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The Slowness of Smiley
I’m reading Le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy. This post contains spoilers but since the book was first published in 1977 I’m going to blunder in anyway. I’m about 150 pages in. The last 50 pages or so have been a description of a mission that it turns out is all about getting details of a…
Day 7
A long-distance train journey is a great opportunity for meditation. Especially when you find yourself without a phone signal most of the way and unable to connect to a carrier that will give you data at all. So after waking at Spokane (where a drunk guy was getting thrown off the train) and managing to…
These will be supper tonight courtesy of @podchef :)
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Blogging – a real conversation?
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll stroll down to Soho for a New Media Knowledge event at zero-one. “The trust people put in blogs, their simplicity and interactive character, and their ability to be aggregated via RSS have combined to grant blogs a unique status in the communications spectrum. This event will examine the increasing importance and influence…
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