Category: Travel
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Resisting the Blackberry
One thing I’ve consistently resisted is getting a Blackberry or other such device for managing email when I’m on the road or generally out and about. The major part of my self-justification is that I really do not wish to…
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Cool listening and podcasting’s third anniversary
I was in the UK at the weekend to organize a couple of things re my move there next week. As I mentioned in FIR #173 last week, I’m returning to the UK after seven years in Amsterdam. New thinking,…
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Blogging from space
This is definitely a first: A wealthy Iranian-born American woman ventures into space on Monday bearing the flags of both countries on her space suit. Anousheh Ansari, a telecommunications tycoon from Texas, will become the fourth person – and the…
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An iPod, an aircraft toilet and what happened next
What a story! A World of Warcraft gamer en route to meet a fellow gamer in Canada sparked a major security alert when he, er, lost his iPod on board his flight. Here’s how the story begins: It all started…