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While checking some details of my hosting package with DreamHost.com I noticed that they are now a Carbon Neutral Hosting Provider, as a result this site is also now Carbon Neutral. We’re so green! Carbon neutral, to be exact! And YOU host with us! So YOU’RE green too! Q.E.D. While this may not be ground [...]

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Let me state first off that I haven’t yet had a chance to play with SWX yet. However I was at LFPUG when Aral gave his talk and announced his ‘new born baby’, and I have to say I sat with a broad smile and a warm feeling inside as Aral presented and finally demonstrated [...]

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I noticed this afternoon that the space I had alloted on my MacBook Pro for my Windows XP Boot Camp partition my not be large enough as time goes on. As a reslt I began looking at methods for Non Destructive Resizing of the partition, that doesn’t exist. Even in the recently release Boot Camp [...]

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Click here. The location marked is not a desert or some otherworldly place as you might imagine. Its Ecuador on the edges of the Amazon. Apparently there is a lot of Oil in the Amazon. Ecuador is one of the locations mentioned in the book I am reading at the moment. I had been meaning [...]

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In this day and age where we rely so heavily on technology, I was curious and also a little concerned how I would cope on my recent travels without access to all my modern day trappings. High speed internet access, mobile phone, MP3 collection, PSP, digital cameras . Even more importantly how would all this [...]

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I have just been browsing some Mac sites looking out for Product releases that may be coming up and stumbled on this gem. Video iPods were shipped infected with the (incorrectly named) RavMonE.exe virus/Spyware. Obviously Apple were keen to highlight this would only affect windows iPod users. In there statement. “We are upset at Windows [...]

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This morning I stumbled onto this link via the WordPress news site. I followed the post through to digg and found some interesting comments on Optimization which I hadn’t considered. As we continue to move towards a more prolific Mobile Web optimization becomes ever more important. Properly Optimized content saves money. It saves your clients [...]

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Since MoveableType been made freely availible for personal use I thought I would try and find out what peoples feelings are on MovableType. Currently I am using WordPress, which operates absolutely fine, but, and I am sure I am not alone here. I like to play with new toys . So if you are a [...]

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Those first 2 years didn’t count. “The first true wave of flash sites” was in 1998?? If only I had known DOH!!

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You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley. On your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you [...]

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The ‘singer’ Sophie Ellis Bextor has been found head butted to death in the apartment of a French footballer. Apparently, it was murder on Zidane’s floor. Not funny? Fine

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I stumbled across this little link on the Adobe site. Some familiar faces, and some familiar products, its nice to keep in touch with your development roots! View it here

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The following is an ‘actual’ question given on a University of Liverpool chemistry final exam. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues via the Internet,. Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s [...]

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This week my domain referral and Hosting have been updated, and barring the lack of ASP support on my new hosting provider everything seems to have gone very well. Initially I was caught on the hop as the transfer occurred faster than I expected, but last night I simply updated the redirects and I am [...]

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A friend has just sent me a link to a sight. It’s unique in its simplicity. It offers its visitors the ability to freely express anything on there mind in a social networking environment. There is no fancy interface, yet it is entertaining, insightful and very very funny (in a childish school boy kind of [...]

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It’s been some months now since the Adobe Macromedia merger. Yet every morning it brings a smile to my face that there is still a little bit of the old company around. Not just the weblogs.macromedia.com domain itself, but also the fact that it seems to have survived the Adobe re-branding broom. Let’s hear it [...]

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Last night I attended the Adobe Live at Olympia last night, there was a great deal of discussion aligned with the title of the event ‘The future of the Internet as an Applications Platform’. Conversations and Ideas flowed as freely as the free beer that was kindly provided. There was some focus on the buzzwords [...]

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If you have any interest in the film Goodfellas or are maybe even a Movie Buff that is hungry for more pub facts about the God Father. Then a surfing buddy of mine, Mr Simon George, has just finished work on 2 documentaries that will be shown as part of Channel 4′s ‘Mob Week’ this [...]

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Today I was the proud recipient of an invite to the Windows Live Mail ‘Beta’. The email described the features of the new Hotmail application and very good it sounds too. Although one thought came to mind as i read, re-read and then scoured the source code. As a ‘beta’ tester i have already become [...]

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As a long time sufferer of the chronic mnemonic disease ‘forgetfulness’ this site offers a service I can see working well for me.hassleme and by blogging about it I will hopefully not for get where to find it.

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Following these posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. flashAnt avrians place Information Week It would appear that some of the earliest flash and generator work myself and some of my colleges were involved in back in the earliest days of flash has broken one of the most ludicrous patent awards I have heard of. Neil Balthaser [...]

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Taken from Gizmodo vai Boing Boing the idea is using materials bought in bulk from places such as Maplins you can make your very own LED ‘throwies’ to make pretty on those bland city streets, or indeed any metallic surface.

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So my mate Macca found this site that will take an uploaded photo and perform some ‘facial recognition’ on it and compare the image with a database of celebrities. I couldn’t resist. I happened to have a picture on my psp that I use in Tony Hawks so I can ‘skate’…. the results follow the [...]

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