28th July 2005
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27th July 2005
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26th July 2005
“I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK but only if 1000 other people will too.”
— Danny O’Brien
I’ve signed up.
Posted by Nic Price at 7:12 pm on 26th July 2005
26th July 2005
Who originally said that?
Posted by Nic Price at 9:51 am on 26th July 2005
25th July 2005
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24th July 2005
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23rd July 2005
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22nd July 2005
Enid Blyton 1897-1968
Popular writer of over 600 books for children
352-356 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. Apparently she was born here.
Thanks to Natalie for the nod.
Now to start getting my head around this geotagging thing.
Posted by Nic Price at 8:01 pm on 22nd July 2005
21st July 2005
I’ve set up a tagcloud for East Dulwich / SE22
Sources so far:
Posted by Nic Price at 11:31 pm on 21st July 2005
21st July 2005
Thanks to my feedreader getting in a muddle over what year it is I got to see this the other day which really made me chuckle:
The Secure Entrance Paradox
To the Residents… One of our engineers visited today to repair the fault in your Secure Entrance System. Unfortunately, we were unable to gain entrance. Please call the following number…
From Battery Life
Posted by Nic Price at 8:23 am on 21st July 2005
20th July 2005
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19th July 2005
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17th July 2005
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14th July 2005
Blogging is changing and challenging journalism. It changed and challenged mine even though I was doing the blogging. It is a way to focus the collective intelligence of the audience onto the facts and arguments. Moblogging from a single device that can do words, pictures, audio and video gives us a taste of the future: when the device can produce broadcast quality video the only limitation will be bandwidth. Everybody will have their own TV station. I can hear that line from The Incredibles - “when everyone is special nobody will be”. But it does not necessarily follow, since blogging, like Google, is a way of voting for excellence and even, frighteningly, voting for truth.
Paul Mason rounds off his Newsnig8t blog with some fascinating thoughts on blogging, journalism and what’s happening to broadcasting.
Posted by Nic Price at 12:52 pm on 14th July 2005
13th July 2005
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12th July 2005
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11th July 2005
Blogger beware!
Job seekers who are also bloggers may have a tough road ahead, if our committee’s experience is any indication.
You may think your blog is a harmless outlet. You may use the faulty logic of the blogger, “Oh, no one will see it anyway.” Don’t count on it. Even if you take your blog offline while job applications are active, Google and other search engines store cached data of their prior contents. So that cranky rant might still turn up.
From Chronicle Careers via plasticbag.org.
Posted by Nic Price at 11:15 pm on 11th July 2005
10th July 2005
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9th July 2005
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8th July 2005
London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.Oh Liza! See the coster barrows,
Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high.
Oh Liza! Little London sparrows,
Covent Garden Market where the costers cry.Cockney feet mark the beat of history.
Every street pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace
The grace of London Town.There’s a little city flower every spring unfailing
Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
Though it has a Latin name, in town and country-side
We in England call it
London Pride.London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.Hey, lady! When the day is dawning
See the policeman yawning on his lonely beat.
Gay lady! Mayfair in the morning,
Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.
Early rain and the pavement’s glistening.
All Park Lane in a shimmering gown.
Nothing ever could break or harm
The charm of London Town.In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent,
We can feel our living past in our shadowed present,
Ghosts beside our starlit Thames who lived and loved and died
Keep throughout the ages
London Pride.London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.Grey city! Stubbornly implanted,
Taken so for granted for a thousand years.
Stay, city! Smokily enchanted,
Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.Every Blitz your resistance toughening,
From the Ritz to the Anchor and Crown,
Nothing ever could override
The pride of London Town.
London Pride by Noël Coward
Posted by Nic Price at 3:39 pm on 8th July 2005
7th July 2005
What a difference a day makes.
Yesterday London was united in euphoria following the success of the Olympic bid.
Today I’ve heard words like shock, disbelief, grief, confusion, panic, calm.
First there was talk of power surges on the underground. Then as reports came through of an explosion on a double-decker bus, the horrible truth started piecing itself together.
My heart goes out to the victims of today’s atrocities in central London.
As I walked from Waterloo Station to Marylebone High Street this morning there was an eery hush broken only by the sound of the occasional speeding black cab or motorcycle courier making the most of the empty streets.
For the first time in years I saw people queuing outside public telephone boxes as the mobile network coverage couldn’t cope with demand.
I have also never seen so many people in suits with their heads buried in their A to Z as they navigate their way through the streets on foot.
London looks very odd without its trademark red double-decker buses.
Reading, listening to and watching the news coverage today has really brought home what a remarkable job our emergency services do.
Today London remains united and one thing’s for certain. We will not give in to cowardly acts like this.
Posted by Nic Price at 5:13 pm on 7th July 2005
7th July 2005
A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane, police have revealed.
Police and firefighters were called to a building site in south east London, after a passer-by spotted the girl.
The unnamed 15-year-old had apparently left her home near the site, climbed the crane and walked across a narrow beam while remaining fast asleep.
The girl was rescued unharmed in the incident which happened on 25 June but has only just been revealed by police.
Mobile phone
Police were initially called at 1.30am amid fears she was about to throw herself off but when a firefighter scaled the crane he found her curled up asleep on top of a concrete counterweight high above the ground.
Fearing to wake her in case she should panic and fall off the arm, the firefighter is understood to have found her mobile phone and called her parents from the top of the crane.
They then phoned her to wake her up.
She was eventually brought down by hydraulic lift and taken to hospital for checks but was found to have suffered no ill effects.
Expert Irshaad Ebrahim, of the London Sleep Centre, told the Times newspaper he had treated people who had driven cars and ridden horses while asleep.
He said one patient had even attempted to fly a helicopter.
Sleepwalking affects one in 10 people at least once in their lives.
Most incidents are short and are not dangerous but it can sometimes result in injury.
Source: BBC News
Posted by Nic Price at 8:07 am on 7th July 2005
7th July 2005
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