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Alistair Appleton – the House Doctor's sidekick and official piece of TV totty here at Bitful towers – has a blog. It is not half bad, focuses on his travelling and is punctuated by plenty of pictures.
Unsurprisingly, I was only a little put off by his narrations of buddhist awakening, which I disrespectfully skimmed through. [...]

I just found some pictures I have taken in the flat I left when I moved in with Dr B. The bathroom set is particularly impressive.
Bathroom cabinet
My shelf is the third from the top. Left to right: contact lens solution, mouthwash, contact lenses, deodorant, perfume.

Shower baskets
Entirely my flatmate's.

Sink
One battery-operated toothbrush, one manual back-up toothbrush, one [...]

Dr B. asked me to provide him with a list of reduced calories menus for the week, made entirely of items he can get at Boots and Sainsburys near work.
In search of inspiration, I flicked through a few of his old issues of Men's Health that needed to go to the recycle bin anyway.
I open [...]

Easter bunnies rapping to Chic's Good Times
'…grooving this easter to the crazy bunny beats'
(categories: audio flash humour easter animation bunny)

Developing New Stories | NowPublic.com (beta)
Beta site that matches photos and items of news. Citizen journalism: request photos to go with a story, add photos to a story, browse photos/news
(categories: journalism news blog photo)

Adding Rows into [...]

"In Italy these days, to be sanctified, one must be either gay or communist."
Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi
Eh?
The world stops to wonder what the funny man meant this time.

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Next of kin card (PDF document)
Ready-to-print 'Next of kin' card to fill in with the relevant person's name and contact information
(categories: health nextofkin partner)

Funny how you spend over a year striving to verbalise the overall feeling you used to have during a long-concluded period of your life. And then you come across a character in a novel that frames it perfectly.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth, page 58:

[...] wanting desperately to be wearing a sign, a large white placard that [...]

What's the house number again?
Originally uploaded by bitful.
Dr B missed the delivery of the contract for his new job because the courier could not find the house.
He then replaced the A4 sheet of paper with a handwritten 250 with three sheets of paper with bold. Numbers. One. Per. Sheet.
And went to pick up the contract [...]

What's That Song
Select an artist, hear snippets of music, choose one of four titles. Warning: highly addictive.
(categories: music game web internet)

I have had access to the (intentionally?) 'leaked' first episode
of the new Doctor Who series for a while now, but I have refrained from
watching it before it airs - unlike Dr B.
Now, it has to be said that I am a Doctor Who 'virgin'.
Growing up on far away shores meant that I was never exposed [...]

British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association
A friend's brother-in-law successfully had surgery to stop snoring. Dr B would like me to. I'd rather avoid going under the knife if it isn't absolutely necessary. What to do?
(categories: snoring sleep surgery)

Stock Photography of The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot, 1937 - Search Photos Pictures Images and Photo [...]

Over the past few weeks I have found out that you can eat 'well' at McDonalds. So a couple of times a week I order two hamburgers and a side salad for lunch, throw away one of the buns and have a balanced meal for 2 pounds 37 pence.
I knew I was not going to [...]

Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
How to optimise a website for low-literacy users who cannot skim but need to plow through reading word by word.
(categories: usability website internet literacy)

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS (pealco.net)
'Like TiVo, but free'
(categories: download tv bittorrent torrent p2p)

New Dr Who leaked onto internet
An episode of the new series of sci-fi drama Doctor Who has been leaked onto the internet.
(categories: tv internet leak DrWho download)

Michael Jackson's favourite things
HIghly irriverent but hilarious take on the Sound of Music tune (requires Flash and sound)
(categories: flash movie "michael jackson" humor)

TRAILER TRASH DOLL .com
Including 'Trailer trash: the [...]

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Michael Jackson Thriller Video - done with Lego
Bear with the boring beginning - the final group choreography is spot on!
(categories: design film fun movie music video lego michael-jackson)

Don't fly with a blue sky
Originally uploaded by bitful.
Well I'm back in sunny East London.
Two hours at the boarding gate with Ryanair flights landing and taking off right left and centre, except mine that was cancelled 'due to adverse weather condition beyond the carrier's control'.
Funny that, since the sun was shining here (see photo taken [...]

I am catching a plane in three hours to pop over to Italy and see a very pregnant friend (she is due to give birth in two weeks).
My mother - who never calls me, and therefore makes me wonder if she really is Italian - has broken this unwritten rule yesterday to let me know [...]

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Paste heals holey teeth
'A trip to the dentist need never be scary again. Scientists in Japan have developed a paste that fills holes in decayed teeth, spelling the end for injections and "drill and fill" dentistry.'
(categories: dentist decay teeth health)

Wists - Visual Bookmarks
The natural child of del.icio.us and Flickr. 'Wists [...]

My life in the back of a Meriva
Originally uploaded by bitful.
As I wrote near the the day this photo was taken, I discovered with pleasure that most of my belongings fit in the back of a car.
True, I already had a drawerful of clothes at Dr B's. And there is another set of boxes behind [...]

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Originally uploaded by Tom Coates.
This is just a test to see how blogging from within Flickr interface works.
I am exploring the possibility of upgrading my Flickr account (I signed up a few months back and would like the increased flexibility and capacity of a paying account).
I came across this, somehow [...]

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Kiev goes 'orange' for Eurovision
The song that became the anthem of Ukraine's "orange revolution" has been chosen to represent the country at this year's Eurovision song contest.
(categories: eurovision music ukraine)

Yesterday I saw two grown men arm-wrestle for a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Then the winner took on another challenger for the much-coveted prize.
Finally the winner decided to split the doughnut with both losers.
OK, they are particularly good, and we seem to have a rather morbid obsession with them at work.
We were also tired and staying late [...]