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dConstruct 2008: part one

Last week I made the annual pilgrimage to Brighton for dConstruct – one of the UK’s leading grass-roots Web conferences. Now in its fourth year, the theme of the conference this time was “Designing the social Web”, a topic increasingly … Continue reading

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Catching up

Oops – it looks like I’ve been having one of my occasional blog hiatuses. My apologies! Since my last post in May, the following exciting things have happened: We (i.e. Clive, with occasional help from us & Claudia) started (and … Continue reading

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Not going to SXSW

After hearing about how great last year’s South by South-west (SXSW) was, I quite fancied going. There’s a whole Brit contingent making the trip this year, which would have been fun to ride the coattails of. As you can infer … Continue reading

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Apple Expo Banner, Paris

Apple Expo Banner, Paris Originally uploaded by t1mmyb We’ve never been to San Fransisco (maybe we will one day), but we did manage to go to Apple Expo Paris back in September.

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Continental Urinals

One of the things that I noticed during our recent tour was that urinals in European toilets are, on the whole, so much more technologically advanced than our own British ones. Mind you, I’ve never had to manually flush urinals … Continue reading

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Osterreich – Teil Zwei!

It had started raining during the night so we packed up the van and parked it next to the laundry room so we could do some washing. It felt wonderful to get clothes clean and pillowcases, everything smelt so fresh … Continue reading

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On our way to Prague

A well deserved sleep saw us getting up at 10:30am and rushing to pack and leave by 11am. It was a fantastically beautiful day, clear blue sky. Shortly after leaving we got a right shock when the roof of the … Continue reading

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Bratislava.

We got up early and prepared for our day trip to Bratislava. We had originally planned to camp there but had read that the campsites were ‘grim’. As it is not far from Vienna we changed our plans and took … Continue reading

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Viva Italia!

Buongiorno tutte! We drove all the way to Lake Maggiore, arriving about 8pm. 300 miles in one day: quite a tiring trek, really. It was starting to get dark, so we stopped at the first campsite we found. It was … Continue reading

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The hills are alive…

…with the sound of music! No we weren’t in Austria but we were travelling through the Alps. We left Lyon at 10am and struggled to escape, French signposts are pretty awful. Looking forward to the Alps we began to see … Continue reading

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