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Every Little Earthquake

Posted on January 22, 2010 by blogmywiki

It’s ‘Own Clothes Day’ at my children’s schools today, to raise money for Haiti. At breakfast I explained to my daughter, 4, what the money was for. She said ‘we know a song about an earthquake.’ I’d seen a Met … Continue reading →

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Triple-boot OS X, WindowsXP and Linux on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2

Posted on January 5, 2010 by blogmywiki

The aim: to get my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook to allow me to boot into Mac OS X, Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Remix as and when I need each OS – and to get a nice clean Windows install … Continue reading →

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Salt of the earth

Posted on December 20, 2009 by blogmywiki

I was rather ineffectually spreading dishwasher salt on the pavement infront of my house the other day; it was really icy and slippery and I was worried we might not get the car back on the drive. A woman pulled … Continue reading →

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Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music

Posted on December 10, 2009 by blogmywiki

This made me laugh out loud. So lovely to have mornings back again on 6Music… sigh. And I had that Holly Johnson in my studio a few weeks ago. I was sitting there playing out most of ‘Two Tribes’ on … Continue reading →

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24th Generation Vacuum

Posted on November 23, 2009 by blogmywiki

I feel a bit like I did when I finally replaced my original 1st generation iPod with a 4th generation Nano – I just replaced our Dyson DC01 vacuum cleaner with a DC24. The DC01 has lasted well – perhaps … Continue reading →

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