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Gee, One Bold Storm coming up….

By Stephen Fry
December 11th, 2008

So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by:-

7 x Mini USB cables: 2 of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard.

Stephen Fry awaiting the storm © Samfry Ltd 2008

1 x Ethernet cable: into wall-socket of hotel room. 8 bucks a day. But using Ethernet rather than the hotel’s wi-fi allows me to share via a wireless network that I create on my laptop. That way all my other toys can be online without separate logging on and billing. Hotels make so much money from “high-speed” internet these days. Well, they’ve lost their once juicy phone income... READ ALL

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#oscarwildeday in the twitterscape

By Stephen Fry
December 6th, 2008

Well my goodness me what an extraordinary response there was to #oscarwildeday

For those who didn't participate or might have been away or not yet following me, December 1st was designated #oscarwildeday. I promised prizes for those who tweeted the best original or made up Wildean remarks or posted pictures of themselves or others in Wildean poses.

Collage by @taluta © Tatula 2008

It has been an unbelievably time-consuming but pleasurable task to find winners. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but I landed in New York on the day itself and have been busy ever since.

The three categories then are
1. Original Wildeisms,
2. Creative Manglings
3. Pictures

There are two winners in each category. The prizes, of a value exceeding rubies, are vouchers for a free download... READ ALL

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WELCOME,
visitor, to the official Stephen Fry website. It has been some time in the making, but at last Version 2.0 is here. Some regulars will, inevitably, take a little time to get used to this new frysphere, and will…

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