A somewhat hectic day of toing and froing between the support forums for WordPress and PixelPost has enabled me to put a little picture at the top of my right-hand menu. Not just any picture, mind you, but the latest picture uploaded from my [photoblog]. Clicking on it takes you straight there.

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43 Folders has a post about Rules of Thumb, a series of books containing, er, rules of thumb.

Like:

Keeping Yourself in Shoes - If you switch back and forth among three pairs of shoes, they will last as long as five pairs of shoes worn out one pair at a time.

There’s a plea for the books...

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My laptop threw another wobbly about 10 days ago. Black screen, everything else working fine. And just after I’d got my internet access at home sorted out too. Turned out to be the same problem as before (cue old Doctor Doctor joke), fixed under warranty again and returned last night good as new.

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George Monbiot has an alarming piece about the ramifications of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill, which has just passed its third reading in the UK’s House of Commons. Read George for the full story. I can only marvel that handing a leaflet to two people will soon constitute harassment,...

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A fascinating article in PLoS Biology talks about the origin of the Mlabri, "an enigmatic hunter-gatherer group from northern Thailand". These people have no diversity in their mitochondrial DNA and very reduced diversity elsewhere in their genomes. The evidence points to a recent origin, perhaps...

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