Monthly Archives: September 2002

More wishes

I now have a wish-list on Amazon.fr - so if anyone wants to by me a French book or DVD, feel free to browse, my French needs improving. Even Kiff may get better than me through living in Brussels and that would be gutting….

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it’s a smallworld

This is something that everyone should try out. When you register for Smallworld, you’ll get a mail back with the details of a random person. The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use your social contacts (throughout the world) to try to reach to this person through as few contacts [...]

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stop the war

I’ve just sent a fax to Jane Griffiths, MP for Reading East. Apparantly MP’s don’t read emails - a bit technologically advanced for them. Anyway, I wanted to know her opinions on the potential conflict with Iraq and questioned her about the state of the Middle East in general. The site reckons [...]

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ikea IKEA Ikea

I took a trip to Ikea yesterday in Bristol. 180 mile round trip. Why did I travel such a vast distance to buy products which have been made out of wood in Sweden, shipped to China and then brought back to the UK via a distribution centre probably in France or Germany? [...]

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friday evening

I spend most of the week not working quite as hard as I possibly should and then on Friday afternoon have the exciting task of installing a new piece of Oracle software (no, it doesn’t get more rock and roll than this). Friday night. I want to be out drinking with my new [...]

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