I was pondering on the train home (and let’s face it, there’s not a lot else to do on trains but ponder - pity yourselves if I do land the job that requires a 2 hr 30 daily commute) what it is that makes online acquaintances into friends? What is it that gives us [...]

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I have a wonderous little penguin animation that S. from work emailed me today - it’s a gif and the looping just gets old after about three cycles so I don’t want to post it, but if anyone wants to see it, just drop me a line and I’ll send it to you

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I take a bad picture – I rarely, if ever, look even halfway respectable in pictures that are taken of me. There are about two pictures of me that I can look at and not cringe. The “Hat” picture which graces the About page is one of these. My graduation picture is most definitely not. [...]

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Times are, the round of emails from colleagues actually throws up a gem or three…
(All the following are on Flickr, so click to see full size).

And my favourite…

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If a paperclip is a “trombone” in French, what is a trombone?
(Staring at a box of paperclips all day in the office. Sorry.)

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So not only is this week’s Roast very small, it is actually being written on Friday night and set to publish itself on Sunday morning. All being well, the Brainy Snail will have something to read with her morning coffee (I got told off for the posting later and later each week). The way my [...]

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I was on the train home today, staring out the window, listening to Eve 6, and the urge came over me to make new Blog Minions. Yes, I think about my blog whilst I commute. That’s not odd, is it?

Anyway, there are three new Blog Minions I would like to introduce you to:
The Brainy Snail, [...]

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Which would you rather have, a comment, or a trackback? Personally, I’d rather have comments over trackbacks, but that is because of the type of site Bright Meadow is. Really, I should have both. I just can’t be bothered to get down and dirty with the css at the moment.
Apparently, a hole in the heart [...]

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I’m currently in need of a stiff drink - I just finished pruning back my RSS feeds. I had 250 on the last backup list I did, and now I’m working during the week, I just don’t have time to keep up with them all. I’m now down to 150 feeds. I want the list [...]

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Of all the bizarre search phrases that have brought people to my blog, “Chiropractor christian .u.k.” has to be one of the oddest. Who knows what post gets you that search result… :blink_tb:

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