I had my leaving do from the tube last night, a joint thing with Kim – great fun, and really chuffed to see so many people I liked come along for it. I got some ace presents, including a sterile emergency medical kit so I can re-attach my own leg if it gets bitten off …

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Firefox rocks! I am moving to using this browser full-time, it is excellent – fast, efficient, and more attractive than IE, with built-in Google search, the ability to add new search engines, tabbed browsing, and lots more. I don’t know if it’s using Firefox or something else, but my laptop seems to be working like …

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This is such sad news, what a shock! He apparently died of a heart attack while having the holiday of a lifetime with his wife in Peru. John Peel was a fantastic presenter, so funny, while maintaining the deadpan expression and tone of a curmudgeonly old uncle. Home Truths was fantastic, and Peel was about …

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Give it a woo, and a yay, and a seriously loud COME ON!! I’ve bought my ticket! The itinerary is this: London to Mumbai Mumbai overland to Delhi (while in India I’ll be volunteering with Aidcamps, seeing Rach in Chennai, and checking out Kerala, Goa, Agra and Varanasi) Delhi to Hong Kong (from here I’ll …

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There’s four weeks to go at LU now – not long given that I’m only there for three days a week. After such a long time of feeling stressed out and bogged down by the job, I’m finally enjoying myself again – partly because the end is in sight. It’s nice to think that, for …

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I just like that as a subject so I thought I’d use it – it’s the name of a good Ian Dury song, which was almost like a rap in that it was a long list of reasons why you should be cheerful – maybe just if you’re Ian Dury, it is all subjective after …

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