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2008Keypad Restored
After upgrading to Hardy I noticed that my numeric keypad was no longer working. Not a huge inconvenience, but when you’ve got one you like to be able to use it don’t you? This morning - after trying to use it again - I decided to have another go at f...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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2008This is just rather incredibly well done
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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2008Snowboarding GPS Foo
After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded. Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our locati...
Blogged by deb @ urbanwide.com
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2008God hates LOLcats
Even God hates LOLcats. I still don’t get them, they’re still not funny....
Blogged by Stuart Grimshaw @ stubblog.wordpress.com
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2008Stuck on you
It was remiss of me not to mention it at the time, but during that traditional British pastime known as Easter Weekend I left the comfort of Cumbria and ventured south. After a completely uneventful journey (although there was KFC of the boneless variety)...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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2008If Data Is Money You’re Probably Burning It!
It really does seem to me that data is where all the Web2.0 action is. Because there has been so much talk about mashups it can be easy for us to be tired of hearing about them. We are all a bit Web2.0 weary already. Once you’ve seen one GoogleMap it’...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008Some good ideas from the government
Via Simon Dickson, I’ve come across Tom Watson’s1 post on Power of Information: New taskforce and speech. Some things quotes sprang out at me: We also need to look at the way Government talks to itself. Whitehall is arguably Britain’s most impo...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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2008I need a dead deer or moose, STAT
Who doesn’t?...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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2008Baidu Hi, The Compliments, Ambition, Disappointment and Expectation
Baidu Hi, the new Chinese Instant Messenger (IM) is in public test started from last week. Users were desperate for an invitation and discussing about it. The Chinese Internet is suddenly very Hi(gh). In this post, we share with you some of our views on B...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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2008What is VBUG All About? With Added Silverlight Goodness
Recently VBUG Vice Chairman Tim Leung, prepared a brief video about the work we do at VBUG and the support we give developers in aiming to achieve our goal of Developing the Developer!, for the Microsoft...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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2008Web stores must provide better accessibility
According to a report by the Retail Bulletin, web stores must achieve better accessibility for their customers, much like bricks and mortar stores do. This caught my eye because it mentions Ebuyer, and they rank pretty poorly, but then when you read the a...
Blogged by Stuart Grimshaw @ stubblog.wordpress.com
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2008Arse-peck
I was entertaining my wife yesterday evening with some witty banter on the subject of RSpec and was most annoyed that she wouldn’t stop laughing. As we all know RSpec is deadly serious so I couldn’t understand what could cause her such paroxysms, p...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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2008Goodbye to the BBC blog
It’s sad to see that BBC Manchester has decided to pull the plug on it’s blogging project. One of the founders, Robin Hamman announced the decision on the blog at the weekend but the reason for the decision remains rather......
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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2008...
Blogged by Daniel Cullinan @ awebdesignblog.co.uk
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2008GTDInbox and Gmail Update Warning (and the future of that)
Hi all, Just got back from a two day break with Sarah to discover Gmail has changed again. That was shockingly bad timing I’ll do what I can to have it fixed by the end of today. I still believe we only see a bad Gmail change once a month; and they nor...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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2008Semantic Hacker in Python (Code)
Following on from my rant on data…. here’s a quick example I made of using the Semantic Hacker API in Python. You can pass in a chunk of text or a URL and get back a list of categories that data should be in. Very very clever. I’m weaving this in wi...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008Getting the number of months between two dates in Ruby/Rails - updated
Here lies the one that works, not the old one I posted ages ago. It also uses dates instead of timestamp differences and should therefore not break if you ask it to go before the Epoch (some time in 1970 I think):Also see Adrien's comment left h...
Blogged by Francis Fish @ francis.blog-city.com
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2008TagTunes: Personal Discovery
Eight years of friction-free access to digital media mean I have so much music that it's becoming easy to forget what I do and don't own. I know I have all four Bethany Curve albums, but after recently watching couple......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008My Xbox 360 Doesn't Understand Me!
Shortly before Tech Ed Developers 2007 I bought myself an Xbox 360. I'd resisted buying a new games console for many years, my previous machine being a Sega Master System :-o. My reasoning behind not buying one was that I don't get enough chance t...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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2008slick or slack?
Chad Fowler has just launched Slick or Slack, a website where we can all review and compare code snippets for the Quality that has no name. Great idea — I’m hooked already!...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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2008Urgent Update to GTDInbox 2.0.5
I fixed the impact of the last Gmail change that stopped GTDInbox loading, and it was embarrassingly trivial (just a line of code to change!). So I took the opportunity to add a new ‘emergency traffic light’ feature - an amber or red bulb that can be...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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2008Arduino Wireless Workshop
Rob is going to be attending the Arduino Wireless Workshop at the end of May. If you're not familiar with the Arduino boards then go and have a look at the ...
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2008Arduino Wireless Workshop
Rob is going to be attending the Arduino Wireless Workshop at the end of May. If you're not familiar with the Arduino boards then go and have a look at the ...
