Posted on May 31, 2007 by lenina
Now that Big Brother 8 has started, I keep getting traffic again for my Imogen Sex Tape post from last year. Hehe! So folks, if you want to see the imogen sex tape, I used to have a link somewhere but I think it no longer works!
Ta,
and keep em cuming
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by lenina
Yay! I’ve put Digital Spy’s big brother feed into my bookmarks, like last year
Roll on. Launch show 9pm Channel 4. Latest rumours:
All twelve of the contestants entering the house tonight will be female, according to The Mirror.
from Big Brother turns Big Sister?.
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Posted on May 29, 2007 by lenina
yes, I’m finally off for my holiday in two days’ time. C00l. I’ll be taking my Vaio of course, and I’ll have Internet access where I’m going.
Shame that my digital camera is in Edinburgh, so I won’t be able to take any pics
Anyhow, the plan is to:
sort out various things with the house
get [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2007 by lenina
My friend automatthias sent me a link today to a Speech Accent Archive, where loads of people from all over the world (native and non-native speakers of English) read out the same paragraph and you can either search for a specific accent or browse via three different categories. The ‘researchers’ (i.e. people submitting their reading [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2007 by lenina
In the short time I’ve been here, I’ve encountered two instances of aggression in London people (towards me), which makes me think I may need to/want to take up some form of self-defence.
The first time, I think it was last week, was when I was standing in the post office queue, trying to buy a [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2007 by lenina
so no time to blog I’m afraid
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Posted on May 25, 2007 by lenina
Two quick news stories, both related to web 2.0 and privacy issues, which I thought worth mentioning.
(1) Students Criticise Staff on Net
Someone has finally picked up on what I think is probably common practice: slagging off your teacher/lecturer on the Internet. This must have always existed online to some extent; however, I believe that social [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2007 by lenina
Yes, I’m not too fond of Hackney. It does have its good bits, but there is a lot of crime. My BF’s new bike was nicked right outside our flat in broad daylight, within 20 minutes of leaving it outside (locked of course).
Alongside this more petty crime, there is a great deal of more serious [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2007 by lenina
I don’t socialise that much in RL. I’ve always liked my own peace and quiet. Even as a kid: while I did have a group of girls who I hung out with (and a couple of friendships with boys), and played outside with them a lot (I grew up in the countryside), I’ve always liked [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2007 by lenina
This might be of interest to anaj, who’s presenting a paper on Plagiarism some time in June.
Google has banned ads for companies selling custom-made essays:
… in particular there have been difficulties with essays bought by students from companies which sell tailor-made answers, where fees can be up to £5,000 for a single piece of extended [...]
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