February 2003
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Fate“…And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate…” So who should nip onto my carriage of the train last night and sit directly behind me? Why it’s Loud Woman and a friend of hers. Sounded like they had been for dinner and some wine. Well that’s all…
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Train StationContinuing yesterday’s theme, I was thinking this morning about my people watching habits, and the regular cast of players that make up my morning journey to work. It’s like the station platform is split into groups of similarly thinking people, why do I always stand halfway up the platform then, after checking we are…
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Voicing my opinionOver at the kitchentable, Stuart is able to name who does the train announcements for a couple of rail stations (or thinks he can anyway). It got me thinking about the ‘new’ voice of Scotrail. You see they’ve started running new trains, with nice LED displays of which train you are on, armrests…
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Reading habitsI’m a voyeur, I’ll happily admit it, I bet you are too. So sitting on the train on the way home tonight I glanced around the carriage, a woman reading some soppy book (pink cover, dead giveaway), another woman marking up a powerpoint about financial analysis, a few people reading Metro or the Evening…
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Google stores the past
Interesting article which wasn’t about what I thought it would be. Tracks through the history of Google, from conception to what it is today.. and that is the crux of the matter. Yes it is a search engine, but it is so much more now. When was the last time you googled yourself? A Nation…
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This is coolJust had this forwarded (is that a word?) to me by a friend, she, quite rightly, stated in the subject line of the email that “This is cool”. Indeed it is. I think it did the rounds a while ago but I didn’t check it out first time around.Powers Of 10: “View the…