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Lifehacker links to an article entitled, 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend but it’s really a great list of things to do at the weekend or during holidays at home.

The National Theatre is one of those buildings on the South Bank which was erected in the 1960’s by people who though concrete was an attractive building material. The name also suggests a rather high-brow entertainment-offering, and consequently I have never really paid much attention to it. However I have learned that this ugly building [...]

London is a city of spectacles: the impressive buildings, changing of the guard, Speakers’ Corner and now pancake races!
(Yes, tomorrow is “pancake day”–hope you hadn’t forgotten!)

IIRC, Speights was the one decent local brew in NZ so while shipping an entire pub to London sounds like a mad idea, at least they sent us their best beer.
Hope it travels better than their rugby players…

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* Kensington Slim Microsaver Cable

A “Kensington Slim Microsaver Cable” is a laptop accessory….

Macworld UK says:
River Thames gets free WiFi: “River Thames to get a free WiFi network, two million go online The river Thames is to get a free WiFi network after two companies, namely free-hotspot.com and MeshHopper partnered up to launch what they claim is Europe’s largest free metropolitian WiFi network.

Despite the liberal use of the [...]

Professor Ross Anderson has called for improved banking regulations in the UK, but I think the really interesting part of the article is the description of how the British government and British banks are working together to reduce protections afforded to bank customers when they are the victim of fraud. Scary stuff.
(Previous to his [...]

2006 was apparently the year of online video. Not content with just blogging written words, or still images, great masses of Internet users everywhere uploaded themselves in full-motion, with sound, to sites like YouTube and Google video.
For those of us who didn’t have time to browse through the thousands of posts on YouTube to find [...]

Unfortunately the server on which this website runs experienced a fatal hardware problem on Christmas Day, and the admins were unable to resuscitate it until today.
Happy New Year!

I just wanted to wish the world a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
My long absence from posting is explained by the fact that I haven’t felt I have had anything interesting to blog about recently, although I have some exciting holidays planned for next year which will hopefully generate more posts!

It’s nice to know that even when the whole world seems to be going crazy, the Australians manage to retain their sense of humour: Last call for Mr Al Kyder and Mr Terry Wrist. [via Metafilter]

While I was in New York last Autumn, we managed to organise a weekly London v New York football game in Central Park which was a lot of fun, and represented a real cultural exchange as we informed the New Yorkers that a trip to the pub was an obligatory part of an after-work sports [...]

Despite passing my viva a year ago this week, I still hadn’t actually had my PhD conferred by the University and reached the promised land of graduation. So, it was very exciting to return to Cambridge last weekend to take my Doctorate. Sadly, as with every trip it seems impossible to catch up with everyone, [...]

When the video recorder failed to record the soundtrack to last week’s Doctor Who it was the excuseomen I needed to splash out on a digital video recorder.
Single tuner models are now under a £100, but I think the ability to watch and record different programmes is pretty much essential for a TV recorder, so [...]

You know you haven’t had enough sleep when you get to work and press the wrong button on the coffee machine.
Happily I’ve discovered that the newsagent closest to work sells flapjacks just like the ones available in the WGB café. Not quite as tasty, but cheaper!