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2008.02.05: Pancake Day excitement
2007.12.22: Christmas subs joke
2007.12.20: Christmas break
2007.12.06: Shots of Paris
2007.11.30: Payout in two months for Highbury ring-fenced fund?
2007.11.30: Switched away from Dataflame at last
2007.11.30: A few shots of Cardiff
2007.11.30: SC Magazine: How to achieve security buy-in from your staff - without pain
2007.10.21: Away on holiday
2007.10.16: Which is worse: spam or bouncebacks from spam?
2007.09.16: MT-MyBlogLog
2007.08.28: Yet more shots of Parga
2007.08.28: Useful fan mail
2007.08.27: Some more shots of Parga
2007.08.26: Some shots of Parga
2007.08.03: Holiday
2007.06.07: New scripts: Entourage Read Receipt
2007.06.07: SC Magazine: Penetration testing
2007.05.25: Holiday
2007.05.18: Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell
2007.05.14: Miami nice
2007.04.23: Random acts of surprise
2007.04.08: SC Magazine: Compliance
2007.04.01: Out subbing
2007.03.19: Out subbing
2007.03.15: Total Content + Media: the over-ambition of 360º commissioning
2007.03.15: Total Content + Media: DVDs and windowing
2007.03.13: I-visa done
2007.03.12: SC Magazine: Image spam
2007.03.07: I-visa almost done
2007.03.02: Train timetables on your Palm Pilot
2007.02.27: Out subbing again
2007.02.26: I-Visa photos
2007.02.21: Out subbing again
2007.02.20: The ring fenced fund progresses?
2007.02.20: Oh, the horror. I'm on a podcast
2007.02.16: Gmail servers as a cure for overzealous anti-spam systems
2007.02.15: Total Content + Media: Television and the Internet
2007.02.15: SMD dead?
2007.02.08: Getting an i-visa
2007.02.05: Out subbing
2007.02.05: Macworld: WiFi N - what it's all about
2007.01.29: Skyped up
2007.01.07: Jury service
2006.12.28: And a Merry Christmas from Dataflame
2006.12.20: It's sad to see PRs stabbed in the back by their clients
2006.12.18: VNU's big sell-off
2006.11.27: Ramada Jarvis Bristol
2006.11.22: What's wrong with our language teaching?
2006.11.15: Who's the tramp? Me.
2006.11.13: Why don't ISPs and hosting services tell you stuff?
2006.11.13: I sure know how to pick 'em
2006.10.30: Economists: always surprising
2006.10.28: New rights to consider
2006.10.13: Future US folds four ex-Highbury titles
2006.10.09: Speed of payment after liquidation
2006.10.08: Some Oktoberfest pics
2006.10.08: Future finding Highbury mags hard to swallow
2006.10.08: 3000 languages on the block
2006.10.08: People I am not: number three
2006.09.25: Remnant Media in some financial fun
2006.09.24: Three cheers for me apparently
2006.09.08: Holiday time
2006.09.07: An update on the Highbury ring-fenced fund pay-outs
2006.09.04: A handy local's guide to Las Vegas
2006.09.02: The gulf between journalists and everyone else
2006.09.02: One month with Virgin
2006.08.24: Information Age: Information security centres of excellence: The universities that take on the toughest security challenges
2006.08.24: Information Age: Homogeneous storage
2006.08.24: More on the Magicalia/Encanta deal
2006.08.22: Encanta sold to Magicalia
2006.08.16: I must be mad
2006.08.10: Hitchens v Galloway: The rumble in the jungle
2006.08.10: SC Magazine: Penetration testing
2006.08.07: First Direct and some green fudge
2006.08.07: A really bad interviewee (and human being)
2006.08.03: iSight: MedTech investment market
2006.07.27: What's he doing?
