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May 3rd this year was spent at Sony’s 3Rooms in central London – the event was advertised as an “unconference about games”, and that’s exactly what was delivered. About 120 guys and girls gathered to discuss hardware hacking, the future of gaming, or just play Rock Band. First off, Sony’s venue is… incredible. There are [...]

I’m never, ever going to understand what gives an automated system the right (or even, ability) to call me up any time of day. And why is there nothing at all that can be done about it after the fact?

/ rant

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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