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Birthday, Happy Birthday

Monday, May 28, 2007

Happy birthday, Bond!
Well, it’s more accurate to wish his creator, Ian Flemming, happy birthday.
Yes, today is Ian Flemming’s birthday, according to the Wikipedia. Born in London, England in 1908, Flemming wanted to be a diplomat, but he failed the Foreign Office examination and decided to go into journalism. He worked for the Reuters News [...]

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Friday Fun Links for the Domestics

Friday, February 9, 2007

So, today, my Friday Fun Links have a theme.
I’m not sure if it was the cleaning this week or what, but I’ve been feeling very, well, um, “domestic”. So, my fun links this week pretty much all have to do with things around the house, or housing itself.
Okay, so let’s start from the outside and [...]

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Big Brother, for a fee?

Thursday, August 21, 2003

Volunteering to be monitored?
Well, according to this article on the International Herald Tribune, folks in London maybe doing just that. There’s a company that’s offering a cell-phone based tracking service in Britain. In theory, it’s meant to track kids and such, but I can see how this kind of thing might get misused. [...]

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The First Blogger

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Today is the birthday of one of the greatest diarists in the English language, Samuel Pepys.
He was, born in London on this day in 1633 to a tailor and a washerwoman. However, thanks to an upper-class cousin who helped him get into good schools and got him government jobs, Pepys managed to work his way [...]

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