A Place Called Providence

So everyone is going on about 1968. I was born in 1961, so my revolutionary moment came at the age of seven. But I remember it well. We were driving down to the coast to get the ferry to France to drive to Spain for our annual family holiday. It took three days to drive [...]

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When I arrived at the office this morning I thought this was a clue that we were in for a wet and windy day. Sure was right - I think the building is floating. Do they know something I don’t?

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Amazing slideshow. My first ever job was just along the road from this depot. That said, I don’t think it existed in those days.
Securitas robbery CCTV

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McDonald’s to serve up ‘A-levels’
McDonald’s has won approval to offer courses which could form part of an A-level standard qualification.
The fast-food giant, airline FlyBe and Network Rail are the first three firms to be approved to offer courses equal to units of the new diplomas.

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Something stinks at Societe General, but I don’t think it’s a lone trader. Nor does Fred Destin and he know more about the subject than I do. There’s one thing I’d add about Kerviel - he may be a computer genius, but if he did what he did, he’s really a hacker who hacked the [...]

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The nice people over at CanonBuzz have leant me a camera for a month. Why? Because I’m an arty blogger. So I get my hands on a Canon HG10 which I’ll blog about here. Mike Atherton got one too.
I Can Has HG10? at sizemore Connection? We both are Seesmic users. Also, like Mike, it [...]

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Sainsbury’s car park this morning. No doubt making an emergency delivery for Halloween. It’s the fizz that gives you whizz …

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Walking along London Rd the other day, I noticed an intriguing sign on the open market.

So I went to take a look, and found a small piece of Amsterdam transplanted to Brighton. Amsterdammers sells those classic Dutch bicycles. Many (many) years ago, I worked in a bar in Amsterdam called Fat City, lived above the [...]

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We’re a FON member here at Providence Towers. That means we joined the FONEROS and got a cute little wireless router for free. Then we plugged it into our ordinary wifi router, turned it on and offered the world wireless access outside our windows. The FON router creates two networks, a private one that [...]

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This word comes from Latin providentia “foresight, precaution”, from pro- “ahead” + videre “to see”. The current meaning of the word (Divine Providence) derives from the sense “knowledge of the future” or omniscience, which is the privilege of God. The initial meaning of providere remains in ‘to provide’ = “to take precautionary measures”.
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