Alex, I'm not sure, but I think we might have met on the LibriVox forums? (Ah, here comes that surge of guilt again for not recording anything in years.) I know I've been following you on Twitter for a while, but the origin story is lost somewhere in the mists of time...
I'd love to cycle along the canal but I'm one of the gajillionth of one per cent of people who never learned! I'd like to do so...
Pff. Not boring. I read it and found it interesting. (Although - sorry - I can't remember who you are or why you have been lurking silent in my RSS reader for the last year!) Do you cycle along the canal? The building your flat is in does look really interesting indeed....
The iPad is a nice device with a touch screen. Nobody offer this by netbooks or notebooks. I think this will come in the future and so the iPad is the only product that you can use to work with a touch screen....
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