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MAY
2008NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS
There are loads of great conferences going on in mayWhere: Glas...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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01
MAY
2008Manchester United Vs Chelsea … I wont be watching the Champions League final.
So this years Champions League final is between Chelsea & Manchester United and I couldn’t think of a worse advert for British football than this. It’s a repeat of last years rubbish display of football that was the FA Cup final, one of the dulles...
Blogged by Stuart Grimshaw @ stubblog.wordpress.com
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MAY
2008Tesco's Sushi
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Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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01
MAY
2008IE can’t set name attribute dynamically.
I keep tripping myself up with this one, IE is unable to set the name attribute for any dynamically created DOM nodes. It doesn’t matter if you clone an existing node, or create a new one, IE won’t set the name attribute. Have a look at this example: ...
Blogged by Stuart Grimshaw @ stubblog.wordpress.com
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01
MAY
2008Forum Absenteeism
Just a quick note to apologise for the fact I’ve not been in the forum as often as I would have liked, or rather, I’ve not been talking as much as normal. I have been listening! The reason is simply that time is really tight at the moment, and I’ve...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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01
MAY
2008GTDInbox 2.0.8.1 (Big Update!) [Modified]
Ok, I was lucky (which meant Sarah was good enough to grant me time off for good behaviour) to sneak some extra hours into GTDInbox, to compensate for the time lost to handling clients. And I’m even more pleased to say, this is a pretty big update. Most...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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01
MAY
2008SOHU Stands At Mount Everest, A Quick Review Of Chinese Portals
I was chatting with a friend today on MSN. I asked him where he was, and his answer absolutely surprised me. He is at Mount Everest! No joke here, this guy is working for SOHU and he is there together with his CEO, Charles Zhang to broadcast the Olympics...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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01
MAY
2008GTDInbox 2.0.8.1 - More Features!
I actually forgot in the last post about some other new features I added, both found when viewing a thread/conversation… Reply to Self (found near the ‘Reply’ box) Clicking this will send the reply you’re writing to yourself, specifically, to the...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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01
MAY
2008Thanks To Facebook, $430 Millions Into Oak Pacific’s Xiaonei.com
Microsoft bought 1.6 percent stake of Facebook for $240 millions, which valued Facebook at $15 billion. It has just been confirmed that Xiaonei.com, the Chinese clone of Facebook owned by Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI) sold its approximately 35% share to S...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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01
MAY
2008Webmission08 - What a cracker!
Apologies for taking so long to write about the fabulous webmission08 tour to San Francisco. Having completed, it feels like an event that occurred months ago. The premise of capturing a daily journal did not quite happen as planned except on Day 1, thank...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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01
MAY
2008NetStart - a candid chat with Lee Strafford
Last year, I attended a number of sessions organised by Lee Strafford to learn and if possible engage with his project NetStart (previously called Project Sahara). Today, I learned that after much time investment in engaging with Regional Development Agen...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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02
MAY
2008Effort Management and focus
This is almost a note to myself. Taking stock of what I am up to or not up to. I have three companies: edocr - well you know about this one! If not, shame on you! Are all your public facing documents available on edocr? If not, please act now… eveo - e...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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02
MAY
2008NS20 - 14th May 08 - Silicon Valley and Investment Readiness @ KPMG Manchester
Next Northern StartUp 2.0 event is less than 2 weeks away. The focus is on: Session 1 - Silicon Valley - why you must build Valley into your plans? Session 2 - Investment Readiness - Is your startup ready for investment? a panel discussion with VCs, en...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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02
MAY
2008Japan: Megacity 3D Mapping.
Japan’s megacities are really 3D - they use the z-axis freely. The urban areas are high density, multiple levels, at high zoom - the cities provide a challenge to cartographers and openstreetmap. And then there are the underground streets! Consider a no...
Blogged by tim @ thinkwhere.wordpress.com
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02
MAY
2008Four freedoms good, fewer freedoms bad?
As is the way with passionate communities sometimes (and there is no more passionate a community in Manchester right now than the geek/tech scene), last night was a meeting of a cabal - to some, almost a religious ceremony -......
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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03
MAY
2008My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 10th through May 2nd
These are my links for April 10th through May 2nd: Google?s ?Previous Query? Technique Spreads » Insiders View - If you’re not up to speed with the Google Previous Query technique, it’s quite simple - and name says it moneysupermarket banned by Goog...
Blogged by admin @ everythingability.com
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04
MAY
2008Visiting Giant Interactive and Shanda
It has been a while since I wrote my first post on this blog about international expansion of Chinese Internet companies. I wrote the post during a train ride from Guangzhou to Shanghai. As I am now traveling to Beijing in an olympic themed train, I will...
Blogged by Piet Walraven @ mobinode.com
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04
MAY
2008Is the SL school a waste of money?
News that education chiefs in Manchester have spent taxpayers' money on a school in Second Life seems to be predictably provoking some outrage at the news site. The scheme to pay £5,000 for an SL plot of land and to......
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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05
MAY
2008Misco enter web orders manually
At the weekend I ordered something from Misco, with the delivery address set to my office address. Within moments I received an email confirming my order request, no problems there.Today I received the Order Confirmation and Dispatch notes today...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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05
MAY
2008NIN album for free.
That Nin hint for May 5th has turned out to be a whole album available for free. Head over to nin.com for your digital freebie....
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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06
MAY
2008New adventures in Wi-fi (with Apple’s Airport Express)
After much deliberation about when and how to go wireless in our home, last week I finally took the plunge with a purchase of an Airport Express from Apple. Apple's Airport Express base station Having done a lot of reading up about different wireles...
Blogged by phil @ imgiseverything.co.uk
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06
MAY
2008NS20 - Speaker line up! Sign up now
Just a quick additional note to introduce the speakers and panel for the event taking place on 14th May at KPMG Manchester. I am still awaiting for potentially 2 more speakers and panel members. They would be a bonus to the exceptional people speaking on...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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06
MAY
2008Futuresonic
James and myself attended Futuresonic last week in Manchester. According the official site, Futuresonic is "an international festival of Art, Music and Ideas now in its 12th year occupying the orbits of both digital culture and music". ...
Blogged by Tom J @ rattleresearch.com
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06
MAY
2008Opera Dragonfly
Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the bro...
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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07
MAY
2008Opera Releases Firebug Competitor - Dragonfly
For web developers, the Firefox extension Firebug is a killer app and major time saver. It lets you deconstruct the page currently loaded into Firefox to get a better idea of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript needs to be modified to work properly (even allowi...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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07
MAY
2008freaky game
A flash based game including real london footage along with gogol bordello on the soundtrack.http://www.tooncrisis.com/Freaky....
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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07
MAY
2008All this rubbish Powerpoint must be telling us something
Chris Heathcote’s abstract pointillist Powerpoint toolkit once again reinforces the received wisdom that Microsoft’s near-ubiquitous presentation software presages the end of civilisation. Unlike the army of total Powerpoint rejecters, Chris’ soluti...
Blogged by mattedgar @ matt.me63.com