2006.07.27: Please don't scare the owl
2006.07.25: Last reason to leave Orange
2006.07.24: Premature language class conclusion
2006.07.21: Language class problem solved
2006.07.21: Don't buy a Sony camera: if it ever goes wrong, you'll regret it
2006.07.20: Oh dear. Here come the script kiddies
2006.07.20: Free iPod language software
2006.07.19: Virgin: not so helpful but friendlier
2006.07.19: The lowdown from BDO
2006.07.18: Ernst & Young reply
2006.07.18: And still no word from Ernst & Young
2006.07.17: Cardiff Bay
2006.07.17: SCHWIF2004 version 0.5 released
2006.07.14: Still no word from Ernst & Young
2006.07.13: Word from Ernst & Young forthcoming, they said
2006.07.12: Database Marketing: Data cleansing software and the customer data management toolkit
2006.07.12: When to upgrade a laptop
2006.07.11: Pick a language, any language
2006.07.10: More SMD payments fun
2006.07.10: The flight from Orange still proving difficult
2006.07.07: Strategy for dealing with call centres revised
2006.07.06: Anyone heard from Ernst & Young?
2006.07.06: SMD still a slouch at payments
2006.07.05: Poynter's writing tools
2006.07.04: And it was going so well...
2006.07.03: Scientists fight back against Exxon
2006.07.03: Stuck for a good word?
2006.07.03: Mystic Pizza
2006.06.30: EasyPizza versus EasyPizza
2006.06.29: This man got elected
2006.06.28: I've let my Salon Premium membership lapse
2006.06.27: How not to claim invalidity benefit
2006.06.27: Moving to Virgin
2006.06.26: Pay more for a green PC?
2006.06.26: Friendlier Claris It! add on
2006.06.26: Fairview? Really?
2006.06.23: The evolution of the alphabet
2006.06.22: Database Marketing: Customer data integration
2006.06.22: S Magazine: The importance of software licence currency
2006.06.22: Putting the blog to good use
2006.06.22: SC Magazine: Unified Threat Management
2006.06.21: The fun of bad PRs continued
2006.06.20: The joy of joyriders
2006.06.19: Happy Birthday blog
2006.06.19: New SCHWIF2004 beta
2006.06.16: Updated Italian flashcards for week 1
2006.06.15: Be and maintenance
2006.06.14: £20 to unlock a phone
2006.06.14: Orange have the last laugh
2006.06.14: Of freelances and holidays
2006.06.14: Am I finally leaving Orange?
2006.06.13: Green press trips
2006.06.12: No word from Orange yet
2006.06.09: Pilger stuff
2006.06.08: Living in fear of the iMac
2006.06.07: Where are the teachers going to come from, Gordon?
2006.06.07: Pictures from Monaco
2006.06.06: Be wary of the PowerBook battery
2006.06.06: Business class on BA
2006.06.05: Force immigrants to learn English?
2006.06.05: Weirdest idea for a Las Vegas casino yet
2006.06.05: Press trip season is upon us
2006.06.05: SMD a bit of a slouch at payments
2006.06.02: ISPs: How much for how much?
2006.06.01: New hotel on the way to Vegas
2006.06.01: Good news from Iraq
2006.05.31: RSS feeds for categories
2006.05.31: Welsh speakers told to breed
2006.05.31: An alternative to antibiotics
2006.05.31: Christopher Hitchens on George Galloway. Again.
2006.05.31: Cursed Linux
2006.05.30: Pause for thought for bloggers and journalists alike
2006.05.30: Remnant to float on AIM
2006.05.30: Move Heathrow?!
2006.05.29: Travel is stressful
2006.05.28: Things I really just don't need
2006.05.19: Book reviews at the New Statesman
2006.05.19: Exxon releases pro-Carbon Dioxide ad
2006.05.16: Blogs best way for freelances to showcase talent
2006.05.16: Rubbish British dentistry
2006.05.15: Congratulations to Martin
2006.05.09: New iMac's arrived
2006.05.09: Not very useful list
2006.05.09: How valuable are immigrants to the US?
2006.05.05: SCHWIF2004 beta available
2006.05.05: Week one of the Italian flash cards are now available
2006.05.03: Those jury service people sure are nice
2006.05.03: McDonald's: the positive side
2006.04.30: Owls help stop criminals from re-offending
2006.04.30: More than just parroting?
