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See You On The Other Side

In a few short hours I’ll be jetting off to South Korea; my sleep experiment to avoid jet-lag has felt like more of a lesson in…

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Yomiko Readman Lives Here

I came across this picture of a rather insane book store earlier today and it immediately reminded me of the residence of a certain Yomiko Readman…

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Return to Korea

© Topic Photo Agency/Getty Images This time next week I’ll be at Heathrow airport about to embark on a rather epic journey (for me anyway) to…

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Analogue People

The Japanese apparently have a saying for people who aren’t much good with technology – “Analogue Person“, literally translated. Futurologists have long predicted that eventually an…

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Knock-on Effects

My innocuous little post yesterday about the Skype Outage had some quite unexpected effects – within a few hours I’d had thousands of hits and nearly…

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Skype Down Worldwide

If you’re like me and use IM pretty much constantly throughout the day then you can imagine what it’s like to have it suddenly turned off……

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Combating Jet Lag

I’ve been on a fair few flights recently (15 in the last three years and counting) and, climate change issues aside, the one thing which I…

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SEO

Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, recently did an interesting talk on search engine optimisation (SEO) tips for bloggers – if anyone should should be…

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Visually Frivolous

There is so much creative (and sometimes perhaps frivolous) visualisation work being done at the moment – I really couldn’t resist posting this, the Uniqlock –…

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British Ingenuity (or lack of)

Why is it that the Japanese have had bullet trains (Shinkansen) for decades which can travel at over 300 km/h (186 mph) and experimental Maglev trains…

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