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In the City of Chicago...
...but not as the evening shadows fall.
A pre-breakfast post to record our safe arrival here yesterday afternoon. In reply to desperance, they did let us in, at Dublin in a process called pre-clearance, no queue and we arrived as if on a domestic flight.
We are now at Club Quarters, a helenraven recommendation which has worked very well. Nice walk yesterday afternoon ( Read more... ) -
It was sixty years ago today
(shewhomust has heard this so often, I suggest she reads no further.)
Sixty years ago I was nearly five and my brother nearly two. We lived with our parents in two rooms in a house in Forest Hill (London SE23). That morning my brother had been twiddling the knobs on our wireless (as we called them). A little later when my mother turned on the radio she could ( Read more... ) -
My Blackberry is not working
I appreciate that I'm number 17,905,673 to watch this, and it's been around for over a year, but it's still funny:
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Happy birthday, Samarcand
Yes, samarcand reaches the big 40 today. We'll be round tomorrow to help you celebrate, meantime, have a good one. -
The final News of the World crossword
Some sample clues:
Are they babbling? (6)
Savings method (1,1,1)
Antsy (anag) (5)
Italian food (5)
Job (4)
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As feeble excuses go ...
There are not many laughs in the News of the World phone hacking saga, but this story in today's Guardian made me laugh out loud:
Under the headline News of the World surveillance of detective: what Rebekah Brooks knew comes the story of how the newspaper was spying on a senior Scotland Yard detective, David Cook, who was investigating two murder ( Read more... ) -
House collapsing under weight of rescued books
No, not us, not this time.
"A Canadian woman's house is collapsing under the weight of the 350,000 books she rescued from a neighbour who was planning to burn them after her bibliophile husband died."
See this story from The Guardian.
"There was a first edition copy of Black Beauty on the top pile and the bottom was all charred off [from being burned ( Read more... ) -
Zoominfo
In case anybody was thinking that Zoominfo are to be relied upon as a source of business information, consider this: in the past couple of days they have emailed two names plucked out of thin air at my business email address. I don't know what makes them think that I have employees called Robin and Anne. Either they are making them up, or they are ( Read more... )
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