Oct

29

Duncan Goodhew

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As Small has swimming lessons every Friday it seems only sensible for us to go swimming at the same time. We recently discovered that we could buy a couple’s monthly swimming pass for only the cost of one swim a fortnight. I’m now sitting here having cycled to the pool and back to do 32 [...]

Oct

11

At last, Twitter meets Facebook

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Following on from my discovery a couple of days ago that the Twitter app now can update my Facebook status, I’ve been wondering about how I can keep up to date with people’s Facebook updates while I’m away. Using twitterfeed I have directed a couple of feeds

Oct

9

At last, Facebook meets Twitter

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It appears that it is finally possible to use Twitter to change one’s status on Facebook. I love Twitter. With its mobile phone integration, it’s a fantastic means of keeping close friends up-to-date with one’s activities. With Facebook’s continuing failure to open up their mobile service within the UK, there may finally be more than [...]

Oct

9

Save the World (no mention of cheerleaders)

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In the continuing quest to rebuild the compilation tape that, as I recall, was the soundtrack to our 1985 summer holiday (along with ‘Brothers In Arms’), and while looking for this week’s free single of the week, I was surprised today to see on the iTunes Music Store that George Harrison’s catalogue has just been [...]

Oct

6

Further evidence emerges of Sony losing the plot

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Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer: “Copying” music you own is “stealing”: Asked whether it is wrong for people to make copies of music which they have purchased, Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, replied, When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole [...]