Comments I've posted on other sites
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Compare the UK’s cheapest online brokers
A while ago I’d clocked that iWeb is run by Halifax, which is worth bearing in mind for those…
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Design Route D: Protocol - Mozilla Open Design
I like the Moz://a idea, but don’t understand why the shortened M:// version isn’t then read as…
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Returning officer - Telly Addict
My first thought after reaching the end was how much it reminded me of ‘London Spy’. Lots of great…
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Why do they bury the booking ref description? (Noisy Decent Graphics)
Except sometimes you don’t want the booking reference at all, because that’s not the number you…
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The Guardian view on online abuse: building the web we want | Editorial | Technology | The Guardian
I’m not entirely sure what it is that you’re after, as the article seems a bit confusing. Are you…
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David Bowie: legendary rock star dies of cancer aged 69
Re ‘Can we just get one thing straight before we go on? It’s pronounced Bowie as in “oh”, not as in…
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Decide Where To Live In London Using The Coffee And Chicken Method | Londonist
Providing a link to Sam Floy’s original article would be both useful and polite:…
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You reach for the stars, I go to the flicks | Brief letters | Global | The Guardian
Just off London’s City Road there used to be a “Britannia College of Excellence”, whose motto was…
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On the market: Contemporary art deco-inspired property in Frinton-On-Sea, Essex « WowHaus
It’s an odd one this - I *think* it’s actually a converted more conventional house, rather than a…
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Surprise post (Noisy Decent Graphics)
I hope it’s a design for a website for chatting to friends called FACEBOOKS
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Berlin Wall to be Rebuilt With Glowing White Helium Balloons for 25th Anniversary of Fall
@philgyford I was wrong!
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Improvements to smart answers | Inside GOV.UK
Having recently built a quick demo version of something similar to a Smart Answer at Citizens…
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Berlin Wall to be Rebuilt With Glowing White Helium Balloons for 25th Anniversary of Fall
They’re not “helium” balloons. If they were they wouldn’t have lights inside them, and wouldn’t…
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How designers prototype at GDS | GDS design notes
Thanks for writing this - I’m fascinated by the idea of designers who design in code, because I’ve…
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Reviewing, Digital Style | Historically Us
Thanks for the review - I’m glad you like the site. Regarding “Older versions of the site also…
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Who are the longest running UK bloggers? | troubled diva
“although the Haddock Directory closed in February 2007, and there don’t appear to be any archives”…
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The Ben Jonson House Group Blog: External Redecorations: Week 3
In the interests of keeping a record… On Monday a polite man sanded and undercoated our roof…
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The Online Photographer: The Morning Coffee 8/12/14
I’ve been using Feedbin since Google Reader closed, and love it. So many RSS-following people makes…
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Cool Tools - Feedly RSS reader
It would be useful to know why you consider Feedly to be better than other similar services you’ve…
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Crossword blog: are super-solvers born, not made? | Crosswords | theguardian.com
We’ve been trying to solve one a week (Monday’s, so usually Rufus) over lunchtimes at work, usually…
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Sherlock Phone-Box Shrine Desecrated | Londonist
I’m not sure why this is news - the phone box is cleaned up quite often, only to have the post-its…
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Shorter films (Noisy Decent Graphics)
How about trailers for movies, or the “Previously, on…” summaries at the start of TV episodes, as…
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Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield ordered to leave UK | World news | The Guardian
This is outrageous. I can’t believe things could go this wrong in this day and age. “…he wrote a…
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Letters: Peerless Wigan | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard describes Col Needham as the man who “created the Internet Movie Database” (G2, 13…
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Six degrees of IMDb founder Col Needham | Film | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard fails to even mention the huge number of volunteers who contributed the data which…