"One day last weekend, I had nothing to do. I was visiting my old Radio weblog, and started wondering how many others had jumped ship like myself. 98 lines of Ruby later, I had a set of totally useless statistics... "

Half interesting stats. Though I think there's more, like me, who've moved to our own hosting and not updated the Userland version. And I'd bet that over the past few months, as blogging's become bigger the numbers have jumped.

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Other title(s) for this story: Radio Userland Curiosity

We take a walk up the mile and a half to the waterfall - all 16 foot of Shropshire's only waterfall! Bradley's not too keen on it, he gets splashed and won't go near it again. Esme thinks it's great and does a wibble wobble for the camera. Later we take the steps (behind Amanda) up to the top. A dumb move as I have to carry Bradley up (not so bad) and back down (very scary!)
We're there only a few minutes and unpacking, when I see Bradley disappearing up the stream, I shout to come back, he pauses, shrugs his shoulders and carries on. He's getting more and more independent these days. Have to keep our eye on him.	We're just starting off on our long, long, long trip. If I had realised that I'd have to carry Bradley all the way up! When we're nearly there, two women say to Bradley, "and you walked all the way by yourself?" "No! I carried the lazy bugger." By this time I'm panting and dripping in sweat.
Must get that hub cap replaced.	With the waterfall just in the background and Amanda disbelieving that we walked all this way for that tiny thing, we take a rest.

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Other title(s) for this story: Church Stretton

Amanda's taken them out to pick some strawberries from a local farm. We all pig out on them. A few days later I look in the fridge and see we really ought to pig out more on them. They go soggy too quick.

Flying like birds.

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Other title(s) for this story: Strawberries in the garden

I've more pix on the camera, but someone's doing the carpet on the stairs. These were from 1st June, when we had our first proper sunshine. I bought them a new swimming pool, more pix have Bradley naked in them so Manda doesn't want them blogged. Our garden is becoming more like lego-land, with kiddy-klutter everywhere. The rest are from the Telford Town Park. Esme's red hair looks wonderful in this light. And godknows what Bradley's shouting about, nothing in particular, I think he was just marching and shouting, he like doing that.

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Other title(s) for this story: Catching up

"(6) If you are approached by a salesperson, explain that everyone present lives together, in a huge converted warehouse in Long Island City, and that you are there looking for a "[secret phrase]." Explain that you make all purchases as a group."

Art or just prankiness? School kid prankiness me thinks. See more pix. Funny. $10,000 rug?

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"It's a solution relying on CSS3 selectors, so you'll need Mozilla or some other Gecko spin-off to get the full effects. "

Nice little idea, and Sjoerd seems to think his works in MSIE too.

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Other title(s) for this story: From footnotes to sidenotes

" The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or "blogs"), must offer a "right of reply" to those who have been criticized by a person or organization. "

Euro-bloggers would be knackered, but me here in the UK, will probably be left out of this nonsence.

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Other title(s) for this story: Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet

"test styles opens a popup window in which you can type CSS rules that will be applied instantly to the page you are viewing, while edit styles does the same thing but pre-populates the window with the style sheets of the current site, allowing you to edit them in place. ancestors is also useful; it shows the element hierarchy of the element your mouse is currently over, which can help you see what selector you need to use to modify that element's style."

Sounds well useful. Haven't tried them out yet, but will report later.

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Other title(s) for this story: Using bookmarklets to experiment with CSS

A competitor, I guess, but useful quotes for me ";->"

Weblogs offer enterprises an alternative to e-mail or traditional content management by providing easy to use publishing tools that create a unified repository of shared information can be quickly disseminated.

[Weblogs] save them from printing out documents and e-mails and putting them in folders.

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Other title(s) for this story: Traction tailors Weblogs for business process

I need to write a report for the Governement Office's Intranet project. In it I need to say what will be the next steps. So, I'm lloking around for some quotes about blogging in business and this geezer 'Rock' has pointed out some nice little bits for me...

With his budget and staff slashed, Connecticut state CIO Rock Regan is looking to Weblogs as a key tool to keep his organization running.

...the ability to capture knowledge about current problems and upcoming technologies and distribute it across a company quickly has become critical, he said. Weblogs let employees jot down notes and ideas on pages available across the corporation.

"We desperately want to use [Weblogs] for project management," because the department, which serves 65 agencies, has so many projects that it could benefit from a shared knowledgebase, he said.

Regan said Weblogs are proving vital in breaking down bureaucratic walls. "My people in general don't communicate well on projects," he said.

Weblogs are proving a way for employees to realize what they have in common.

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Other title(s) for this story: Weblogs winding their way into business nets