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Work Report - February 2010

Margarine v Butter

February 18th 2010 07:28
There's been an email chain letter doing the rounds (since 2005, apparently) which says that
cow's and goat's butter
in spite of all the supposed health benefits of margarine, and the badness of butter, butter is actually better for the body.

I last got this email in 2007, so it's not exactly new, and it was so littered with arrowheads that it was barely readable. Seems like a bunch of emailers had reposted it and reposted it instead of just forwarding it


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Any portal in a storm

February 17th 2010 08:42
You'll all have heard of loose cannons. Well today, Stanton,I want to talk a little about loose diamonds.

{Stanton? Who's he? When I used to write a column for the local newspaper, I'd occasionally address a fictional person by the name of Stanton. Some people just didn't get it - in particular the person who was on the board of the shop of which I was manager, who somehow thought I was referring to him, because his name also happened to be Stanton...oh well


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Brooker and Kindle

February 17th 2010 08:12
Charlie Brooker
One of the Guardian writers I read fairly regularly is Charlie Brooker. He can be a bit crude for my taste on occasions, but apart from that he has a neat wit, and plenty of imagination. In fact, it's hard to quote him without missing the overall swing of his writing.

In a recent piece he wrote about being given a Kindle e-reader. As a result he became an immediate e-book fan after having denigrated the whole idea up until then. It wasn't specifically because of the Kindle, but more because of the way in which his imagination runs riot with the previously unrealized possibilities of this kind of machine


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