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My Ailing iPhone
As I twittered earlier today, my iPhone appears to be intermittently failing. It doesn’t actually lock up, as the time keeps changing, but it has the following symptoms: applications either won’t open, or else open very slowly; it doesn’t make sounds, either when you phone it, or when the alarm goes off – although the…
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If I Were A Child…
I read an article in the Guardian the other day about the introduction of CCTV cameras that got me thinking. In March this year, Sam Goodman, 18, walked out of his politics lesson to protest against four CCTV cameras that had been installed overnight in the classroom. He was joined by all but one of…
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A Confession…
I generally try to avoid branding other peoples’ hobbies as weird, or geeky, or socially embarrassing. After all, if someone enjoys something, and it doesn’t harm anyone else, then why the hell shouldn’t they spend their time and money doing it? We live in a society where people are too quick to cast judgement on…
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I’m Not Sure That’s Helping
Human life has always involved balancing risks against reward, and I sometimes think that the more information we have available to us, the harder this gets. Take swine flu, for example. Compared with some diseases of the past, this is a pussy-cat, and yet it’s already managed to escalate to a serious political crisis. When…
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WordWatch: Fiancé / Fiancée
One of the interesting aspects of the English language is that it is defined not by experts, but by its users. Ultimately, there is no right way or wrong way to speak English; instead there is simply the way it is spoken. The Oxford English Dictionary is usually regarded as the definitive authority on the…
Jonny Nexus 