Be careful what you teach your children! Four year-old joy rider takes the wheel From Oddly Enough on the Reuters website: “What he was doing was jump down, hit the accelerator, and get back up so he could see where he was going,” Hayden said, explaining how someone who was too short to reach the floor pedals was able to drive a... More
Don’t just do it… B&Q it! Congratulations to British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur who a few moments ago tonight sailed her boat (the B&Q) in to the history books. She sets a new solo round the world sailing record of 71 days 14 hours, knocking a day and a half off the previous record set last year by French sailor Francis Joyon.... More
Jury selection in the trial of Michael Jackson Knock Knock Who’s there? Michael Jackson Michael Jackson who? You’re on the jury! Joke heard on this morning’s Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4 They’ve got a point More
Where the dill grows On lordshiplane.co.uk the following from a book titled East Dulwich by John D Beasley: In A View of Dulwich, Peckham and Camberwell around 1300 Rosemary Warhurst records that in 1340 there was a hamlet called Est Dilewissh where William Mabuhs, a marshall, sold houses, gardens, arable lands, heath and enclosures to John Leverich. This was... More
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Tagging tags tagging tags tagging tags In today’s Online section in the Guardian there’s a piece by Jim McClellan on the success of Flickr (a photo sharing and organising website). According to co-founder Caterina Fake, in less than a year its membership has already reached 245,000 and grows at a rate of 5-10% a week. McClellan discusses the possibilities brought about... More
Result Top search result for Bill Gates this morning on the new MSN Search takes you to… Bill Gates as Mabus More
Microsooooooooooft takes on Google Today Microsoft launches MSN Search which it hopes will give Larry and Sergei a run for their money. Looks like the folks behind it have taken a leaf out of the minimalist design book, and the results are delivered in a very familiar style to Google’s. However good it is, personally it would take an... More
I wonder what effect this will have on the way we buy houses The UK Land Registry have made all Land Register and Title Plan information since 2001 available on the internet. For £2 you can find out how much your neighbour paid for their gaff. You can’t search by someone’s name, but if you know their house number and street name you can find out the price... More
Ivan Noble – “not defeated” Ivan Noble has posted his final “tumour diary” entry. Ivan is a technology journalist at the BBC. He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in 2002 and has kept an online diary of his life since. He has become too ill to write. His final plea: I will end with a plea. I still... More