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Listed below are comments made by ajvphilp between Saturday, 12th July 2008 and Monday, 16th February 2009.

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Going mobile in Barcelona 5:22pm on 16 Feb 2009 others may have had applications for years but the iphone made them easy to access to those, like me, who are not digital natives.
BBC iPlayer on Virgin: 100 Million Views 12:10pm on 15 Feb 2009 i tried this once. it was so slow as to be unuseable. is that the set top box. same cable connection as use for internet.
Anthem results 5:58pm on 12 Jul 2008 A fascinating area... As a Scot I've a soft spot for 'Jerusalem'. We used to sing it at school (in Edinburgh in the 80s) and the line 'did those feet in ancient times walk upon England's pastures green' conjured up Monthy Pythonesque feet stomping about. Only later was I informed that the answer to the first verse is 'No!' and to the second, get them yourself!

And the words to Rule Britannia were penned by a Scot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule,_Britannia! (which points out that the original words were 'Britannia rule the waves (no 's' at end of rule) - a fact that rather changes the meaning to instructive rather than descriptive...)

So either of these for non-royal occasions would be good. Maybe we could keep GSTQ for times when an actual royal was there?

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