Away, away with ye bonny young lass

September 7, 2005

To London. Flatsitting first, then my own room in a rather nice shared flat. By the end of September, I will be no longer the nomad. Best go pack the yurt.

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The org called ORG

September 6, 2005

May I present to you, in all it's wondrous bloggy glory, the Open Rights Group! Yes, that's right, the organisation with no name is now the organisation called ORG. And no smart-alec comments about what we're going to call our first digital rights conference, thank you kindly. You'd be surprised how much work there is […]

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Valuable moral lessons

September 6, 2005

From folksongs. Do not, under any circumstances ignore this advice. You'll end up dead by the third stanza. A Doleful Ghost will be involved.

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Who is planning for the long-term?

September 3, 2005

What's happened in New Orleans this week has been a complete disgrace. The American government should be ashamed of itself for callously allowing the poorest, sickest and most vulnerable people to starve, dehydrate and die in the stricken city. Questions are now being asked in the blogosphere and the press about why a federal response […]

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Temporarily dropping off the face of the internet

August 31, 2005

I have a publisher interested in my book (fingers crossed), and a possible new client (thumbs held*), and this digital rights organisation is slowly taking shape, and I have a book chapter to finish (note the word 'finish', which accurately implies that I've started it, which I have), and BlogOn to organise, and my move […]

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Gondwanaland in all its glory

August 30, 2005

I really wish that we'd had animations like these when I was at university, studying Geology. It would have made our dynamic stratigraphy lectures a lot more comprehensible, not to mention entertaining. As it was, I used to struggle remembering which weird new continents came when, and what the sloppy wet bits inbetween were called, […]

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Saira's blog

August 30, 2005

Another blog victim convert. I'm sitting here with Saira Khan, who has just posted her first blog post ever, for a program on Radio Five Live which will air on the Julian Warricker show on October 2 at 11am. I do so love getting people into blogging.

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Wake up, it's a beautiful morning!

August 30, 2005

Dawn light roused me this morning, I'm not sure at what time. I'm not sure what sort of dream I woke from, I just remember this astonishing feeling of euphoria. It wasn't just waking up in a good mood, it was waking up with all the happy dials turned up to 11. Possibly 12. Euphoric […]

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For reasons which remain unclear

August 27, 2005

I am listening to England attempting to do something unmentionable to Australia in the Fourth Test (apparently those capitals are appropriate) on Radio 4 Longwave. Jones has a fine leg, or so they say. I wish I could see Jones' fine leg, but I'm going to have to take their word for it. I have […]

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In which I have to deal with that fan/star thing again

August 26, 2005

Neil Gaiman's coming to the UK. There will be signings. Which means there may well be queueings. And nerves. Maybe vomiting. Hopefully not. I nearly threw up on Martin Carr's feet once, but that was an unfortunate combination of nerves and food poisoning. At least, that's the story I've maintained for the last decade and […]

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DIY iPod socks

August 26, 2005

A few months ago I asked my Mum to knit me an iPod sock, because I couldn't stand the thought of shelling out over 20 quid for some thin piece of junk from Apple. Whilst she was experimenting, I suggested that she add in a pocket, for the earphones, because there's nothing worse than losing […]

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Flushing the cache

August 26, 2005

Gosh, that sounds a bit rude, doesn't it?

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I wonder…

August 26, 2005

… If posting a post will make this blog show the new ones instead of the old ones. Who can tell. UPDATE: Hm, it seems that this blog thinks it's July 6th, so although posting is fine, and all the articles are here, but it's for some reason not displaying the latest ones on the […]

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BBC Radio 5 interview now up online

August 25, 2005

The interview I did with Kevin Anderson for BBC Radio 5 Pods and Blogs show is now up online, for a limited time only. It will likely be replaced some time around Monday 29 Aug-ish, when the next show goes out at which point I'll post/podcast the MP3 of my 10 minute segment. The nice […]

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Defrag

August 25, 2005

(22:20) gturneruk: oh, i just remembered. windows 95 is ten years old today (22:22) Suw: good god. i mean, i shouldn't be surprised, it being 2005 and all. but still, where did that time go? (22:22) gturneruk: lost clusters (22:23) Suw: i obviously need to defrag

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