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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-23

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-23

    In foul mood today after heavy working weekend. Have vented by being rude/angry to two cold-call salesmen. One asked for it, one didn't :o( # Good stuff from MySociety on the Govt and what it fails to understand about the web: http://bit.ly/iIkg9 Should be compulsory reading. # Right. I might just feel ready to face…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-21

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-21

    RT @radioriel Today on Radio Riel we take you back to the years of WWII http://tinyurl.com/lz2a7w [wonderful music & interesting story] # Have written up our visit to #F1 Silverstone yesterday here http://bit.ly/staof – really interesting day on a lot of different levels #


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

    Still scheduled to be at Silverstone later as Shell/Ferrari guests despite last night's implosion. Could easily be cancelled, obviously. # http://twitpic.com/7sev2 – Silverstone weather holding up, just. #


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

    Still a bit stunned: if it all kicks off tomorrow in Formula One, we'll be in the Silverstone paddock as Ferrari/Shell guests to witness it. # is back from a trip into town to buy a camera and dictaphone. I swear the guy in the gadgets shop hasn't aged a jot since I was a…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-18

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-18

    WTF? Am awake and it's barely 6am. Not Want! # RT @ElrikMerlin @billt:http://twitpic.com/7lyr7 – Pizza with radius "z" & thickness "a" has volume pi*z*z*a ! [Oh bloody hell that's bad…] # RT @girlonetrack INCREDIBLE hi-res photos by Boston Globe of gov't violence post #iranelection http://is.gd/13o9W [via @Swerdloff] # One door closes, another opens – Renault…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-17

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-17

    Good day so far: a van has arrived with 24 bottles of Cornish real ale, bought from Sharp's at http://bit.ly/cfvne. I <3 teh interwebs. # RT @white_hart RT @unblinkered Will be "living" in Tehran for a while…..explanation here http://bit.ly/GNyon #iranelection #


  • Chalk another one up for the bastards

    Chalk another one up for the bastards

    Here, look. I’m writing an actual post, rather than filling this with digests of Twitter posts. Well blow me down. It’s motivated by anger, of course. The smug bastards at The Times are crowing about how they’ve been big and brave and public interesty by forcing the naming of Nightjack, the CID blogger who recently…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-16

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-16

    All hail the healing power of tea and cornflakes when faced with an early-morning splitter of a headache. Almost feel human at the moment. # RT @girlonetrack We should line up all the blog commenters who shout "First!" in front of a firing squad and ask them, "Who's first, then?" # Headache returning: need more…


  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-15

    Twitter Updates for 2009-06-15

    Is this 'counting data' proof Iranian election was fixed? Looks pretty convincing to me. http://bit.ly/EDpoD via @ElrikMerlin & @MusicThing # Am sitting here thinking 'okay, it's the weekend. What now?' Tea probably. May well go to watch the town cricket team in Herts Cup later. # http://twitpic.com/7ddtc – # Hmmm. Test of sending photo to…