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Posted on Sun 28 January 2007 in general

I am now back in Manchester having returned from a week of Skiing with my nearest and dearest. I was also induced to abstain from accessing the 'net for the week so will be summarising the week from memory :-)

I headed down to Cambridge on Friday as the clan (and …


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Wrong kind of wind

Posted on Fri 19 January 2007 in general

The metro got taken out by today's high winds. I was literally forced to camp out in Sinclairs waiting for the city centre grid lock to abate. I suppose I could of walked but I didn't want a premature injury given I'm off down south before catching a flight to …


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Climate of Debate

Posted on Thu 18 January 2007 in geek

I was disappointed with Today's discussion about Dennis Avery's book Unstoppable Global Warming. The central tenant of the book is that global warming is not due to human action but part of a natural environmental cycle of the earth - basically we can't do anything about it and should just prepare …


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Quick Catch Up

Posted on Wed 17 January 2007 in general

I took advantage of my flexible working to leave early last Friday to visit the lovely Fliss. As has been noted elsewhere there was, in rough order: Cocktails, parents, Kew Gardens, and catching up with old school friends. I did take a whole bunch of pictures which I should do …


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iSteve snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

Posted on Fri 12 January 2007 in geek

Why would I bother with a fancy OSX enabled iPhone if I can't hack about with it?