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  1. Just got on to Google Wave, thanks to @jmuttram - wave to me at engineroomblog@googlewave.comabout 5 hours ago from web
  2. Poor spelling can cost a company sales (at least if I'm buying): http://bit.ly/4v3uFF10:29 AM Nov 2nd from web
  3. The announcer on Five just plugged a TV show called 'Britain's Breast Bains'. I think she meant 'Britain's Best Brains'...3:06 AM Nov 2nd from web
  4. RT @OHnewsroom Photographer to Producer: “Our computers are so slow I could drive to Google and get the information faster.”1:39 PM Oct 28th from web
  5. (Incomplete) list of magazine journalists on Twitter: http://bit.ly/4ruBbT10:42 AM Oct 25th from web
  6. Sign of the times: a local gift shop was playing Spotify instead of the radio or a CD. Didn't even realise until the advertising started.9:58 AM Oct 25th from web
  7. Brilliant typo in headline of Daily Express column: http://bit.ly/2qSzMm Where can I buy a generation hat?2:07 PM Oct 22nd from web
  8. RT @gezd I love the stupid names that property developers invent. http://post.ly/91LV6:36 AM Oct 18th from web
  9. Balloon boy's father has talked of feeling "up and down". Very fitting!9:10 AM Oct 16th from txt
  10. Me being dynamic, apparently: http://bit.ly/31HWeX3:10 PM Oct 15th from web
  11. RT @StanCarey "I like the way it raises its family, / Partly birdly, partly mammaly" - Ogden Nash, in 'The Platypus'.3:00 PM Oct 14th from web
  12. '100 great blogs that young writers should read' http://bit.ly/WFCzA2:38 AM Oct 14th from web
  13. Scandinavian or Nordic? http://bit.ly/UmpzR2:50 PM Oct 13th from web
  14. Is it bad form to retweet from someone who protects their tweets?11:20 AM Oct 13th from web
  15. Just had a demo of Sony's touchscreen ereader. Readability is good but controls seem a bit 'laggy'3:46 AM Oct 10th from txt
  16. Another ambiguous headline: 'Grant seals return to Portsmouth' http://bit.ly/MB0UT11:35 AM Oct 8th from web
  17. RT @StanCarey Maps of global press freedom, 1984-2007: http://bit.ly/JhyDw (via @wikileaks)2:10 PM Oct 7th from web
  18. My word of the day is 'microperfed' http://bit.ly/2L8oAf #wotd2:41 PM Oct 6th from web
  19. 75 tools, games, and links for word lovers: http://bit.ly/i6sMM10:38 AM Sep 30th from web
  20. Just caught a GMB spokesman on TV saying binmen wanted "a fair day's pay for a fair day's wage"...3:00 PM Sep 16th from web
  • Name JD
  • Location Sutton / London (UK)
  • Web http://engineroom...
  • Bio I'm the journalist behind The Engine Room, a blog about language use, editing, publishing and the media.
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