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A meaty fine dinner
Fillet steak, from Colchester’s finest butcher. Salted for 10 mins before cooking at room temperature.Seared on a ridiculously high heat for 2.75 mins each side.Served with some home made sauté potatoes. Devine.
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The nuts and bolts of writing
Mr Ben Locker: [1. Who is an outstanding copyrighter and fine beer drinker.] Instead of wasting my time trying to cultivate the kind of creative imagination I couldn’t achieve and didn’t want, I switched my attention to the nuts and bolts of writing — the words, and the ways
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Add to our Spotify Wedding Playlist
A question definitely best answered by The Internet. You can add your suggestions to our Spotify Playlist at the link in the title. For those attending, there will be a prize for the tune which produces the best facial expression.
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An Interview with @NXEastAnglia
For the past 7+ years I’ve commuted almost daily between Ipswich and Colchester. This coming Monday, National Express East Anglia will cease to exist. Although it’d be fair to say they’ve not been universally loved by commuters [1. Thanks to the complete failings of Network Rail to
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Inni by Sigur Rós at the Lakeside Theatre
Inni is the second ‘live’ film by Sigur Rós, following a tour documentary from 2007 called Heima. That film was a lavish affair, following the band around Iceland. Inni couldn’t be more different. Originally filmed at Ally Pally in 2008, the footage for Inni was then transferred to 16mm
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There are two types of social business
One makes money by selling information about a community. It’s customers are either you, or third parties like advertisers. It will often use a set of free products to encourage you to participate by creating, sharing or consuming content. [1. Facebook makes money by selling well targeted adverts, based
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Be an Educator for your clients
Doreen Lorenzo, President Frog Design: http://the99percent.com/articles/6983/Doreen-Lorenzo-Clients-Donat-Deserve-Surprises Richard Millington, Founder of Feverbee: We’ve lost more than a few clients by trying to give them what they need, not what they want. I have no regrets though.[2. http://twitter.com/#!/RichMillington/status/161512742732308480] If you
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Epic Discovery Walk #2: A gale in Lawford Dale
A proper, epic walk this week, taking in 11 caches all around Lawford Dale. Starting at the beautiful St. Mary’s Church and snaking around the allotments, sugar beet fields and woodland of Northern Essex’s finest peninsula. It was quite a trek. Highlights included possibly the strongest winds known
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Why? What for?
If you spend any time working with, in or around ‘social media’, you’ll eventually come to have two favourite questions: 1. Why? 2. What for? Want a 'Facebook Page?’ - Why?Need more Twitter followers? - What for?After a 'social media strategy?’ - Why? If there’
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Soufflé with Purple Sprouting
This is an adaptation from the utterly wonderfully brilliant ‘River Cottage Veg Every Day’ by the long haired roustabout that is Hugh Hyphonated-Whitebread. It’s a rather lovely and comforting dish which is fiddley enough to feel like you’ve accomplished something after you’ve cooked it. For two moderately
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So what shall we ask @NXEastAnglia?
The fine folk at NXEA have kindly accepted an offer from me for an interview about how they use Twitter for customer service. I’ve always been impressed with the speedy and (usually) knowledgable responses that come from their social media team, and I thought it might be interesting to
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Google 'Search Plus' was inevitable, so stop whinging
Google made a pretty big change to their search product this week - meaning that people and pages from Google+ now appear alongside your search results. Similar results from Twitter and Facebook do not. Predictably this has caused a stink, predominantly from Twitter, who allege that the changes will ‘make