Monthly Archives: February 2009

Facebook control

There’s a fair few odd things going on this week, one of them is Facebook’s reaction to the recent fuss over facebook content privacy, which is to generate some kind of democracy of the people to decide how its rules go. Now, I honestly didn’t see what all the fuss was about in any event [...]

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Gmail drops off the map

Gmail disappeared for a number of hours today with an as-yet-undefined issue that affected the free gmail service as well as the paid for hosted mail apps functionality. Unfortunately for Google, the popularity of the service means then when they do go down, it pretty much gets noticed. I wonder if we will hear the [...]

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Future Simon Cowell

It’s reported that Simon Cowell wants to be cryogenically frozen so that he can be brought back to life in the future. Imagine that. It could be like those heads in jars such as they have on Futurama, except that it would be Simon Cowell given opinions on futuristic musical talent shows. How super. I’m [...]

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New mouldy stuff – Piccalilli?

Bizzywig off of Bizzywig’s Blog suggested that I might want to look at creating some new mouldy stuff, using Piccalilli.  Now, I’ve not done any mould experiments for a while now. I’m not completely adverse to creating a new one – though my wife is not as taken by the idea as I am – [...]

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More Jade Goody favouritism

Today – and following up to what now seems to be one of my most commented posts ever, having attracted the attention of people of all types – we learn that Jade Goody’s fiance has had his legal curfew relaxed by the Ministry of Justice. Since this was a curfew that was imposed after an [...]

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