Meriblog: Meri Williams' Weblog

“A wealthy Toronto lawyer bequeathed his estate to whichever woman gave birth to the most babies in the ten-year period following his death.”

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I’ve started a blog to go with the Make Me A Speaker! wiki, where I’ll be interviewing the mentors and mentees and so on. This first interview is with John Allsopp and he has some interesting perspective on getting started as a speaker.

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This is so cool it makes me want to go live somewhere that gets serious snow.

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Sad that I missed this — sounds like it was a really educational event. There are some disadvantages to living up in Newcastle…

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Very cool composite of the lunar eclipse last night.

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Strange, but ultimately very entertaining.

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LOL!

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New 30 Second Bunny production — re-enactment of a load of Bond clips.

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