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2008Lack of Posts
Sorry for the recnt lack of tutorails and posts (to anyone who may be reading!!!) but we have been really busy here at Cullinan Web Services. But I am writing to let you know that coming soon is a brand new tutorial on developing a page using CSS and also...
Blogged by Daniel Cullinan @ awebdesignblog.co.uk
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2008IMTC 2008 - IIS 7 for ASP.Net Developers Teaser
Here is a brief introduction to my session IIS 7 for ASP.net Developers which I will be presenting at IMTC 2008 in Dublin on Friday 4th April 2008 at 11:30. <iframe style="width: 500px; height: 375px" s...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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2008the next AgileNorth event
Sketchy information is beginning to emerge about a new half-day AgileNorth event that’s scheduled for a Saturday around the end of April. It will be free to attend, it will be hosted at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, and it will f...
Blogged by Kevin Rutherford @ silkandspinach.net
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2008Royal Mint releases new designs
I have no idea how old this page is, but I think it’s pretty current. The Royal Mint have released pictures of the newly designed british coins, and I have to say, I think they’re great. The use of the Royal Arms is logical, and the fact that for once...
Blogged by Steve @ tekopia.co.uk
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2008It’s a good time for Geeks to watch TV
For those of us who still watch TV in the more traditional way, these shows all start with new series this weekend: My Name Is Earl Dr Who Battlestar Galactica I’m still a whole series behind on BG, and I didn’t even realise that they’d made a new...
Blogged by Stuart Grimshaw @ stubblog.wordpress.com
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2008Interspersing your post listing with date headers in WordPress
Update: OK, so at least one person wanted it as a plugin, so feel free to download Intermittent Date Headers. Here’s a code snippet that’s not really worth making into a plugin. It’s designed to put date headers into your main post listing pag...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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2008GTDInbox 2.0.6 Available for Manual Install
My apologies, I overlooked a more subtle bug in the 2.0.5 release caused by the same problem - which many of you were seeing as the Labels box constantly growing and growing… I didn’t actually experience that bug, but nonetheless, I have high hopes th...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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2008This week at BT BizBox
Hi, As promised I am writing to give you an update on where we are with the new look and feel for BT BizBox. We have created the designs for all the functional areas and are now completing work on the coding before we going into the testing process. In ad...
Blogged by slaycock @ btbizbox.com
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2008Google Dewey Update
So its reported elsewhere on the Internets that Matt Cutts, Googles resident spin doctor has leaked information about the Google Dewey update. The change happened late March and has caused tremors in the SEO community with SREPS going up and down faster.....
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2008Google Dewey Update
So its reported elsewhere on the Internets that Matt Cutts, Googles resident spin doctor has leaked information about the Google Dewey update. The change happened late March and has caused tremors in the SEO community with SREPS going up and down faster.....
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2008Penetrating Wagner’s Ring
Really, who thought “Penetrating Wagner’s Ring” was a good title for a book? The reviews are great: As implied by the title, this collection probes deeply into Wagner’s vast Ring piece. Accusations of anti-semitism make Wagner’s Ring a sensitiv...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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2008I am whoever I say I am
In contrast to Martin and Daniel, I really don’t care how you refer to me. My parents called me David, most people call me Dave, in my teenage years a few friends only referred to me as Murph or Murphy, particular ex-colleagues persist in using my child...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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2008Slightly naughty
In IRC: Wlll: “My name is Anne van Kesteren and contrary to what many people think, I’m a male.” Wlll: The internet needs more laydees. Wlll: 3D laydees that is. ciaran29d: :| Wlll: ones who can program Ruby Wlll: And are hot. ciaran29d: heh Wl...
Blogged by Will @ willj.net
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2008ZendCon Call For Papers
The ZendCon Call For Papers is now open. This conference is one of the biggest of the year but unfortunately is only held in the US. This year I am planning to submit talks for conside...
Blogged by LornaJane @ lornajane.net
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2008OpenCoffee Leeds {April} + Coworking Day
Last month's OpenCoffee {March} could have been a bit of a downer, with only a handful of people attending. I'm still wondering if I shoulda canceled it while I was in the US for ETech and eComm, but sounds like......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008Dotnorth Snippets...
A quick roundup of techly-geek things happening across the North... The results of the Leeds Flickr Group's Photoshop CS3 course are online... Look out for Andy Mitchell's GTDInbox, a Firefox addon that mods Gmail to reflect the Getting Things Done......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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2008Re-blogging
After much delay, I’m going to start blogging again. Really, I am What with one thing and another I somehow fell out of the way of it, but I’m going to make a concerted effort to make sure I keep it going this time. Just a quick disclaimer, though: m...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Pixel proof
From xkcd. Original post here. Share on From www.guyrintoul.com | © See copyright information...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Pixel proof
From xkcd. Original post here. Share on From www.guyrintoul.com | © See copyright information...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008The new Tiananmen?
