Start your Really Big List in a notebook, an Excel doc, or in a note on your phone, and keep it with you at all times.

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Easy to slip in your pocket or handbag, the ICONIA TAB A110 is just perfect to carry with you at all times to read, to browse, to play games or to plan your day.

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Carry a notebook with you at all times.

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Even with all the familiar faces, you begin to forget at times that this is a movie.

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Similarly, Google Glass fails to acknowledge that walking around with a camera mounted on the side of your face at all times makes you look dorky.

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The answer, as you have probably guessed, is that all three are Conservative politicians with Welsh links who have, at various times, been linked with the job of Secretary of State for Wales.

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If you have to have your memory refreshed with your report more than a couple of times (or at all in a simple case), cannot articulate your methods of investigation, use an inordinate number of vocalized pauses, allow yourself to get flustered, or just generally look like a dunce, the defense attorney has successfully tacked you on a cross.

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Unless you're fine with just seeing where the wind blows you -- and hey, we're all for spontaneous travel at times -- you'll lose a lot of time on the ground if you don't have at least an idea of the layout of your destination before you arrive.

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