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Interesting to see the types of pages that we (people from our IP) vandalised on Wikipedia over the last two and a half years:
2005 – Arsenal FC, The Musketeers, Wham!
2006 – Vitamin D, Retinol, Domitian, List of Star Wars diseases, Awo, Guild Wars, Nick Ross, Jason, Berlin Blockade, Photoresistor, HOAC, Australia, Care Bears, Lake District, [...]

Which button do I press for “not really…”?

Just got this buying an album from Amazon’s MP3 service - looks like they “fixed” the bug where people outside the US could buy music:
We are sorry…
We could not process your order because of geographical restrictions on the product which you were attempting to purchase. Please refer to the terms of use for this product [...]

Now I’m wondering whether Facebook profiles are destined to look like this forever:

A quick note: most of the people finding this post via search engines want to know why Facebook profiles are sometimes unavailable. It’s due to Facebook carrying out routine maintenance; no data is lost while this is going on, and in my experience it normally lasts no more than about 3 hours at a time. [...]

More detail to come (I hope) but not before a list of the fantastic people we met yesterday at the ExCel Centre:

Thomas Vander Wal, vanderwal.net - thanks again to Thomas for coming and giving his speech Going Social at school last Tuesday. We met him again at FOWA and spoke about the use of the [...]