One of the tiresome things about the web is remembering so many different usernames and passwords, and having to enter them all the time. Today I just signed up for an OpenId with MyOpenId.com. It'll mean that for participating web sites I'll only have to sign in once. Great …
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My car sits in the garage unused. It's in good working order and I've got a licence to drive it, it's MOTed and insured and everything. I've got two reasons for selling:
- My car runs on a fossil fuel and so contributes to global warming.
- One could easily have (cause …
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A wiki, by definition is collaborative. a non-collaborative wiki is a paradox surely?
I understand where you coming from, but perhaps there should be another term for what you are doing, which essentially is generating web content using wiki tools?
I suggest "WIKI Without Any Wiki Alterability" which nicely forms …
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My website is a wiki. I'm the only one that can edit it, so you might ask, 'What's the point of it being a wiki?'. The point is that wikis are the quickest and easiest thing to edit, and they keep a track of changes. I had a go with …
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Thanks to Emily and Bob for pointing out an
article
in the Independent about green electricity that's relevant to my
post about Good Energy.
The article seems to support the view that the extra greenness that Good Energy gives is the retired ROCs.
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I always look forward to an Iain Banks but I'll never pay for a book. So books are either given to me or borrowed from the library or friends. If someone lends me a book, I'm pretty good at giving it back (but not perfect, I've still got Vox by …
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Blimp was surprised that I hadn't read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' so I thought I'd give it a go. The language is sophisticated, and I think I missed a lot of cultural references. Powell sometimes constructs sentences in an odd, contracted manner. The collection I read was …
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You're right dammit! I've corrected the post and fired the editor.
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Here are a few photos from my rock 'n' roll weekend. We walked from Bath along the Kennet and Avon canal to The George pub.

This is my friend Liz and me.

Thanks to Rahul for these photos.
Rahul had bangars and mash at the pub, but unaccountably lost his …
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Tony,
If your going to include my name in your blog, please please try and get your facts straight. On subjects as important as those discussed, I really think that accuracy is of paramount importance.
You have not been to all the science cafes, as stated, you missed the one …
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