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Just got myself a Joost invite yesterday and decided to try it out. I’ve heard good and I’ve heard bad things about it. However, I went in with an open mind. Within 5 minutes of downloading the application the dancing crystals started to drive me mad but that’s just one of these things so I…
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As I have tipped the hat in previous years to this day, “Work/Life Balance Day”, I do so again this morning. Albeit a made up holiday by the government that will largely go ignored, it does highlight an important issue that nobody is really paying any attention to. I don’t think that greeting cards are…
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It’s official, the government have set in motion ASBOs for young people as of today. I have to admit that when the idea of ASBOs first became a pop-culture talking point, I was was very uncertain about the effect that it would have on the social structure. The whole branded for life thing was a…
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Autopinger – Automates Ping Blog and Podcast for Free Ping your blog. Ping your podcast. Autopinger.com does it all (tags: ping blog podcast update) Slashdot | Chinese Develop Remote Controlled Pigeons Remote controlled pigeons are finally here (tags: pigeon remote controlled control fly chinese) RFC 1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on…
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Just found out that I have been named as the winner of some Feedburner goodies. I’d like to congratulate my fellow victors, Frank and Bernard T and also to thank Paul who ran the competition and Bernie G who sent me in the right direction. Finally I will have a garment to be proud of.…
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I’m sure that this will not come as a surprise to many but it certainly did to me. In recent times family members have gotten the urge to give something back to the community and wanted to volunteer their services to local charities and such. Amazingly the response is either we don’t want anyone right…
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Personally I really hope that this doesn’t happen as I have grown quite attached to my @gmail.com address but there is a badger on Google’s arse, in a manner of speaking. Apparently another company already has rights to the gmail trademark and Google have already lost the case in the UK. If they lose the…
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If like me you maintain a mirror of your main blog and that mirror happens to be a conveniently free wordpress.com account but your main blog is based on MovableType then this might be interesting to you. No doubt you will have already noticed that you can import your MovableType content without any real trouble…
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A few days ago I posted a little article about how I feared that I had become a link whore. Today I read this warning shot from John Chow about the dangers of being, shall we say a rank enthusiast and going beyond the call of duty to improve your blog’s ranking. Worth a read…
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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center Ever wondered what to do with your free space in Gmail? Wonder no more… (tags: gmail database free space google mail ideas life) Mark Woodman.com Probably the greatest website that I have seen this week. No messing, no fuss, just plain and simple text. (tags: shell…