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You should know this by now: Windows Live Spaces is closing down in three days’ time.

If you have a blogsite there, you should get a move on and migrate it before 00.01 hours GMT 16th March.

When the clock strikes midnight on the 16th, it’s sayonara to your Windows Live Space for good. You will not be able to access or migrate your blog on (repeat: on, not after) the 16th.

This shouldn’t news to anyone. The Windows Live Spaces team have been sending out regular emails to…

FOR THOSE OF YOU you with Yahoo Mail non-premium accounts, you must be homesick for those days when your free Yahoo webmail had POP access and mail forwarding.

Since December 2010, those two functions are available only to premium (i.e. paid) account holders, as The Naked Listener wrote in back in 7 January.

Since then, I’ve been reliably informed (and reliably tested) a POP/forwarding workaround. The tactic is to set your account to the Philippine region. The U.S. and all of the…

Truism:
Don’t blame the young ‘uns for their attitude:
they learnt it from us older folks, after all!

The four stories that were scheduled for this week are now rescheduled for next week because of various work- and research-related issues (i.e. money problems):

• The unseen power of conditioning without you realising it
• Why the Hunanese are rabid liars
• Timesavers for your life
• Why the “Tiger mother” of late isn’t even a tiger

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Hongkongers are over the moon with our government, at least for the time being. Enjoy the misplaced euphoria until it’s time to wake the hell up.

Highly unusual for our government to yield to popular opinion, but every Hong Kong permanent resident (i.e. domicile) over the age of 18 will be getting a direct cash handout of HK$6,000 (US$770 or £472) from the government this fiscal year (2011-2012).

via Nuacco

Let’s remind those who need reminding that it is only a proposed…

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The ‘van Gogh cake’

Saint David’s Day

Dewi Sant (Saint David)

“She accidentally the whole bottle!”

(Read on and find out the whys and wherefores of this.)

Today (1st March) is the feast day of Saint David (AD 500?–589) , the Welsh-born patron saint of Wales. It is the national day of Wales / Cymru (kem’REE).

Cymru am byth! (‘Wales forever!’)

This is the country that gave us adjectives like ‘Cambrian,’ ‘Ordovician’ and ‘Silurian’ for use in the earth sciences and palaeontology. (Sorry,…