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A soft sheer gauzy fabric. Something delicate, light, or flimsy. A fine film of cobwebs often seen floating in the air or caught on bushes or grass.

On Monday I went for a run with three colleagues at lunchtime.
They were going to run for four miles and back, but said that I could take a shortcut back around the three-mile mark if I needed it.
It turned out I did need it, so I asked, out of breath, how to get back to [...]

(n.) A traveling mender of metal household utensils. (Chiefly British) a member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups of people.

Since last Tuesday morning, every message I send myself (from my Yahoo! Mail account to the same account) goes straight into the spam folder. Does anybody know why that is? Has Yahoo! changed some settings?
I can send myself messages from work, or from my other email accounts, but anything from my Yahoo! Mail address is [...]

Any of various swimming and diving birds of the family Podicipedidae, having a pointed bill and lobed, fleshy membranes along each toe.

Apple is demanding that people remove links to the Windows mobile iPhone interface simulation wallpaper that were plastered everywhere in the last couple of days. Cease and desist letters from lawyers and all. Damn serious.
I happened to bookmark that very same link in del.icio.us, and you might still be able to see it in the [...]

Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child. False; untrue.

Smalltown Boy is a song that always gets me, and I don't even particularly like it.
I don't even consider it as incredibly fitting to describe my past. Alright, I might have been 'always a lonely boy', and I had more than my fair share of being 'pushed around and kicked around', but who isn't?
And I [...]

Diagnostic or distinctive. A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.

A new Icelandic vodka is on the market. Reyka Vodka is made by Scotch whisky maker William Grant & Sons: they built a distillery in Iceland to use lava-filtered pure water (i.e. ordinary water in Iceland) and geothermal energy (i.e. ordinary energy in Iceland) to produce it. Must taste soon to check if the flavour [...]

Relating to a threshold.

Yesterday at work I had to illustrate new features of our main product to a team of about ten people.
It had been some time since the last time I treaded the board(room)s, but past professional experience and tips and tricks I picked up in my previous life as a (not very often) jobbing actor in [...]

A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one. A small window or opening, often fitted with glass or a grating.

Travbuddy is a website where you can check off a list of the countries that you have travelled to and automatically generate a world map colouring in the places that you have visited.
I had used some other map before, but this one is better because you can select which individual North American states you've been [...]

An inhabitant; a resident. One that frequents a particular place.

When somebody tags you with a meme, and it's the first time anyone does that to you, the least you can do is fall out to bed at 3am to oblige.
So, after a gentle nudge by Mike at Troubled Diva, here we go.
Seven successes in 2006.

Becoming a consultant for my current employer, a large media [...]

Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Often used in the plural.

I missed the live fireworks this year but from YouTube videos they look like the very impressive London Eye-focused display they had last year, and which I had the privilege to admire from a rooftop in Vauxhall.
That's all very nice. But… one-point-three million pounds?
In other - possibly related - news, as of January 1st I [...]

To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate. To take away; subtract.

I am definitely a lurker. I read and use and breathe the web, but before posting a comment anywhere or actively taking part in an online discussion, I absolutely need to make sure that I have something to say, and that my contribution adds value, and that nobody else has already made the same point.
Needless [...]

I noticed in the gay press how many venues for us gentlemen who can name (and surname) all five Girls Aloud are closed or running deprived of normal residencies during the first couple of weeks in January.
Some even venture into launching some sort of supermarket-style promotion like Crash next Saturday 13:

five pound entry before midnight [...]

Given over to dissipation; dissolute. Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.

I came back from my last trip to Italy with a few videotapes that I'd kept at the family house. They had been sent to me by some good friends when I was living in France, so that I would not lose touch with the political climate at the time.
They thought the best way was [...]

Of, relating to, or designating a disease having no known cause.

Today we removed the gingerbread cookies from the Christmas tree (and resisted the tempation to eat them, but only because they had been hanging for three weeks on a tree that had been sprayed with insect killer).
We then took down the cards we had hung on the walls, and the fairy lights around a friend's [...]

A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream. A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.

An abnormal new growth of tissue in animals or plants; a tumor.

Saw Kylie at Wembley last night.
She is the most adorable pint-sized princess around.
I did not think she could hold notes so well. Digital trickery, skillful camouflage with the backing singers, or simply better vocals?
A little bit cheesy - not that we don't like cheesy - when she commented on some serious competition she had in [...]

To prevent or forbid authoritatively: blackball, negative, turn down, veto. Idioms: turn thumbs down on. See accept/reject. To be unwilling to accept, consider, or receive. To decline.

Repeated involuntary defecation somewhere other than a toilet by a child age four or older that continues for at least one month.