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17 Jan 2020

Published by Norman Walsh

So. I’m starting over.

This weblog⊕ is my space to ramble on in bursts longer than 140 characters. The opinions are my own^†. If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds. Or just click the links below, that works too. So does searching.

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17 Jan 2020 at 19:09 UTC

London Pride. One for the road, as it were. But not at Paddington this time. #picturesofpints

17 Jan 2020 at 18:41 UTC

My streak is unbroken (5 or 6 at a guess): arrive LHR, spend 20-40 minutes trying to find the bus stop, wait 30-40 minutes for the right bus, get told for some reason is wrong bus (or bus never arrives), give up, take taxi.

17 Jan 2020 at 18:27 UTC

Signage and other information for the Hotel Hoppa busses at Heathrow is absolutely f’ing abysmal.

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^†I work for MarkLogic Corporation, but the opinions expressed here are my own, and no other party necessarily agrees with them. A full disclosure of my professional interests can be found on the author page.