Posted in Misc on Feb 28th, 2009
Today we finally stopped buying the Sunday Times. Most of it was tossed aside unread every week and we found the proportion worth reading declining, especially after the latest dumbing down. This coincided with a redesign. Taken together, the result was the further USA Today-ization of the paper. About the only thing we’ll miss is [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 26th, 2009
I thought this was quite funny. Like most people, I thought Twitter was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of when I first heard of it. Eventually I signed up. My first tweet said, I made the cover of Business Week Of course, it was just as a talking head quote on the electronic edition [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 23rd, 2009
The little black cat disappeared under a radiator cover in the living room after her first day and hasn’t been seen out since. Finally, last night, after 4 days, she ventured out and explored a little while we slept. We know because she used her litterbox and left a few white stones from her paws [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 20th, 2009
This is an amusing comment on those pesky Click to agree invitations one has to accede to in order to install software. The only problem here is that the resident cat/legal advisor is still in hiding. She found a spot under the radiator behind the sofa and has disappeared in there. No doubt “the cat [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 18th, 2009
We have always been a family of animal lovers, apart from the Russian Princess, who likes the idea of animals. Cleaning up after them? Yuergh! Forget it! We have just had 14 months without a pet in the house. I wasn’t counting, but I was told this evening, that that’s how long it was since [...]
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