“As many as eight Tibetans may have been killed when paramilitary police opened fire during protests in Sichuan province, according to Tibetan support groups. They say the protesters were gunned down in the Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture when polic...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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20086 year old Gnome bug picks up pace
This bug regarding the Nautilus image thumbnailer performance was reported almost 6 years ago. It had input on it at the rate of around one message every two months, up until the end of 2003 - then nothing until 2006, where duplicate bug reports start...
Blogged by john @ johnleach.co.uk
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2008New grid, fewer jobs
Despite not blogging for months, I read this article in January and kept a note of it. While the expansion of the National Grid resulted in increased wealth and prosperity for many individuals, the expansion of the Internet has resulted in job losses and...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Zombies!
I've only just discovered that I missed 700 zombies in millenium square a couple of weeks back. I think I need to find some zombie related mailing l...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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2008Zombies!
I've only just discovered that I missed 700 zombies in millenium square a couple of weeks back. I think I need to find some zombie related mailing l...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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2008You had to be there…
So Doug says… I hate it when you are working your arse off on a project and being fairly obsessive, like I can be, and there you are actually creating sites, coding in your sleep… and it’s just not RESTful. … and we all fell about laughing, wonder...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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2008Kids start young these days
It rings so true From bLaugh, here. Share on From www.guyrintoul.com | © See copyright information...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Problems mounting a Debian drive over AFP
It took me ages to find the answer to this, so I figured I’d post the answer for posterity; hopefully between us, Google and I can help the next person avoid that hassle. I’ve created a Debian virtual server in Parallels for some development work. To...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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2008Breasts and banking a bad mix
“A new brain-scan study may help explain what’s going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles - sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Al-Qaeda supporters wavering?
Senior al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been defending the terrorist organisation’s tactics. Nothing new there, it would seem - except that the rebuttals are against those who would normally be supporters but are now increasingly questioning the gr...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Specify the Finder icon with Avahi
Yesterday, I blogged about my various issues setting up Apple Filesharing on the Debian virtual server I’ve got running in Parallels. As of OS X 10.5, Leopard, the Finder has a shared area which shows the machines it’s discovered via Bonjour so you ca...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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2008Problems with .htaccess and AFP over Netatalk
After yesterdays triumph of establishing contact with my virtual server over AFP, using Netatalk, I was perplexed today to find that my .htaccess files weren’t having any effect. Listing the files on the shared volume on my Mac seemed to show that they...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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2008Fuelling change
Time reports on increasing evidence that biofuels may not be the eco-friendly solution to oil dependence that they are made out to be. Not only do they result in land being used to grow fuel rather than food, but the planting of these crops causes large-s...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Fuelling change
Time reports on increasing evidence that biofuels may not be the eco-friendly solution to oil dependence that they are made out to be. Not only do they result in land being used to grow fuel rather than food, but the planting of these crops causes large-s...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Facebook Chat limited launch
Facebook’s much-anticipated IM client, Facebook Chat, has launched on a limited pre-beta release. Currently only available to certain networks, the new feature will allow friends to chat directly from within their web browsers. Initial reviews from thos...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Facebook Chat limited launch
Facebook’s much-anticipated IM client, Facebook Chat, has launched on a limited pre-beta release. Currently only available to certain networks, the new feature will allow friends to chat directly from within their web browsers. Initial reviews from thos...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Book review: As used on…
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela Mark Thomas Rating: I read quite a lot, and as I like giving my opinions (that’s what this blog’s for, after all) I thought I’d start writing some reviews However, as external websites provide fuller informatio...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008DBSOD [Flickr]
James Simm posted a photo: ...
Blogged by James Simm @ jimmahdigital.com
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2008How To Be Content With Your Life in Tech (or Why Your Work With Web 2.0 Is Not A Waste of Time)
A couple of weeks ago, Paul Robinson, the organizer of the excellent BarCamp Manchester, wrote “The Vision Thing“, a piece where he ponders on the banality of the Web-related industry. Andy Mitchell quickly followed up with “10 Reasons I Hate Where...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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2008Impulse Buyer!
I'm a bit of an impulse buyer. I see something online or in a bricks-and-mortar shop, and decide I want it.My most recent grab was my EEEPC, but before that it was my Playstation 3, then my MDA Vario III, and before that it was a Wii, then a Nab...
Blogged by Jon Spriggs @ jon.spriggs.org.uk
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2008Upgrading Wordpress
I’m in the process of upgrading Wordpress (the software that powers this blog) along with all the plugins and customisations that I use on here. As a result, there may be some glitches or creases I need to iron out over the next day or two. If you do sp...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Liberation leaders
“While the new rulers accepted the notions of Western-style multiparty democracy, in their hearts the liberation movements did not contemplate that they could lose power at the ballot box. Zimbabwe is the first country to face this crisis.” Time take...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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2008Liberation leaders
“While the new rulers accepted the notions of Western-style multiparty democracy, in their hearts the liberation movements did not contemplate that they could lose power at the ballot box … Zimbabwe is the first country to face this crisis.” Time t...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
