JB and Co have a shiny new blog, Sushimatic about all things Japanese. Go check it out. You owe it to a fellow minion
I was watching this video about sushi and how to eat it, and a thought struck me: with all the bowing that goes on in Japan, do people ever bang [...]

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I have some potentially bad news for car lovers out there - that manufacturer of beautiful cars, TVR, is in danger again. I’ve long lusted after a TVR, and that they’re British makes them even better, so I would be all if they had to shut.
Continuing in the spirit of last week’s 50 51 [...]

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Lord alone knows how I came to be on this chappies link-roll, but I did a quick check of Technorati today and it turns out a new blog is linking to me - Xenoarchaeology.
Now, because I was bored and am, like most bloggers, obsessed with who is linking to me, I went to check it [...]

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I’m in the process of having a bit of a spring clean around Bright Meadow. It’s been a while since I mucked about with things, and consequently things have got a bit bloated and dusty.
In need of a tidy up basically. Consequently, if things get even odder than usual with the blog, please bear with [...]

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Ok, I have a question for y’all and I hoping that somewhere out there I have a reader who knows the answer:
Is there anyway I can set my Mac so that screenshots automatically get saved to a particular folder, not my desktop? If they can be saved to the folder and name themselves in some [...]

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Just saw In Her Shoes and it had me blubbing like a little baby by the end. I am so pathetic. A nice, predictable, well done film. Three and a half penguins.

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Why are we so willing to accept the status quo?
Time for a little background:
At work, we are technically a hot desking office. We have to be – there are ten people and only eight computers, so we rotate tasks between us. Practically, however, there are three of us who always tend to use the same [...]

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(clicky clicky on the picture to see it full size and see the notes attached).
A little while back, we did a roadshow in conjunction with our local fire service, the idea being we set up shop to sort out our stuff, then they nabbed the pensioners on their way out to talk to them about [...]

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I’m asked time and again why I blog and what Bright Meadow is for - here I try and answer those questions.

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Originally uploaded by birdyboo.
Saw this today on Flickr, and it was just too cute not to share with you all.
Happy St Georges day everyone

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