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twblog: On live blogging and in-flight wi-fi - http://ping.fm/GtgR2 - hat-tip to jaunted - http://ping.fm/79Jiz

twblog: Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Pretty much floored.

twblog: Ryanair incident testimony from a guy who knows nowt about planes but is kinda famous. Comments say it all http://ping.fm/9liFy

twblog: i actually played petanque tonight. It was awesome.

twblog: off for a 6 mile walk to a beer festival. Sun’s doing its best…

twblog: http://twitpic.com/8qnv - Inside thomas saraceno’s Observatory at psychobuildings

twblog: at the psychobuildings exhibition, hayward gallery. Very good, busy as all hell

twblog: http://twitpic.com/8prg - Horniman museum’s african garden: my brother does it, and here he is in it

twblog: http://twitpic.com/8poo - Horniman museum, forest hill

twblog: http://twitpic.com/8kxu - Vintage travel themed stuff in waterstones

twblog: our reporter ed robertson is off to gatwick to take video vox pops of a few holidaymakers. hope to have the footage up by end of play…

twblog: http://twitpic.com/8ksg - This week’s issue

twblog: subs worrying about how to describe daniel craig. ‘buff star’ has been judged too downmarket. i suggested ‘dizzy blonde’

twblog: @travelrants i’ve put a link to you on one of our top stories this week. We aren’t all bad ;)

twblog: guess the country: a gondola ski lift that’s also a sauna - http://ping.fm/Yz5qU

twblog: went to wikipedia looking for stuff on spanair’s safety record - the page has already been updated with details of today’s crash…

twblog: @alisongow - i doubt that would sway their decision, but i do think liverpool is a pretty likely choice. lucky youse!

twblog: @adders - nobody listened to the town crier. they were too busy looking at the town cats.

twblog: in a homepage poll 60% of Travel Weekly readers wanted the 2009 ABTA conf in liverpool over macau or tel aviv…

twblog: richard dawkins reading out his own hate mail is about the funniest thing i’ve ever seen

twblog: http://twitpic.com/7wht - Wimbledon common ftw

twblog: @ourman re: fleet foxes. They’re both. There’s no arguing with Ragged Wood.

twblog: @RobBothan: the usual really. bitesize news (visitor stats, new product, new campaigns, bla) and a bit of personal colour from the tweeter.

twblog: http://twitpic.com/7rcl - The issue has landed

twblog: http://twitpic.com/7r5z - Perks of working for a travel title #1 - free parsley

twblog: on facebook looking at friends’ photos of les savy fav at field day in london. /jealousy

twblog: thinking about a short solo trip in the next few months. idea me

twblog: BBC in-page links: good user experience, or the ‘walled garden’ approach to external links? maybe both? http://ping.fm/jwHQO

twblog: need rescue. send helicopter. will be on roof.

twblog: http://twitpic.com/7muo - Blue sky? Srsly? Let’s see how long it lasts

twblog: @travelrants - wouldn’t want to write a long one, but i could manage. very good on the small keypads, we under 30s :)

twblog: trying to find an mt-friendly blogging client for my n95. failing really quite badly

twblog: retweets: they have sheep racing on sark, with toy bunnies for jockeys. proof: http://ping.fm/cdLe2

twblog: retweets: they have sheep racing on sark, with bunnies for jockeys. proof: http://ping.fm/cdLe2

twblog: @travelrants - well the couchsurfing thing’s global. neither’s ever going to be mainstream, but can see it being adopted to a degree

twblog: struggling to find time to blog, but spotted this super-budget accommodation thingy on techcrunch: http://ping.fm/Pm3Gq - who’d use it?

twblog: anyone find their twitter badge consistently fails to load, even when twitter is up? the badge previews aren’t even working

twblog: @statravelbuzz - no need to settle for that - there are jaffa cakes too. and choccy fingers. it’s like a child’s tea party

twblog: everyone in the tw newsroom has spontaneously decided to buy biscuits. and we’re about to beat south africa. things are looking up

twblog: @travelrants - yes. now’s a bad time of year though. summer lates market = throw as many deals as possible out there = window card city

twblog: hello monday. good to have you back. /sarcasm

twblog: got up early and tidied the hell out of the house. Now sunday belongs to me

twblog: blog post - Beijing Olympics vs London 2012: let the inferiority complex begin http://ping.fm/NZCsC

twblog: watching old yes prime ministers. awesome stuff.

twblog: dawkins to purves, times letters: ‘don’t say ‘most people’ when you mean islington’

twblog: @adders - i sent round a style note about that. journalists + contempt for terminology = epic fail

twblog: off to new oxford street to meet some expat mates over from oz

twblog: posted a map of Olympics big screens around the UK - http://ping.fm/M35FH

twblog: ask500people did exactly what it promised - 509 votes in about 17 hours. except now the site’s gone down. *sigh*

twblog: w00t! holiday booking poll rising up the ask500people homepage…