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Regular readers would know that I am a big fan of golfer Camilo Villegas; I’ve been following him for quite a while, as you can see here, here and, most recently, here.
Which is why I am pleased to see he’s just moved to the top of the leaderboard at the Deutsche Bank Championship at 16 [...]

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There’s a not-so-quiet battle going on during the US election, one that is going to get harder and grittier as the days go by. On the face of it, it’s a battle between “Mainstream Media” (or “MSM”, as it gets called) and “New Media” (principally the blogosphere, flickrworld and twitterverse).
I think that the battle can [...]

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We like eating together as a family; there’s something about sharing food together on a regular basis, something I want to encourage within my family, something I want to encourage within all families.
Particularly in winter, we try and have a roast meal every now and then. But we’re not legalistic about it, we are quite [...]

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I love the Web. I love Twitter. I love the way elections are becoming sources of entertainment. Take a look at this:
Little known fact Palin
Now that is viral.

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I live in Windsor. At least I used to. Until it got just a teensy bit hotter than I would want. Which is what would have happened if the BBC forecast, shown below, was accurate…..

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I had some unusual habits when I was young. [Didn't we all?] No, really.
I ate cockroaches. Apparently. This was when I was crawling around on all fours in Calcutta. Every now and then, my parents would hear a tell-tale crunching sound, come running to wherever I was, only to see the last vestiges of cockroach [...]

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Can’t afford to go to Burning Man? Don’t have a ticket? Not your cup of tea? Worry not, help is at hand.
[Thanks to Mary Harrington, the Chief Community Officer at School of Everything, who brought this to my attention via Twitter].
It’s not every day you come across a Chaucerian blog; I’d seen it some years [...]

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Having watched him and tracked him for quite a while now, and with the form he’s shown in the last two majors, I cannot help but believe that Camilo Villegas will win a major soon. You heard it here first.
He has this crazy insouciance when he plays, as if it is perfectly reasonable and normal [...]

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When I read this evocative piece by Tim O’ Reilly on Linking To Yourself, and began to understand just how widespread the “habit” had become, I began to wonder. Doesn’t it make you go blind, or something like that? It should.

I thought Peter Kirn’s comment summarised it elegantly:
1. Link externally when appropriate; don’t create a [...]

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People tend to value scarce things more than they value abundant things. Not all scarce things, though, as this site shows:There I was, blithely catching up on my reading after returning from the vacation. Blog by blog, checking up on the recent output of the people I spend time “following”. Quietly reading Zephoria. And, following [...]

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