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Google Blogsearch
04 January 2007
Read moreThis is a nice little tool that I use a lot, especially when I only want to see stuff posted by real people or posted in a given timescale: blogsearch.google.com.
A search on Zelda got me (via a couple of links), to this zelda name generator. I love …
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My 2006
02 January 2007
Read moreWell, here we are, 2007 and another year has gone. I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions (I do have a problem with winter blues so January is a rubbish time for that type of thing for me), but there is always a touch of nostalgia when Big …
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Office Dress: Bags
30 December 2006
Read moreIn the final in this mini series of office dress, I’ve covered suits, shoes, and now its the turn of bags.
I am a hoarder of all things, not least of handbags. I’m forever buying beautful bags and then finding that actually the one I was already using …
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Hush Puppies Hysteria
30 December 2006
Read moreI warn you now that this article is entirely about shoes.
I love Hush Puppies. I have several pairs of them and they’ve all been fabulous! They’re pretty, practical (ish, the soles weren’t made for steep streets!), and very very comfortable.
In the last couple of years …
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Happy Holidays
28 December 2006
Read moreSlightly late I know as its the 28th today but just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, if you like to celebrate Christmas, and general good wishes of the season if you don’t.
Santa was very good to me this year and I got a new watch (its …
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Christmas Holiday To-Do List
21 December 2006
Read moreWell, I’ve got almost ten days off from work and there’s a few things I’d like to sort out (in addition to the eating, drinking, being merry and lots of visiting I will also be doing!)
- The comments box on this site – its tiny!
- Upgrading Textpattern, disgracefully …
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Office Dress: Suits
21 December 2006
Read moreSuits are the friend of the office-dress-rule-constrained person. At a few places I’ve worked, its been shirt, trousers and shoes for guys, and “appropriate dress” for girls. That’s no help to anyone, its such a vague description. I want a uniform that comes in multipacks of similar pastel …
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Meme Tagged
20 December 2006
Read moreOK, so I’ve been tagged in a post by dotjay for this meme1. The idea is that you write five thing about yourself that people probably didn’t know, and then tag five other people to do the same.
So here goes:
- When I was twelve, I wanted …
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Worry About YouTube
20 December 2006
Read moreI haven’t had a quote-of-the-day for a while, and I just fell across this which really made me think:
The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences …
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Office Dress: Shoes
18 December 2006
Read moreThis is the first entry in a planned mini-series on the issues relating to looking presentable at work when you have to walk there. The article mostly relates to women, since I am one. When I last moved jobs I went from stepping out of my house into my car …
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Cold Crisp Cotswolds
18 December 2006
Read moreAt the weekend I did a bit of a trip across the country as I was going to a party in Warwickshire (complete with ballgown and tiara – photos later if anyone sends me some). I popped down to Witney in Oxfordshire to catch up with some old friends as we …
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Houseless
14 December 2006
Read moreWe pulled out of our second sale1 yesterday. We can’t get a mortgage on this house unless we pay for more surveys, and we already know that the damp proof course has been breached and the whole house needs repointing. Spending money to prove that we can’t …