Many will know that I’m a massive fan of Elbow – having seen them a couple of times in recent years I can attest to how good they are live. The amazing FabChannel has an awesome gig available for streaming through their website.
The show was from 25th June at the Paradiso Main Room in [...]

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Like most people I was doubly impressed with Usain Bolt this week – smashing both the 100m and 200m records whilst winning Olympic Gold.
Now you have a chance to race him yourself – in true old school track and field style – I hit 9.61 and 9.82 in two attempts… I think my keyboard [...]

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With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.
I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a [...]

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Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:

Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for [...]

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Without a doubt the best bookmarking site has relaunched in its first major redesign since the acquisition by Yahoo.  They have had a really nice, clean redesign and added some improvements to key features (100 character notes fields are useful) - whilst also moving to a more ‘traditional’ URL.

My delicious bookmarks can be found [...]

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Twice a month, a service from PhotoJoJo emails me a reminder of what my flickr stream was doing 1 year ago – this week, as I plan a trip for my anniversary – it pinged into my mailbox and reminded me of our trip last year. We had a weekend in Lille, followed by a [...]

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Cuil is a new search engine – from some ex-googlers, it launched last nights with amazing claims of having indexed 121,617,892,992 pages (yep – 121 billion).
So – as always with a new search engine, you hop on over for a quick ego-surf – and here are the results:
Live Search for Matt Rutherford – number [...]

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

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 [...]

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What are the 100 iconic images that define Britain? For me, the phone boxes above are a fantastic symbol of Great Britain – but what is it for you? Geoff Hurst? Stonehenge? Chavs? Tea and Scones?
Whatever it is – you can vote for the most iconic images (and even submit your own) and win prizes [...]

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