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Lifts (elevators) - getting trapped - and a near forgotten post about the Gherkin
I stumbled across a remarkable story this evening. First was the story of Nicholas White who was trapped in a lift in a New York building for . The s…
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MIT’s Personas - how the Internet sees you
MIT’s Personas tool is difficult to describe. It’s a little like peering inside someone’s head as they Google for you and watching them put togethe…
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Spot the anachronism?
Spot the anachronism in the history of computing section of London's Science Museum ? Given the Acorn/BBC Computer Literacy Project get together…
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Augmented Reality tackles Sudoku
It's beginning to feel like a mini-series of iPhone app posts all inspired by Ewan McIntosh's blog ! Today's post should start with the …
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Nowhere to stay? Try your local Ikea!
Picture the scene. You have to move out of your apartment ... fumigation ... best not ask. You live in New York City, and all your friends live in si…
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Ferry Aerobics?
While the P&O ferry is laid out a bit like an plane, not everyone sits up straight! Some take the opportunity to do some exercises ... aerobics, …
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Dustin the Turkey to represent Ireland at May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade
Nobody takes the Eurovision Song Contest too seriously ... until a ludicrous act wins the final, or wins a country’s contest for their entry. And so …
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Does your town have the sparkle to be twinned with Disney World in Florida?
Does Belfast or Lisburn have the pizzazz to be officially twinned with Walt Disney World Resort in Florida? A competition to nominate villages, town…
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Visit Lisburn ... if someone pays the domain registrar? (now fixed)
Did someone forget to pay the bill to keep the visitlisburn.com domain? Clicking on the large Tourism button on the Lisburn City Council homepage…
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UUJ won't be winning the spelling bee
Mi spulling's are not alwaies purrfect. Now on an informal blog, the odd mistake can be easily overlooked. But when it comes to printing posters …
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Did you hear the one about the wooden train?
... it wouldn't go! Yesterday's train theme unexpectedly ran through to today. The wee wooden trainset from Sainsburys provides much amuseme…
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My eyes are dim, I cannot see
There’s a certain irony when this kind of email arrives from a US-based glasses/eyewear retailer who hasn’t looked closely enough to realise that Al…
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Can you tell what it is yet?
While some of the local food bloggers are adventurous in their culinary exploits, I'm not sure that any would think twice about rejecting this v…
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A non-recommendation from Amazon?
Recommendation engines are funny beasts. Normally Amazon's you bought one of those and we'd like you to shell out for some of these emails a…
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Does your town have the sparkle to be twinned with Disney World in Florida?
Does Belfast or Lisburn have the pizzazz to be officially twinned with Walt Disney World Resort in Florida? A competition to nominate villages, town…
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Ferry Aerobics?
While the P&O ferry is laid out a bit like an plane, not everyone sits up straight! Some take the opportunity to do some exercises ... aerobics, …
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MIT’s Personas - how the Internet sees you
MIT’s Personas tool is difficult to describe. It’s a little like peering inside someone’s head as they Google for you and watching them put togethe…
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It's a Phone-Book
It's a book. It's an iPhone app. It's an iPhone inside a book. It's a kind of interactive book on which you can still turn the pages,…
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Ulster Museum - a help cord you'd never reach and an emergency door that doesn't look like it would open?
So Littl’un and I retraced familiar steps on Saturday afternoon, walking up the steps, through the steel snail sculpture and into the sub-tropical cl…
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Belfast Telegraph slips up?
Every now and again, websites slip up. Sometimes it's the BBC referring to NI's new MEP as Diane Doods . Other times, it's the Belfast Te…
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