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Jan 30, 2008

Twitter Goes Down - Productivity up 200%

Twitter took another of its increasingly frequent nose dives this afternoon. Twitter has fast become my favourite web 2.0 type social networking tool. Even though I don’t really get myspace or Facebook I really like reading 140 character updates of other folks lives. Those of you on twitter prepare for 100 ZOMG TWITTER WAZ DOWN posts in a few hours when it finally pulls out of its tailspin.

Jan 29, 2008

The Florida Primary

Hurrah! It’s time for another primary which means CNNi gets to take away CNN Today and provide us with wonderful election night ‘alternatives’ such as Lou Dobbs Tonight (seriously who the hell is that guy and why does he have a TV show). Then we will have the ‘best political team in the business’ spending 4 hours telling us what a great political team they are and occasionally mentioning the voting thing that seems to be happening in Florida right now. On the other hand Al Jazeera may send Dave Marish to stand in a room and tell me nothing I don’t know. The BBC will send Katty Kay out in snowboots to talk to some old Nixon Republican and a desperate Edwards supporter and France 24 will desperately try to scrape together enough euros to afford a flight to Florida.

 OK I guess this is the point where I give you my view on the whole thing, I was kind of ok with Guliani until I read an article in Vanity Fair (I know, I know) about his sleazy business links and that put me right off him so I now don’t even have a ‘least worst’ option for them. For the Dems (even though tonight doesn’t count for reasons I don’t understand) Obama seems the best bet but anyone who isn’t Clinton will do.  

Update: The Primary has been and gone and the projected results have been borne out. What worries me though is how well Clinton did once we finally got to a big state. It will be interesting to see if similar results come on Super Tuesday.

Jan 29, 2008

Welcome to Burning Lemons

Welcome along to Burning Lemons, the successor to the Rants and Raves vox blog. We’re currently kitting this place out so thanks for your patience while we unpack and arrange the furniture.

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