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Entries from August 2008

Uhhh… German Best Western Worst Bestern?

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

So was Best Western’s system hacked - and if so how? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
We’re currently staying in a BW chain hotel in Dublin, and we certainly hope we’re okay - that is, David is able to keep an eye on accounts from here (never you mind how). But this news of a German Best [...]

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Tammy Duckworth, you GO, girl!

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

Daily Herald | Duckworth blasts McCain over military policy
The former congressional candidate painted McCain as weak on veteran issues, despite his service as a Vietnam War veteran and POW. Duckworth touted Obama’s efforts at boosting GI health care and benefits. Duckworth now is head of the state’s veteran’s affairs department. She recently has been mentioned [...]

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Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Mini-Posts, iPhone

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters
That it has come to this: iPhone isn’t sexy enough for the Poles, who probably don’t like their one and only provider’s plan any better than the Brits like theirs.

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Railway sproggen

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

Ginny
I can has iPhone?
Via: Flickr Title: Railway sproggen By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 26 Aug ‘08, 12.51pm CDT PST
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I can has iPhone?

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Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Episcopal, Good and Joyful Things, Mini-Posts

Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere

From our viewpoint the bishops talked in secret little groups in their ‘big top’ surrounded by a ring of police and only emerged once to go to London to tell society how wicked it was not to do more about the debt. Many of us had worked in or [...]

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