2006.04.30: Google launches an Arabic-English translation service
2006.04.30: Rickets and mumps making a comeback
2006.04.26: Notes for paranoid journalists
2006.04.26: Why are the Americans so interested in our sewers?
2006.04.21: Tom and Katie: whoops
2006.04.20: The Umlaut is artistic
2006.04.12: Playstation 3 cat fight breaks out
2006.04.11: Bugger
2006.04.09: Some interesting ideas on how to improve airports
2006.04.09: Your brain needs a different shape to be good at languages
2006.04.09: Don't bother with interesting headlines: Google won't like it
2006.04.06: The survivors at Imagine
2006.04.03: SMD's contact details
2006.04.02: Poor old Press Gazette
2006.03.30: All of Imagine's new contact details
2006.03.22: Get to know the SMD Publishing ad team
2006.03.21: Doug Coupland makes some good points about interviewing
2006.03.17: Chomsky's theory of language acquisition gets another beating
2006.03.17: Handy resources for journalists
2006.03.17: Irish theme pubs explained
2006.03.16: Vanquis bank rears its head again
2006.03.15: A moral victory could be mine - but little else
2006.03.12: Letter from the Highbury receivers
2006.03.11: Ion hairdryers again
2006.03.11: A question of copyright
2006.03.08: More environmental doom and gloom
2006.03.07: PDA Essentials is back
2006.03.05: Science reporting in the media is rubbish says thinktank
2006.03.03: iCreate is back but Mac Creative is gone
2006.03.02: The niceness of Encanta
2006.03.01: What if Microsoft designed the iPod's packaging?
2006.02.27: Imagine starts cranking up its web sites
2006.02.27: Six figure salaries for journalists?
2006.02.23: First Imagine title out of the gate
2006.02.23: How different can headline and story be?
2006.02.22: Possibly the world's stupidest survey
2006.02.17: Some useful advice for freelances
2006.02.17: Another day, another story about global warming
2006.02.16: Handy advice for Dick Cheney
2006.02.15: Imagine confirms some of the mags that have survived the Highbury death nell
2006.02.15: Now kids are supposed to learn Chinese?
2006.02.15: The Lost Mags of Highbury
2006.02.15: Imagine still in talks with staff
2006.02.14: Imagine the sound of silence
2006.02.10: More Imagine magazine news
2006.02.10: Let's be honest, children
2006.02.10: Today is Day of the Journalist
2006.02.10: The readers want info
2006.02.09: Imagine begins to speak!
2006.02.08: Is this the face of a criminal?
2006.02.08: The quietness of Imagine
2006.02.07: Link for all the Highbury stuff here
2006.02.07: Handy Learn Welsh and Gaelic site
2006.02.07: Too old to learn languages?
2006.02.06: Christopher Hitchens on the Danish cartoon scandal
2006.02.02: Ernst & Young letters arriving for Highbury freelances
2006.02.01: Some more details on SMD Publishing
2006.02.01: More good news for subscribers to Highbury titles that are now owned by Imagine
2006.02.01: Most impenetrable standfirst I've read this year
2006.02.01: Highbury receivers: more information for creditors
2006.02.01: Some of the Highbury titles that might be continuing with Imagine
2006.01.31: Kelvin comes out from under the parapet
2006.01.31: More shock and horror in the US over misleading copy
2006.01.30: More global warming gloom and doom
2006.01.28: More Spanish and Greek flash cards
2006.01.27: Ringfenced guarantees
2006.01.27: Contact address for the Highbury receivers
2006.01.27: Encanta Media: everyone's jumped on board
2006.01.26: Further Imagine and Highbury news in Press Gazette
2006.01.25: More news scandals in America: freelancers to blame apparently
2006.01.25: More on what's happening with Imagine and Highbury
2006.01.25: SMD Publishing really is Remnant Media
2006.01.25: Owen Davies is MD of Encanta
2006.01.25: More background on Encanta deal
2006.01.25: Why is President Bush so awesome?
2006.01.24: Potential Brush Colour/Encanta/SMD owners
2006.01.24: SMD tactics look familiar
2006.01.23: Who are SMD Publishing?
