Tweet Since I was lucky enough to be best man to my brother last year I know a thing or two about giving best man speeches. It went down extremely well, which was a relief, but I did enjoy it in the end. Nothing like a captive audience who are actually laughing in the right [...]

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Tweet This morning I’m recovering from seeing The Cure at Palau Sant Jordi, where they played for an amazing 3 hours 5 minutes and performed 38 songs! Although there were problems with the drums drowning out everything else for a period, many of the songs were The Cure at their best, something akin to being [...]

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Tweet The other day I blogged about how Telefonica sucks due to the abuse of their monopoly. I also blogged about Stompernet spoiling the ride for many internet marketers, which Andy Jenkins took exception to, but it has drawn some negative comments in Immediate Edge and at least one internet marketer who is a member [...]

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Tweet Tuesday night I didn’t sleep well. I’m at home on my own with the cats for company, and so maybe it was them disturbing me – I really can’t remember. Last night I kept being woken by one of the cats, so decided to get up and work for a bit. I went back [...]

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Tweet Black 332 Bakelite Telephone Originally uploaded by Old Telephones At the end of last year my parents, who live on the Costa Brava, decided to take the plunge and subscribe to ADSL. They’ve been signed up to Direct Telecom for a few years ago, mainly because they have fantastically cheap calls and my sister [...]

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Tweet Last year I finally got around to reading some books that I should have read years ago. One of those was Neuromancer by cyberpunk novelist William Gibson, and I recently bought the two sequels, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. The prose is pretty dense and so they’re not exactly for the fainthearted, but [...]

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Tweet Well, I’m back. And it’s an interesting start to the year. First I forgot to renew one of my domains. The website isn’t important to me any more as it has had a Google penalty for around 18 months, but almost all my email goes through this domain as I’ve used it since 1999. [...]

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Tweet Yes, it’s that time of year again. The presents have been bought, if not wrapped, I’m just busy backing up data and working out what I need to take away with me and then preparing for departure tomorrow. I’m headed for the Costa Brava, so as well as the normal turkey I hope to [...]

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Tweet 3 presents waiting……… Originally uploaded by paper by design Only a few more days before Xmas and I’ve still got to think of some presents. I keep meaning to spend some “quality time” to daydream myself into action, but it just isn’t happening. Weirdly enough I can’t find a website that helps choose presents [...]

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Tweet I just looked out the window to see a fantastic sunset and decided to share it. In fact it was much more spectacular than the photo suggests, perhaps because it was taken on my trusty Nokia phone. Barcelona sunset The building work – just in case you were wondering – is the new Ciutat [...]

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