Month: November 2003

  • Paul drew me, which is a good thing

    Enigmatic Paul Murphy has drawn my portrait from a photograph he found on the Internet. I think there’s a reasonable chance that this isn’t a drawing at all but just…

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  • Endless deferral

    Voodoo Pad is one of those applications that promises to get me organised. Of course, I long ago resigned myself to never actually getting organised – in fact, downloading and trying…

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  • I dreamt this

    If you dial 1471 from a BT phone you can find out the last number that called you (you can get the last five numbers now, in fact). If you…

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  • Should I buy a Tivo?

    Never shy of jumping on a bandwagon nearly a year after it closes its UK operation, I’ve been bidding on Tivo PVRs (‘Personal Video Recorders’) at eBay. Do you think…

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  • places and camphone privacy

    Camphone hysteria is building. Gadgets with built-in cameras are being banned all over the place. Looks like we’ll see an arbitrary patchwork of camphone rules emerge ??some will ban them,…

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  • How strange are the Electric Light Orchestra?

    Juliet asked me to download some of their stuff so that she could be fifteen again for a while so I did and now I’m speechless at how we let…

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  • Looking for Laurent

    Laurent Byford (or is it Bayford?) used to work at a web design firm called Designercity (now defunct). I need to contact him urgently on some another.com business. Do you…

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