This post is about Caroline Davies’ article “Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser“, published in The Observer by guardian.co.uk on June 29, 2008 [1]. I stumbled across the article after stumbling across posts about it on a couple of other blogs [2][3] (further information at end of this post).
To briefly summarize the article in guardian.co.uk [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Read The Freaking Manual, Social commentary, Technology and its uses, blogs, internet tools, useful links, web browsers on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a long hiatus from doing anything creative or constructive on the web — besides infrequent comments on various blogs — I am going to start playing around with various web pages and code and layout again. And trying to write more stuff in general.
I have been following a number of sites that talk about [...]
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