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Southwell Minster - 1945

July 24th, 2008 · No comment

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Southwell – home to a racecourse, and as I found out today – this lovely minster.

Sent in 1945 fron Southwell in Nottinghamshire, to Willow Avenue in Birmingham.

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Blogger relief from Berocca

July 23rd, 2008 · No comment

image Berocca are giving away some ‘blogger relief’ packs….which I guess will contain tubes of their vitamin-c loaded craziness (I love those buggers when I’m suffering from a cold – or jetlag), and some other groovy stuff.

I stuck my name down…might get something nice for free!

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Free Book from Penguin?

July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

image Get yourself over to ‘Blog a Holiday Read’ courtesy of Penguin and register yourself smartish. You can receive a free book, on the provision that you blog a review of it.

I got ‘The Great Gatsby’ – and I’m looking forward to reading it this summer!

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New Facebook Design

July 23rd, 2008 · No comment

Logged on to Facebook this morning – and found I had a new design for the Homepage

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Everything looks a lot more spaced out – more white space – and the news feed feels much more prominent on the left had side, the sidebar is now on the right and again feels a lot less cluttered – what is interesting, is that there are NO ads on the screen outside the news feed… I have no idea what that means to to the people selling them.

Overall – I like the design – I think you can force it for yourself by clicking this link.

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AdCenter picking up the pace

July 22nd, 2008 · No comment

imageMicrosoft AdCenter has been working hard to pick up the pace, looks like the industry is starting to notice!

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Booked for Friday – The Dark Knight

July 22nd, 2008 · No comment

image I’m all booked up for Friday evening– babysitter booked, god is in his heaven!

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Mercury Music Prize Nominations

July 22nd, 2008 · No comment

The nomination list is out for the Mercury Music Prize…

  • Adele – 19
  • British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
  • Burial – Untrue
  • Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
  • Estelle – Shine
  • Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
  • Neon Neon - Stainless Style
  • Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea
  • Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows
  • Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
  • The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

The three in italics are the ones I don’t have (or haven’t heard) – so I’ll reserve my judgement until I’ve done that – but I there are some great albums in here. Elbow is my favourite, but I’m not sure it’s a Mercury winner.

It is going to be very hard to choose.

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