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Twitter Hashtag Game-Playing - a Novice's Guide

Submitted by Colin on 21 August 2012 - 12:30pm

If you have a strong aversion to Twitter Hashtag games, please do not read further (although by now you would not be reading anyway).

This could have been captioned as a guide from a novice, as I’ve only been active on Twitter for six months or so, and only after a while did I become aware of this diversion.

The game is simple. Someone starts it by choosing a first subject (say, films) and links it with a random subject that has a decent number of versions of it (say, cake).

To the Olympics 2012 - An Alternative Route

Submitted by Colin on 4 August 2012 - 10:43am

The journey started at Bromley-by-Bow Station late yesterday afternoon. Bromley-by-Bow? That’s not a LOCOG endorsed official do what you’re told access to The Olympic Park.....
 

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2012 Olympics
3 Mills Studios
ArcelorMittal Orbit
Bromley by Bow
David Beckham
House Mill Gallery
IOC
Jacques Rogge
LOCOG
Makers of the Mill
Olympic Park
Stratford
Stratford Station
Tesco

Inside & Outside the Law - An Olympian Row

Submitted by Colin on 30 July 2012 - 11:30am

As the world’s sportswomen and men begin to engage in 17 saturated days of competition, life outside the Olympian bubble goes on, and life includes people going to law in order to settle arguments.

Commercial disputes might be thought to live on the rational plain, and one could believe that the intensity of personal differences, whether played out in the Family courts or even in the raising of voices and occasional throwing of crockery of a domestic row, would not easily translate into a building construction dispute.

 

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Rolls Building
Royal Courts of Justice

Rescue on the Thames

Submitted by Colin on 22 July 2012 - 2:00pm

The work of the Tower RNLI Lifeboat Station

It’s a June Saturday morning in London. We used to call this part of the year summer, but other than temperature deviations there is little weather difference these days between the seasons.

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RNLI; Tower Royal National Lifeboat Institution; City of Westminster Guide Lecturers Association; Waterloo Bridge; Tower Bridge; Marchioness; Kenneth Williams; London Ambulance Service;

Inside & Outside the Law - Boom, Bust and Busted

Submitted by Colin on 1 July 2012 - 9:41pm

Behind the London Olympics and the Paralympics are the legals. And the legals are not based on two page contracts downloaded from the internet.

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London 2012 Olympics; London 2012 Paralympics; ODA; LOCOG; Freshfields; City of London Guide Lecturers Association; Ross and Harper; Dewey LeBoeuf; Christopher Grierson; Leonard Sawyer

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