December 2008
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tired of winter - I’d like summer back again now please.
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Dogs are better than cats because nobody has made a robot cat.
about to enter the strange and unsettling world of no internet! happy Christmas everyone :-)
Christmas presents are looking at me - I want to open one!
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I give up
My wii will only connect to the internet if nothing else is connected - if my laptop is happily wifi-ing, the wii has a massive strop and refuses. If I deprive my laptop of wifi, the wii will play nicely - it’s petulant!
If I let the wii play on the interweb and then turn it off, my laptop sulks until I turn airport off and then on again as if it’s saying “I know you’ve...
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anyone who gives me a cold is going to get headbutted. you have been warned!
Google's most searched terms →
I think what these lists actually show is that people in the UK are too scared to guess at a really easy URL - who needs a search engine to find Facebook or the BBC website?!
seen 5 people with eBay plastic carrier bags in the last 24 hours. Why would eBay have carrier bags?
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on the back of a lilt bottle there’s a number to call if you need information. doesn’t say what kind of information, only that it’s free.
“I feel all warm inside, like I’ve just eaten a kitten”
– Paul
wondering if I’m the only person online who has never bought anything from eBay.
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There is no need to update your Facebook status more than once a day unless something REMARKABLE is happening. Like maybe a monkey is loose in your office or riding a teeny tricycle down an escalator…
And there is no need to continually change your Facebook status to adjust the number of days/hours/minutes left in some kind of countdown - next to the first update, there is a timestamp. Give...
darts commentary = one ‘dad’ joke after another.
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A “viral” is not just something on YouTube. That is called a “video”.
now it’s December, is there a rule about when to put up Christmas decorations?
I wonder what it’s like to be someone who thinks “ooh, I could make a spreadsheet” I’m not sure I’ll ever know.
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The best thing about Basecamp is that it will whoosh you along to whichever page you were trying to get to before you remembered you need to sign in. EVERYTHING should do that. Take note silly stock photo websites which send you back to the homepage and leave you to search all over again - not cool, not cool at all!
“I always had a theory that the perfect woman would taste of chicken tikka.”
– Something I found whilst tidying my inbox. Made me giggle. Thanks, Simon :-)