2006.01.23: Front and Hotdog sold off
2006.01.23: Who are Brush Colour?
2006.01.23: Press Gazette picks up on Imagine news
2006.01.23: It's not just carbon dioxide that we have to worry about
2006.01.23: Turn off your gadgets at night
2006.01.22: Damian Butt helps clear up the Highbury-Imagine confusion
2006.01.21: More Highbury details
2006.01.20: Charlie identifies another potential Bad Science recipient
2006.01.20: Imagine that
2006.01.19: US clamp down on plagiarism gone too far?
2006.01.18: Christopher Hitchens joins lawsuit against the US President and Vice President
2006.01.18: Someone else joins the anti-McKeith brigade
2006.01.18: Scary Rubik's cube people
2006.01.17: Handy Menzies pronunciation guide
2006.01.17: Hitchens sees hope for Iraq
2006.01.16: Highbury bidders down to two
2006.01.14: Journalism morally indefensible?
2006.01.13: Teen reporters unmask man claiming to be a British duke
2006.01.13: The ethical challenge comes back with a vengeance
2006.01.13: Two reviews of one TV programme on the same web site
2006.01.13: Ben Goldacre exaggerating about arts graduates and science journalism? Actually, no
2006.01.12: 'Subs' again
2006.01.12: Grey and white brain matter explained
2006.01.11: Ethics in principle and in practice
2006.01.11: Norwegian Bloggers are mental
2006.01.11: Generation Y starts whining again
2006.01.09: Differences between US and UK editors
2006.01.08: Critique of video game journalism
2006.01.08: Estate agents admit to overpricing
2006.01.07: What to do about Charles Kennedy?
2006.01.05: Highbury up for sale
2006.01.05: Ad standards body clamps down on Chinese medicine claims
2006.01.05: Turns out that US laws are optional if the President says so
2006.01.05: French taxi drivers beat British ones for rudeness hands down
2006.01.04: It's hard being green sometimes
2006.01.02: Journalists should go on strike for a year
2006.01.02: The effects of binge-drinking
2006.01.02: One hundred things we didn't know a year ago. Except we did.
2006.01.02: Renewable energy trends in 2005
2005.12.28: We're in trouble if the UK is the best green country in Europe
2005.12.28: Texting for deaf people misses the point
2005.12.24: Hungary and Finnish not so close after all
2005.12.22: Christmas absence
2005.12.22: Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster due soon
2005.12.22: Kelvin MacKenzie quits Highbury
2005.12.22: Who nicked my money and why doesn't First Direct want to stop them?
2005.12.20: Free speech in all cases
2005.12.20: Who says journalists can't do good?
2005.12.20: How do you misplace a sixth of your economy?
2005.12.20: US-style murder laws could come to England and Wales
2005.12.20: Don't want to do any research? Time for some weasel language
2005.12.19: Highbury spurned a takeover offer
2005.12.19: Was President Bush's spying legal?
2005.12.19: “Are you thinking what we're thinking?” Actually, you'renot even thinking what you're thinking
2005.12.19: Bill Gates one of Time's People of the Year
2005.12.17: Mobile phone companies have the ability to spot iffy calls
2005.12.17: UK concedes in EU trade talks
2005.12.17: Language learning getting worse in the UK
2005.12.17: WTO fails to agree... anything
2005.12.17: Iraqi elections not spying on own people unlawfully the story
2005.12.16: Government departments failing to meet CO₂ targets
2005.12.16: A guide to Hungarian in the strangest of places
2005.12.16: BBC director says BBC news needs to be better. Journalists say BBC needs to be better
2005.12.15: Now Congress is backing the ban
2005.12.15: Right hand - meet left hand. He'd like to introduce you to the government's language education policy.
2005.12.15: WatchingAmerica
2005.12.15: I couldn't make this stuff up: how does Dr Gillian McKeith manage it?
