Dillonworld
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Uludag - Turkish food awesomeness
More for my own reference than anyone else’s - but Uludag do yummy Turkish food on 398A Kingsland Road, London E8 4AA
And they do phone orders on 0207 241 1923
Open from noon to midnight contrary to what their business card says (which is the inverse).
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Hackney has highest Yes to AV vote in the UK
On the day of the Alternative Vote referendum, I conducted a simple exit poll in our office foyer. We have about 50 people working in our building and while the poll might not have been scientific or statistically significant, the results showed that AV was certainly favoured in our neck of the woods.
Interestingly, this seems to chime with the official results. The Hackney Citizen reports:
Hackney has bucked the trend, voting 61% in favour of the proposed changes to the parliamentary electoral system.
The ‘yes’ vote beat the ‘no’ vote in only six London boroughs (Camden, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark and Hackney)
At least this gives me some sort of affirmation that the people around me are like-minded. I think there’s a silver lining in that.
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People say AV is complicated. It really isn’t. Dan Snow explains.
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Persian food + E8 + roof terrace = Fesenjan
I was offered some tasty Persian treats by one of the guys from Fesenjan. This was a few weeks back and with all this lovely weather going on, I really should go there and check them out.
They are on the twitters too @Fesenjanlondon
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A bad day for NZ online ecosystem?
So, it appears the government in New Zealand is trying to sneak in its controversial “3-strikes” Internet disconnection law tonight as part of its emergency legislation dealing with the Christchurch earthquake. I’ve witnessed first hand some of the ridiculous disruptions this sort of legislation can do in the UK however the NZ legislation seems to be even more ridiculous.
My initial reaction was fury, however I’ve come down from there. I’ve written an email to my MP, Colin King - not sure what will come of that. If the NZ government wants to handicap it’s online economy then fine, so be it. I’m glad that I’m the UK and doing business over here.
Sure, the UK isn’t perfect either, but rushing through this legislation as part of a reaction to an earthquake crisis is really poor taste. It even out does Mandleson’s efforts.
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Unexpected filter brewed coffee discovery
Previously I’d been brewing 20g of ground beans with 300ml of water. However it’s just dawned on me that the ground coffee absorbs 165% of it’s own weight.
So this means that when I brew I’m actually not getting 300ml of coffee after all. I’m actually getting 267ml.
33ml is held in the coffee grounds.
Weird. I’d never thought about this before. I guess it doesn’t impact the water to coffee ratio.
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HSBC Fraud Team
Random diary entry for my own benefit. Received a call from HSBC seeking confirmation of payments made on my debit card. Apparently unable to white list these recurring payments for:
- Dropbox
- Hoot Suite
- oDesk
I wonder when they are going to do this again?
