28 February 2006
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Steve posted an interesting thought on Fair Trade and the concept of positive investment earlier this week. It boils down to this: count each penny you spend as an investment. It’s only a drop in the ocean but you choose … Continue reading
27 February 2006
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About three weeks ago, I published about the Open Clipart Library. Don’t bother following that link though as it seems to have disappeared. That’s “link rot” for you, one of the downsides of the mutable, dynamic, ever-changing web. I’ll have … Continue reading
24 February 2006
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I’ve recently been exploring the concept of “social bookmarking”. I have been using the del.icio.us service and I was posting about that a few days ago. I’ve now got over 170 items marked for future reference anywhere I can log … Continue reading
22 February 2006
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Jane and I went to see a free film screening at Instituto Cervantes in London last night. It was a biography of Cristina Hoyos, one of the the worlds leading flamenco dancers, and was introduced by Cristina herself. I can’t … Continue reading
21 February 2006
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It’s amazing what becomes “news”. A particular example has been the worldwide storm over the now infamous Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. I’ve only seen one of them (if it offends you, don’t click the link), which looks to … Continue reading
20 February 2006
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Last month I posted about how I was starting to use Rojo as my online newsreader of choice. I’m still with it – Bloglines still stands in to provide my blogroll listing but I’ve given up on Google Reader for … Continue reading
18 February 2006
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I can’t remember when I first heard of Freecycle but it was some time ago. The concept is beautifully simple – rather than throwing out what you don’t want, post it on the Internet because it may be just what … Continue reading
17 February 2006
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Most days, I check the Digg website to see what news other people have dug up. The majority of stories are around computing subject but yesterday my eye was caught by this page of awesome origami work. I’m not very … Continue reading
16 February 2006
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I’m pleased to announce the next Deep to Deep event for Christian bass players to get together and encourage each other with fellowship and what they’ve learnt about the art of bass playing. It’s happening on Saturday 22 April at … Continue reading
15 February 2006
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It’s been a couple of months now since I last posted about my experiments in “audioscrobbling” – setting the software I use to play music to update my profile on the Last.FM site. It came to mind because I’ve just … Continue reading