• Val Bourne – The UK’s Leading Natural Gardener

  Val is an excellent writer who understands plants. She was telling me today that she will only write about plants that she has grown herself, so you can be sure she truly understands the subject of her articles.

  tags: bourne writing journalist gardening horticulture

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• Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring

  Interesting read. via @Gordon

  tags: japan earthquake engineering blog

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• International Hardy Plant Union | Awarded perennials

  I need to get at least one or two plants into this.

  tags: international plant competition

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• Radiation Dose Chart

  Handy guide to radiation doses. Useful for perspective.

  tags: radiation dose science

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• BBC Sport – Football – Behind the scenes at Brighton’s new ground

  We’re waiting to get tickets.

  tags: football sport Brighton Seagulls Falmer stadium

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• BBC Sport – Cricket – Cricket World Cup – England hit by Yardy withdrawal

  Not good news at all. Mind you, Marcus Trescothick improved as a county player once he had the space and support to tackle his illness – let’s hope the same is true for Yardy.

  tags: sport cricket Sussex Yardy

• YouTube – Eclectisch koken met: Kraak & Smaak

  How K&S put a song together (in Nederlands, natuurlijk). They make it look easy.

  tags: youtube Kraak_en_Smaak music

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• LaCie – LaCie Hard Disk MAX, Design by Neil Poulton

  LaCie seem determined to make the support pages for the USB only version of this drive as hard to find as possible, even though they are quite necessary as installation is not straight-forward.

  tags: lacie hdd raid support

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• SyncBackSE easy backup software – the ideal simple backup software

  Unimpressed by the Genie backup tool that came with my LaCie RAID setup, I think this might be my preferred option.

  tags: backup software windows utilities

• FT.com / FT Magazine – The man who made Miffy

  Rather lovely, if slightly bittersweet, article about Dick Bruna. via Bob.

  tags: ft Miffy Dick_Bruna

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