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On the way home tonight (two tubes, one person under a train, a bus and a short walk) I clicked on a URL in an email on my phone to read a friend's message on Facebook, and the T-Mobile nanny informed me that
Content Lock has barred this service because this site is rated 18. [...]

I recently read somewhere that in 10 years time multitasking will not be considered a quality any longer.
Over the weekend, I saw all the people (including myself) at Hack Day listening to presentation, developing their own hacks at the same time, IMing people, twittering, checking email, taking photos, uploading photos, tagging photos, searching for similarly [...]

Head's a bit fried from all I saw. Limbs ever so slighly numb from the walking about helping out. More info as I get a couple of brain cells to interact.
Just a few links for now - got to rush to work:

Official Hack Day blog
Hack Day London unofficial Wiki
hackdaylondon tag on del.icio.us
My Hack Day London [...]

Going a bit mad, removing all colours and images and fancy things from bitful.com.
So here are the former bells and whistles recorded for posterity.
Just in case they are missed.

You know those times when you look around you, and there's stuff everywhere (mostly tat), and you go Right, where's the bin?
You know those times when you take one last look at yourself before going out, and you realise you have caked on the sluttiest makeup you could find, and you try and blend it [...]

The default WordPress search widget used with the default WordPress Kubrick theme displays the Search button on a new line. I don't like that.
I spent a fair amount of time looking for a fix, then looked into it myself and found that:

you need to remove the return 'br' tag in wp-includes\widgets.php (line 411 in WordPress [...]

I wish I could write a post on how to manage multiple online identities.
The truth is, I thought I knew how, but I don't any more.
All I have done so far is maintain two identities, one as bitful and one as my firstnamelastname. Two Flickr accounts, two email addresses, two websites (firstnamemylastname.com currently being [...]

Dave Winer (RSS/XML pioneer/evangelist) on interplanetary data storage:
I'd like to pay a few bucks to beam my thoughts to a nearby solar system that might have intelligent life.
Back in the 70s, I thought it was really cool when they sent a satellite into the cosmos bearing a copy of the Magna Carta and Declaration of [...]

I have just added Subscribe to Comments 2.1 to the list of WordPress plugins I use on bitful.com.
When you leave a comment, you can now choose to be notified via email of future comments to the same post.
I could configure it to let you subscribe to comments even without leaving one but frankly, I already [...]

You might have noticed that most of my recent posts have not got a thumbnail image on the left hand side like they used to.
I have decided to scrap that, because:

it takes me far too long to find an image to use, and it spoils weblog's spontaneity (even if I source them quickly with a [...]

Recent comments on my pictures on Flicker left by Chig have made me realise that things are not always the way they look.
First of all, I so wish my phone (an HTC Hurricane, which is usually a particularly smart smartphone) geo-tagged pictures. Alas, although yes, it does have sat nav software, I would need to [...]

Instructions are for Google Reader, but you can probably play with other aggregators.

Refrain from checking your feeds for a day or so, until most blogs you read have had a chance to update.
Switch to the 'List view' setting.
Hide the blog titles in the left hand side column with a piece of card.
Read post titles and [...]

I always happily give away any pretense of privacy and let people access my data for a quid or two.
It is therefore hardly surprising that I always, always use my Tesco ClubCard, even when I but a stick of chewing-gum at a gas station. Then, every three months Tesco points turn up on my doorstep [...]

I have been running Windows Vista Home Premium for a couple of months now, and the biggest annoyance is that it refuses to retain your email account password(s) if you are using Outlook 2002.
Windows claims you need to enter your email account passwords every time because of security reasons. I say they do it to [...]

I have installed Show Top Commentators, a quick and easy WordPress plugin to show who left the most comments on this website. You can see the top five from the past 365 days under 'Top commentators'.
The current top five is:

David (16)
mike (10)
Dr B (9)
Justin (7)
Chig (5)

At last, something where Dr B. is not number one [...]

While preparing to install the Add-Meta-Tags WordPress Plugin, a quick way to automatically generate XHTML meta tags with existing post categories and blog tagline, for the first time I feel the need to put something in the Options > Tagline field.
I never felt the need for a tagline before. To be honest, I probably never [...]

I always buy my one-month passes and top up pre-paid credit on my Oyster card online. It takes me seconds, one click or two, it's done. Call me irresponsible, but I trust people to keep my credit card number safe and I let them store its details for my next visit.
The greatest feature of the [...]

A while back I created MyCyberTwin. I set it up, taught it a bit about myself but could not be bothered to go through all the tutorials. Then I totally forgot about it.
Then today I received an email notification that somebody was chatting to it, with a link to the conversation between an Australian and [...]

I have received an email from New Yorker K. who googled 'coffee with a straw' and found my post about coffee which mentions my inability to drink coffee through a coffee shop sipping lid without burning my palate/dribbling/staining my shirt, and therefore always stick a straw through it.
Not only did K. feel less isolated (she [...]

Sometimes social software blows me away. Like the other day when I was clicking through people Ziki thought had affinities with me, and I landed on a colleague's page. And yes, I happen to work with people I like and feel a community of interest with.
And then last.fm tells me that the top compatible person [...]

I have had a bit of fun asking Google, our modern oracle, to spit out the general consensus on four nationalities I know well.
Here is what I found in the first page of results:

"Icelanders are known for":

their hard work and hard partying
their hospitality, and when it comes to nightlife for their stamina
their hospitality
going crazy for [...]

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Pi Pie, originally uploaded by tchemgrrl.

Today, 14 March or 3.14, is Pi Day. It also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday.
Mmmh, Pi…
Trivia: In her song π (from the album Ariel), Kate Bush sings the [...]

We are leaving tonight to spend the weekend at Dr B.'s parents in rural Staffordshire. His mother is going for a hot air balloon birthday present flight tomorrow (weather permitting) and we thought we'd go and watch her take off. It will also be nice to go away for a couple of days: I need [...]