Peter Whitehead
Editor of FT Digital Business
Recruitment editor at the Financial Times and music fan (listening and performing/playing)
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Now daughter No2 has done well at GCSE... so we'll need some sort of little celebration tonight I suspect....
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So now Cowell uses Auto-tune to publicise his totally fabricated show. Feel manipulated? You should do. DO NOT WATCH.
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The chances of all three of this season's premiership relegation teams beginning with "w" must be very high.
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Gary Lineker needs to learn how to pronounce "Pearce". Every week he says "our commentator is Jonathan Piss".
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oops - just bought another guitar. I need help.
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@stefanstern Well Claygate is in deep shock at other recent events. The Times called us a "commuter town". It will take time to recover.
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Daughter gets all A*s and As at A-level (another boost for her self-belief). And puts pressure on her sister who gets GCSE results on Tues
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What's the current best deal on a smartphone for daughter to take on 4-month Australia trip? She needs robust, cheap, reliable etc...
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Today's demonstration of West Ham's dire need for good defenders will doubtless spark another search for yet more dodgy strikers.
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Any guitarists know whether Line 6's variax acoustic 300 has programmable alternate tunings, like the 700?
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I guess everything in France seems so sensible (compared to SE England) because they channel ALL their stupidity into the peage system
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working in August is like living in s-l-o-w..... m--o--t--i---o----n
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SWT - broken down trains our speciality.
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Old albums just keep coming back to life. Deep Purple's Stormbringer is today's revelation. Give it a listen.
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... a live chicken in a basket.
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Today's sighting: woman in stationers wearing balloon fairy wings and carrying a live chicken im
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Still breakfasting in France. Just got WiFi to work. Probably have to go for walk on beach soon.
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It seems the further off the beaten track you go in London, the more likely you are to run across one of Boris's bike racks.
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Why won't people open the train windows? We can hardly breathe.It's like a mass suicide attempt in this carriage.
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For a brilliant critique of universities today, see http://www.zefrank.com/explicit/ (thanks to @ho11ie for pointing me in his direction)
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On way to work to host a breakfast. Tho breakfasts these days are more like afternoon teas - lots of cakey stuff - no porridge.
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Someone is STILL using our address for their Orange phone account. Not sure how worried we should be by this.
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RT @ramclub Vin Garbutt Fri 16 @ 8.15pm. Possibly the finest minstrel, entertainer, tale-teller, and singer http://www.theramclub.co.uk/
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Who is paying for the seemingly pointless widening (by less than a metre) of a barely used stretch of pavement (c 15 metres) in Colombo St?
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Before deciding on funding we need to know whether universities are for teaching or research. Student-funded research is just not on.