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QotD: Happy Labor Day!

Sep 9, 2009
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How are you spending this Labor Day? Bonus points if you show us pictures.

At work:

Beware - Community Editors at Work

It's not a holiday in the UK, you see...

QotD: Splurging for My Future

Sep 9, 2009
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What's something you would splurge on this year to improve your future?
Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow.

Well, ideally, a house...

QotD: Houseguest Etiquette

Jul 23, 2009
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What's one thing a houseguest should always do?

Leave.

Having people to stay is great, great fun. But so is the moment they leave and you have the house to yourselves again. :)

QotD: Thirst-Quenching Beverage

Jul 21, 2009
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How do you like to quench your thirst on a hot summer day?

This was working rather well for me earlier:

A Pint and a Plate

Yes, it's beer! In this case, a beer from the Wooden Hand Brewery here in Cornwall. They're a lovely bunch of ales, easy drinking with some interesting flavour, and equally good at room temperature or slightly chilled. Good for a summer's afternoon.

QotD: Email vs. Telephone

Jul 21, 2009
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If you had to give up either email or the telephone for the rest of your life, which one would your forgo?

No contest: the telephone.

I barely use my phone any more. E-mail is more efficient and useful about 70% of the time.

QotD: Only in My Dreams

Jul 12, 2009
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What life dream or goal have you given up on?

GRID issue 1 cover

Oooh! Good one.

I've given up on my dream of being a magazine editor.

Why? Well, I did achieve it briefly, when I was editor of a short-lived magazine called GRID. It was shut down when a new publisher decided to cut a lot of new projects.

However, about the same time, I realised that the whole world was changing, and the arrival of blogs and other early forms of social media were completely reshaping the media landscape. The energy I was putting into GRID got pushed into my personal blogging projects instead, thereby setting the scene for the last three years of my career…

Time overtook the dream, and I don't miss it.

QotD: One Day. $100,000.

Jul 6, 2009
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If you had one day to spend $100,000 - and you had to spend it totally selfishly - what would you buy?

It would be a consumer electronics frenzy, I suspect: flat-screen TV, AppleTV, top end Canon digital SLR, new iMac, new MacBook Pro. And then, I'd see how much change I had, and start thinking frantically...

QotD: RIP MJ

Jun 30, 2009
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What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Bonus points if you share the video.

The Jacksons - Blame it on the boogie

Too many sad retro club nights in my 20s, I guess…

QotD: Everywhere Has Its Problems

Jun 30, 2009
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What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live?
Submitted by Cherney.

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Too much of this city is an unkemot, un-cared for stinking shithole.

Rev Stan showed us one side of London. This is the other side.

QotD: Environmental Confession

Jun 30, 2009
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'Fess up: What do you do that's bad for the environment?
Sponsored by One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco.

In all honesty: drive. I commute to work by car two or three times a week, and often drive to family. I could take the train, but don't.

That said, I'm about to get a new car, which is a whole world greener than the old one. Moving in the right direction, but maybe not as fast as I should be.