Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Google Search Added (+html help?)

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    In the right side-bar. A few people have been asking for this… Just a way of searching through the blog archives. PS – can anyone help me get the align correct? The thing needs bumping in a few pixels to line up with the other items, but I can’t work out how. Nothing in the…

  • Mobile Blogging | Are You Suffering From Hyperconnectia?

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    Reading TSK’s post on the Vizrea mobile-to-blog tool, I wondered if we are in danger of suffering collective Hyperconnectia. [ See Wikipedia entry here ] Do you get Super-highway Rage when you’re connection is dropped, or you can’t find wifi? Does your blood pressure and perspiration rate increase in inverse proportion to the number of…

  • Grizzly Man | Searching for Salvation

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    Just been to see Grizzly Man. It’s fantastic. For those who haven’t heard about it, it’s a documentary cut by Werner Herzog, using footage shot by Timothy Treadwell on his summers living among Grizzly Bears in Alaska. It wouldn’t spoil the film for you to know that in his 13th summer there, he and his…

  • Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Cartoons Will Never Hurt Me.

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    The European press are clearly wrong to raise the temperature on things by re-publishing the offending images, but I can’t help thinking that Mohammed would have been more robust than to worry about them. What worries me more is a minority mindset that reacts with cries of bloody violence, demanding hangings, lynchings and beheadings. It…

  • Dirty Londoners Don’t Flush?

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    A good little ‘dirt’ story bobbed up yesterday. London Mayor Ken Livingstone – for those unfamiliar, not one to mince his words or ideas – has encouraged Londoners not to flush the loo when they take a pee/wizz/spend a penny etc. The idea is to save water… It may be freezing here at the moment,…

  • 100 Reasons You Should Be At This Event

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    1. Si Johnston promises me it’s going to be good. And, even though he’s an Anfield boy, I’ll trust him on this. Click his link for further details. 2. Soliton. Worth it. 3. The Craic. 4.-100. Make up for yourself to justify the trip. And then Carbon Neutrailise it. GoLowImpact™ Contact Si via his blog…