Blog Posts (Page 4)
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Spotting a Fake Pound Coin
Supposedly 2% of all pound coins are counterfeit. But how do you know when you have a fake? I heard the news item and had a quick look at the pound coins in my pocket, and couldn’t see anything. I thought that maybe it wasn’t all that easy to spot. But then I saw one my Mum had:
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Leeds Festival 2008
I’m still tired a full day after getting back, but I thought it was worth mentioning how good the festival was!
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Radovan Karadžić’s Disguise
Radovan Karadžić, the recently captured war criminal, was doing a good job disguising himself as Noel Sharkey:
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Firefox 3 World Record
The Firefox team are going for a new world record — “Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours”. The (currently beta) version 3 of their popular web browser is due to be launched in late June. Visit the Download Day 2008 page for the official date, and to make your pledge!
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All Work and No Play Makes Facebook a Dull Network
The walls have spoken. In the last week or so, Facebook has introduced a new feature called Lexicon (learn more), which allows you to enter a number of search terms and see how popular those terms are on people’s walls. The graph of “party tonight” when compared with “hangover” is quite predictable, especially around Hallowe’en and New Year’s:
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Dell & Linux
I was never a big fan of Dell, mainly because it really annoyed me that they only shipped Windows with their machines. Reading The Microsoft File made it clearer, if no more acceptable; Microsoft bullied retailers to shipping tied processor–product bundles, effectively forcing other operating systems out of the market.
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Leeds Festival Line-Up
Woo, I got my ticket! Here’s the line-up so far:
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Delicatessen & Digressions
It was late on in the morning (ooh, at least 11). The conversation had wandered.
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Happy Switch
After spending too much time looking at images on imagechan, I was reminded of a perfect photo opportunity.
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Requiem
We are all friends