I’ve just been watching  David Gilmour’s 2006 ‘Live in Gdansk‘ gig filmed at the Gdansk Shipyards marking the 26th Aniversary of the creation of the Solidarity movement. I was amazed to see how many young people were in the 50,000 odd audience, and the 40-strong string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra really was [...]

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Just spent a fascinating weekend with the Camel Trophy Owners club camping just outside Ledbury.  I worked  for the Camel Trophy Comms team from 1997-2000 in Mongolia, Sweden, Chile-Agentina and Tonga-Samoa so I had a ‘VIP’ invite from the club (still slept in my tent though, best night’s kipp in years!) I was gobsmacked by [...]

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I bought one of the new iPod Touches last week and was rather surprised to learn that when I used google maps ‘locate me’ button I was rumbled  within about 100 metres. The thing is, the Touch doesn’t have a gps on board and doesn’t talk to cell towers like the iPhone, so how did [...]

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Like many of us these days my inbox would be looking at over 100 new mails each day if I were to buy various potions, lotions and pills that take would my partner to new ‘heights of pleasure‘ presumably by making me look like I’d got a tent pole in the wedding tackle dept. Luckily [...]

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By now we’ve all been bombarded with information about turning LCD computer screens and TVs to standby to help reduce climate change, but what about the cost savings? I subscribe to a really excellent podcast called Frequencycast which this month has a feature about the costs of running appliances over 12 months. A couple of [...]

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