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Week 347

Weeknotes always seem to be written by people who are extremely busy and/or enthusiastic. Let’s look back at last week (346) and momentarily buck that trend.

Continued…

In Writing on 8 Feb 2010


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Links for Friday 29 January 2010


More Pepys talks at St Olave’s

Samuel Pepys’ local church near the Tower of London, St Olave’s, has been hosting talks about their famous former parishioner for some time and are about to launch a new series to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the start of the diary.

Continued…

At Pepys' Diary Site News on 15 Jan 2010


My Spotlight page

I recently got my page on Spotlight sorted out. I should also be appearing in the next edition of the Spotlight book.

At PhilipGyford.com on 11 Nov 2008


Photos for Saturday 6 February 2010


Metropolitan at Sundance

In December, Metropolitan was shown selected to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival as one of three films chosen for The Sundance Collection at UCLA, which exists to “preserve and restore documentaries, narratives, shorts, festival films, and commercially released independent films” according to this report on the Sundance site.

Continued…

At Whit Stillman on 4 Feb 2010


What's the fastest way to write text? A keyboard, natch, but the relative speed and rank of the other devices is surprising.

He claims he can touch type, but “I tend to make too many mistakes.” Well, guess what: you can't touch type if you can't type by touch while looking at the source text!

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A comment on another site on 31 Jan 2010


Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books

At Septivium on 7 May 2009


About me

I live in London, UK. I design, think about, program and run websites for clients and myself (read more). I have previously been an illustrator, modelmaker, futurist and actor. More about me.

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