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Trip’s Tweets
So Trip Adler failed to show for his Litopia duel of words. Here's something that may explain his reluctance . Yes folks - it's Trip's own attempt at a book: http://www.lulu.com/content/506511 And in case you're wondering just what could have kept this thrusting...
Living Off the Proceeds of Crime?
There has been a lot of debate in the past few days about the document sharing website Scribd. The publishers of authors such as JK Rowling and Ken Follett have been shocked to discover their books uploaded to the site in clear breach of copyright. While Scribd...
April Fool
April Fool's Day - I love it! Although whoever decided to hold the G20 summit today was clearly having a laugh. In case you're stuck for inspiration, I've decided to share a couple of my favourite pranks with you. They're straight out of my former convent school dorm...
Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Ten…
Today is the tenth birthday of someone rather special (Happy Birthday Lucy!) and it got me thinking. When I was ten, I was living a carefree existence in Hong Kong, blissfully unaware of the convent boarding school that awaited me in rainy, grey England. I was a...
Man Killed by Komodo Dragon
I read the news that a fruit picker on Komodo had been killed by the famous giant local lizards and felt one of those shivers of coincidence. Only two days ago, I was talking Komodo dragons with an expert in the field as part of my research for my top secret new...
Credit Without the Crunch
Here's an organisation the fat cat bankers would have done well to emulate: www.kiva.org Kiva is one of those brilliant ideas the Internet should be about. It's an organisation that works with microloan foundations to provide small amounts to entrepreneurs in the...