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When flying out to Germany (pre-kneesplosion), ChrisC and I checked ourselves in using one of the automatic touch-screen check-in machines rather than dealing with a human. You scan your passport, and push buttons to indicate how many bags you have.

She stares at the screen and the little words of green )
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Public Service Announcement, in case anyone else has been suffering vague confusion when reading film reviews of late:

The Arthur Kipps who features in The Woman In Black bears absolutely no relation to the Arthur Kipps who features in the HG Wells novel (subsequently adapated as Half a Sixpence).

I did wonder how I'd managed to watch a stage production of The Woman In Black without realising that the protagonist was a character I'd met in a book before. I didn't. He's a completely different character, written by a different author, 80 years later. He just has the same name.
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A brief request: does anyone have any recommendations for an Android twitter app? Must be able to handle multiple accounts.

Beyond that, I've never used twitter other than on t'web or via sms, so don't really know what I want.
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A couple of times recently I've mentioned http://www.theyworkforyou.com, and been surprised at the number of people who don't know about it. It's dead simple: type your postcode in, and get a random bunch of information (eg voting record on big issues, attendance record, links to speeches, contact details) for your MP.

This is what the internet should be for )
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I'm not very good at reading LJ these days. Flicking through my friends list last night, I happened to notice someone's announcement of engagement. Following a link there, I accidentally discovered that someone else has got married and acquired kids without me noticing.

Accordingly, I would like to declare an information amnesty. If you have any exciting personal news, please turn it in here. Even if you don't have any news, I very probably don't know what you're up to: a quick summary of location(s), occupation(s), aspiration(s), partner(s), pet(s), child(ren), etc would be great.

People who read this whom I've not met in person are especially encouraged to introduce themselves.

Comments are screened in case you don't want the world to know. (Though I believe me replying would make them visible, so please flag up if you don't mind the contents made public).
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My apologies for the cryptic (or at least vague) nature of this post. I firmly believe that Christmas presents should be surprises and, while I don't really think the intended recipient of the present is all that likely to read this, I'm not taking any chances.

Text-based trivia as present finder )

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