then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson walking around the scene. Although it didn’t directly involve me - I lived 200 miles away at [...]

Twitter Updates for 2007-10-27

Oh dear. Another late one! #
A nice but noisy morning here, as workers are pressure washing outside #
blogging about Facebook #
Eivør Pálsdóttir is very pleasant to listen to #

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Facebook, Computers And Communication

I have read some strange stuff about Facebook recently. There was an article in Newsweek magazine that prompted a lot of responses on their letters page. Now, I’m a Facebook user. I consider myself a reasonably normal person (friends and reader that know a little of me, need NOT comment with sarcasm! (grin)).
I personally [...]

Twitter Updates for 2007-10-26

@kingfuadam I don’t know what portonhol is, but I almost never read the public feed these days #
ripping more CDs…. Some excellent new material for airplay #
new simpler domain for NAB Radio.. http://nabradio.us #
Indeed! NAB Radio R Us! #

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Shibboleth

A word or phrase used as a test for detecting foreigners, or persons from another district, by their pronunciation.
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