2005.12.15: Arctic Systems wins high-court appeal
2005.12.15: Hello pot. Kettle here: you're black. Salon attacks Slate for boring election coverage
2005.12.14: Economist's green coverage
2005.12.14: Life in sales
2005.12.14: Online ABCs
2005.12.14: A worrying day for Gordon Brown
2005.12.14: New words you never knew
2005.12.14: Iran's president is clearly victim of CIA plot
2005.12.14: Fetch your coat, Charles
2005.12.14: Improve recycling targets
2005.12.13: Oh, the irony
2005.12.13: Best errors of 2005
2005.12.11: 119,247 US soldiers being treated for illnesses arising from Iraq and Afghanistan
2005.12.09: More Instant Spanish flashcards
2005.12.09: Do socialists ride buses?
2005.12.09: Plagiarism or not: you decide
2005.12.08: Birthday absence
2005.12.08: Spiked!
2005.12.04: Christopher Hitchens sites
2005.12.02: Does “Instant Spanish” actually work?
2005.12.02: Mr Yousaff: your time is nigh!
2005.12.01: Wow. The worst story ever written
2005.12.01: Why has what doubled?
2005.12.01: Need an article template?
2005.12.01: Ebola reservoir might be found
2005.11.30: Editors: support your journalists
2005.11.30: The inalienable right of journalists to freebies
2005.11.30: The benefits of meditation
2005.11.30: Science, fundamentalism and climate change
2005.11.30: That Blair-Bush-Al Jazeera memo finally getting some notice in the US
2005.11.30: Pilger on Internet news
2005.11.29: “Wooden tongue” writing
2005.11.28: What it takes to be a sub
2005.11.25: My psychic powers
2005.11.24: A defence of Bob Woodward
2005.11.24: Reprieve for cosmological constant
2005.11.24: Magazine about open source, made with open source
2005.11.23: Sucking in three languages. Or maybe four.
2005.11.23: There's no free speech in Britain
2005.11.21: Gullible people required
2005.11.17: More Spanish flash cards
2005.11.13: Sunday magazine round-up
2005.11.11: Daily Mail: by misogynists for misogynists
2005.11.09: Stupidity in journalism
2005.11.08: Irresponsible journalism?
2005.11.08: The cost of Vegas
2005.11.08: £120m for Friends Reunited
2005.11.04: One of my blog entries has escaped and mutated
2005.10.31: Another new sign language is born
2005.10.31: Who needs foreigners when there's Mel Gibson in Hollywood?
2005.10.31: Bloody Goldfrapp
2005.10.31: Good luck with that one, silicon.com
2005.10.21: Travelling to the US is rubbish for journalists
2005.10.20: Japanese typos worse than English
2005.10.19: Avoiding the overseas call centres
2005.10.18: The strangely parallel lives of trade journalists
2005.10.16: Come fly with me
2005.10.16: Tell Me No Lies
2005.10.15: Greek flash cards + week three of Spanish
2005.10.15: Work cut out for them
2005.10.12: Press centres
2005.10.07: SOA backlash
2005.10.07: Whoops. A better way of doing flash cards
2005.10.06: More Instant Spanish flash cards
2005.10.06: Well done John McCain
2005.10.02: New program for your delight
2005.09.30: Tasting tips
2005.09.29: iPods and recording phone interviews
2005.09.26: The UK loves languages
2005.09.24: More flash cards
2005.09.23: Who's the most important? We are
2005.09.15: A day of success
2005.09.15: Handbags at dawn
2005.09.09: Bad Science (journalism)
2005.09.09: SCHWIF2004 update
2005.09.08: Flash cards
2005.09.05: Watching the English
2005.08.29: Stories from the frontiers of language
2005.08.29: I hate them already
2005.08.27: Life as a freelance
2005.08.22: Do we deserve civil liberties?
2005.08.17: The rain in Spain…
2005.08.16: It's all Spanish to me
2005.08.06: Orange incompetency
2005.08.04: Mobile phone insurance
2005.08.02: Back at last
2005.07.03: On my holidays
2005.06.23: T-Mobile again
2005.06.22: Money for nothing?
2005.06.18: My past returns to haunt me
2005.06.18: Thieving gypsies. Well maybe
2005.06.18: It's all Greek to me

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