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Somebody told me about her (nameless) school in West London that has simply bizarre practices regarding pupils’ safety online. The Catholic school, for girls aged 11 to 16, has a Facebook account shared by the staff, and pupils were encouraged to accept a friend request at a beginning of term assembly. They were then told [...]

Take an Airport Express connected by the headphone jack to some decent speakers downstairs, and leave your computer on upstairs.
Use the Remote application on the iPhone or iPod touch from downstairs – it can browse and play the iTunes library on the computer, but it can also change the output speakers so that you’re streaming [...]

All credit for this goes to Rodéric (and I wish there was somewhere I could link to him). I figured it might help to learn how to make a little food, just two months before university starts…
No idea what this is called, and you’ll have to trust me when I say it tastes goooood. Oil [...]

Hey everyone, say hello to Isabella (serious disclaimer: I’m not crazy for giving my phone a name, promise…)
A couple of very, very quick thoughts:

Battery life is horrible on this – I guess I’m a heavy user, but I’ve found myself charging just running out of charge as I get home in the evening.
GPS is the [...]

As if we didn’t have enough crap to deal with on the tube, TfL (or CBS) have gone and installed these projectors to show us videos while we move around the city.
I know I’m a little late posting this, Londonist got it at the end of June.

Because I’m a stats geek.
I’ve listened to 29,919 songs, made 9,287 edits to Wikipedia (deleting 512 articles), tweeted 1,134 things, used Firefox for 1,148 hours, written 129 comments on Digg and 68 blog posts right here.
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