Are you a seeker?

October 14, 2008

There are clues, if you can find them. And there are things to be found, if you can puzzle through the clues. And there are three Nokia phones to be won if you do well. Are you a seeker?

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Money as debt

October 13, 2008

This is a fascinating video, one very pertinent to the current economic situation. It’s the sort of video that makes you wonder why you never asked the question “Where does all the money come from?” The answer is not what you think. (Via Euan.)

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Rhwybeth pwysig

October 12, 2008

Mae gen i rywbeth pwysig i ddweud, ond bydda i’n dweud y peth unwaith yn unig: negatif dim pwynt un tri dim tri dau tri. Pob lwc efo’ch ymchwil!

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Wrist update

October 8, 2008

First night with splints, and first Alexander Technique session. (I recorded this last night, but Viddler didn’t encode it in time for me to post it here.)

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Bad news and good news

October 6, 2008

The bad news is that I have carpal tunnel syndrome. The good news is that we’ve caught it early and the prognosis for a full recovery is good!

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Hello Orwell

September 26, 2008

I really do get depressed at the state of the State in the UK these days. Labour have turned us into a country Orwell would be shocked by, and this post from Cory Doctorow made me even more depressed about the direction the UK is going: Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary, had unilaterally (and […]

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A new theme!

September 21, 2008

You may have noticed, if you visit the site regularly rather than read via RSS, that I have changed the theme I’m using. I recently found Thesis, by Chris Pearson, a WordPress theme that’s been designed specifically to be adapted. It’s very easy to put in a background image and to use a custom stylesheet, […]

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Realisations

September 20, 2008

I was at Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Cologne last week and one of the people I met there mentioned that they had noticed I hadn’t been blogging so much lately. They’re right, I haven’t been writing even a fraction as much as I used to, either here on Chocolate and Vodka, or over on Strange […]

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Olympics v freedom

September 2, 2008

Blatant copy from Ian Brown’s blog, but it was so good I wanted to keep it for myself: “I admit, I questioned the wisdom of giving the games to a city with such a poor human rights record — every citizen under surveillance, police executing suspects, people interrogated just for taking a photo in a […]

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Neil Gaiman & ORG, October

September 2, 2008

The Open Rights Group has organised an evening with Neil Gaiman, its Founding Patron, on Friday, 24 October (7.00 – 9.00 pm), where Neil will talk about Piracy and Obscurity: In this, the first public appearance of his Graveyard Book UK tour, he invites fans and ORG supporters to discuss piracy from the perspective of […]

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Back from Herstmonceux

August 26, 2008

It was a wet and windy weekend down in East Sussex, but we had (mainly) a fun time despite the rain. I learnt that Herstmonceux is pronounced hurst-mon-SOO, not hurst-mon-SO, as I’d been saying it. The Craft Tent was right by the Jousting Arena, and my head kept jerking up every time I caught the […]

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Shhh! It’s the mad blog woman…

August 21, 2008

I know it’s insane, and I know I’ve got too many blogs already, but I’ve started a new jewellery-focused one, called Lost Yod. I’ll explain the name one day, when I’m a little less busy. Meantime, I think I’m ready for the Medieval festival down in Herstmonceux on the weekend, so if you’re in the […]

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Off to Offa’s Dyke

August 10, 2008

Not that this will actually have any impact on how much blogging gets done here, given that I’ve been sadly far too quiet here in recent months, but Kev and I are off for a week to hike along Offa’s Dyke, from Chepstow to Knighton. Well, Kev will hike, I will probably waddle and moan […]

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The return of the celebrity cameo

August 7, 2008

A few years ago, I went through a phase of having celebrities make cameo appearances in my dreams. (I could have sworn that I had lots of blog post from years and years ago about celebrity cameos, but I can’t find them. They are probably there in the archives, somewhere, if you can be bothered […]

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Good reasons to join ORG

August 2, 2008

Here’s the deal – if you join the Open Rights Group, and send your confirmation code to Danny O’Brien, he has said he will produce: A daily blog post for another month (worth five ORG memberships) [He’s now up to 2 months – let’s see if we can make it 3] A special one-off issue […]

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