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Declan Curry: My (Non-Existent) Part in His Fame Members Public

It is somewhat strange to discover that someone you were at University with now has a huge fan club on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2315949341]. Declan may be a star now, but to me he’ll always be the only guy on the student magazine that

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Any Monkey Can Blog Members Public

Couldn’t resist this: [http://blaugh.com/2007/04/23/any-monkey-can-blog] And the news that Radio 2 is planning a blogging-based comedy series [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/16555/quentin-to-star-in-r2-blogging-drama] is quite fun, too.

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Alan Johnston: Show Your Support Members Public

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2007/alan_johnston/default.stm]BBC Journalist Alan Johnston has now been missing for over a month [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2007/alan_johnston/default.stm]. He is believed to have been kidnapped on

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Misquoting in Print, Correcting in Blogs Members Public

Via Jim [http://bloggingrbi.blogspot.com/2006/11/berners-lee-bites-back.html] and Antony [http://open.typepad.com/open/2006/11/creator_of_the_.html] I note that Tim Berners-Lee, the man that invented the World Wide Web, is complaining about being misquoted in [http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/170]

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One Man's Tour of the Web Members Public

I’ve had a rather large number of tabs open in Firefox for two days now, waiting for me to get around to blogging about them. You know what? It’s not going to happen. And so, inspired by the good Mr Micklethwait [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/

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Adam Tinworth
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A note for classical music fans Members Public

There is a group of classical music fans out there that are currently the bane of my life. These people, despite having a fine ear for music, are morons. They are completely incapable of differentiating between �artist�, �composer� and �track�. For example, Beethoven is not a �track�, he’s a

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Adam Tinworth
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Bush and Trudeau go waaaaaay back Members Public

You never know when that student magazine geek will come back to haunt you: Yahoo! News – ‘Doonesbury’ Artist Trudeau Skewers Bush [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040715/ap_on_re_us/bush_trudeau]

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Hutton Report Members Public

You can download it (and related documents) here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2003/david_kelly_inquiry/inquiry_documents/default.stm] or here [http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/rulings.htm].

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