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Quick thoughts for 2007-12-11 (via Twitter)

I thought the New York Times was supposed to be entirely open now? I’ve just hit two articles on my Palm which were behind the login wall. # The rented MacBook has arrived in the kind of case I had assumed was reserved for nuclear triggers. # Sitting back and twiddling my thumbs while I …

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Quick thoughts for 2007-12-10 (via Twitter)

Rented a MacBook so I can get the broken one into Apple to have the keyboard repaired. # Off for lunch, and to prepare my first slow cooker meal – pork casserole in cider. # First a cold, now a chest infection. I avoid the rest of humanity and work in a hermetically sealed vault …

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Quick thoughts for 2007-12-07 (via Twitter)

On the way to Neath near Swansea for a friends wedding. # Amazingly the portion of the film industry I’m dealing with seem incapable of distinguishing FTP and HTTP, leading to my constant confusion. # Standing in a friends kiichen doing last minute uploads for a client… thank heavens for SSH, data centre connections are …

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Quick thoughts for 2007-12-05 (via Twitter)

I’ve got to agree with @davidsmalley, House is great. Good lessons for us in there as well: the patient always lies or is at least deluded. # New Kleptones live mix out, sounding good so far: http://tinyurl.com/25m2h5 # I’m slightly unnerved by the Apple Store people referring to their Geniuses. I respect their expertise and …

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Róisín Murphy and her dressing up box

Went to see Róisín Murphy at Academy Manchester last night: absolutely brilliant. She held the sold out audience spellbound with a fantastic voice, and a dizzying array of hats, shrugs, batwing jumpers, capes, shades, eyemasks, biker jackets and crazy metallic puff dresses.