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I confess, I’m a triskaidekaphile. WLTM like-minded others.

Brian Coleman #littlelondonhorrors

RT @bucharestlife: Avg. speed on Romania’s railways in 1989: 120/kph; Avg. speed in 2009: 60/kph. Where did it all go wrong?

Is there some sort of Iron Law of MS Office for Mac 2008 that says it has to crash at least once a day?

+ Why I’ve recommended chains in my guidebooks… RT @mrdavidwhitley Why travel writers rarely recommend the best hotels http://bit.ly/ngWnm

RT @katybeale:Our headline act for Sat’s upcoming youth event @ Tate has pulled out. Anyone have contacts for replacement? grime/urban music

I love the galleries that @TelegraphTravel stick online, and I love JMW Turner, so this from Tate Britain is for me: http://bit.ly/HgOk4

Research tells me Nikon D5000 combines saleable-quality images + light enough to carry with my travel writer gear. Anyone think I’m wrong?

http://twitpic.com/i2j73 - Graffiti wag provides ‘not the answer we were looking for’

Students send a camera into space, photograph curvature of Earth from 18 miles up… total cost: $150: http://bit.ly/lL2Ym (via @gadling)

My N95’s predictive text now thinks 733 is ‘pdf’ instead of ‘see’. Must be sending a weird SMS skew.

Will be chez @pemburytavern for tonight’s Hackney tweet-up: http://tw.pn/hfb4. Social, drinks, open invites all round. See you at #twee8

Via @mrpower, video (by @thejeffbrown) on some new functionality for Tweetdeck: http://bit.ly/2KElVZ

Hanging onto summer, kinda, cooking a porcini, field mushroom, pea, and soya bean risotto.

Hilarious, if you know the UK pol-blogging backstory. RT @antonvowl: New Enemies: The Anton Vowl blog list & awards http://bit.ly/r1nHG