London is probably the only city in the world where you could die on a train station bench, waiting for the first train of the morning, and not have anyone notice until half an hour after the trains have started running.


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Only a few months to go until the 2007 festival season. So far, I've got Glastonbury, Truck, Summer Sundae, and Reading lined up.


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When I was younger, my Dad always told me to be careful when using the internet. It's full of inappropriate content, that might shock and frighten me, I was told. He wasn't wrong. Yesterday, I stumbled across Conservapedia

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Hurrah. It turns out through my general neglect of all things interweb, my web site's photo gallery was hacked two weeks ago.

Normally I'd have been very upset that some kiddies had managed to hack into my site. Fortunately, however, these weren't any ordinary kiddies but "the Best Hackers in the World of 0 & 1" Phew. I feel quite flattered.


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Crikey... after a bit of haggling the offer for the flat was accepted!

Mortgage meetings underway tomorrow, have already been speaking with the lawyer. This is it!

Quite possibly the most embarassing place to situate a public urinal: in the middle of the Vauxhall Cross roundabout.


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Anyone else noticed the trend to take a two bit pop song, add a backing track courtesy of an 80s band, and suddenly you've got a worldwide hit on your hands? Sugababes took Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric," and now Jamelia is sampling Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus".
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Why is the Graffiti in Oxford so much better than anywhere else in the country? Every time I'm there I see something and I either think how cool it is to see political graffiti, or I'm just impressed at how great it looks.

Case in point:


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Saw Mark Thomas last night at the Soho Theatre - as always, he was on top form - if any of you get to check him out on his UK tour, you should seize the opportunity ( Read more... )

The wizards that be decided to add neat little summaries of all of your friends' recent activities in Facebook, comme ca:


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