Two Canadian posts, just to keep reminding myse…

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Not much in the way of posting right now. I’m i…

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I’m packing the computer room up today which me…

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Canada is the tenth happiest place going. Go Ca…

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This sort of fits into the abandoned category, …

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Slate has, yet again, got some great photos up on its today’s pictures section. They are all around the theme of summer, which hits us today as it’s Solstice and official summer time.
I flicked through the pictures until I hit the Blackpool picture, 1981 style on Blackpool beach. It’s pretty close to where I’m currently [...]

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Almost a year ago to the day we received a letter from the Canadian High Commission telling us we had gained Canadian perminant residency. And there was much rejoicing.
We get to ditch the UK, and all of its madness, and escape to Canadian madness. We applied in July 2003, on the 11th June 2005 we [...]

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The coffee you drink as a pick-me-up in the morning could also make you more open to persuasion, researchers say. Evidence from a new study suggests that this happens because caffeine revs up the brain, not because it generally boosts mood.
Previous studies have show that consuming caffeine can improve one’s attention and enhance cognitive performance, [...]

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