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Copyrights and wrongs

I’m having an odd argument with Spreadshirt, the normally excellent T-shirt company. I have a Spreadshirt shop – it’s a pretty easy way of making a little bit of money from designing logos and artwork. But now they’ve pulled one … Continue reading

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Shredded

I bought a cross-cut shredder from Tesco. It stopped working, but they won’t take it back because I can’t find the receipt. I think I must have shredded it.

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TillyPaint on eeePC

I got TillyPaint working on my eeePC – it’s a very simple finger-painting program wot I wrote aimed at very young children. The idea is that you can make a mark without clicking the mouse, which almost all paint programs … Continue reading

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Festive Thought for the Day

Santa is an anagram of Satan. Discuss. Anyway, last year we had a hoot making our own cards with some expensive but lovely wooden stamps. This year I tried to enthuse the kids with my low-rent alternative – A6 stamps … Continue reading

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An appeal

To the nice young man in the baseball cap on the train who was drinking Stella and listening to KissFM at full volume: you’ve got my brand new phone, why not get in touch and you can have the charger … Continue reading

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