You may have heard about OpenSearch – it’s a standard developed by Amazon for discovering search engines and producing machine-readable results from them.
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May 31, 2006
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
May 31, 2006
by Neil T
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The story of the broken laptop
By now you may have seen The Broken Laptop I Sold On eBay, a site created to humiliate an eBay seller who sold a laptop which turned out to be broken and not to the specification that the description on eBay stated. The site includes various documents that were left on the hard drive, including a lot of pornography, pictures of womens’ legs taken with a cameraphone on the Underground, a copy of the owner’s passport and his CV.
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May 29, 2006
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Stuff and Nonsense
Had a good weekend – went to Leeds with Hari to have lunch with my parents.
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May 28, 2006
by Neil T
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Bon Echo Alpha 3
I’m testing out Bon Echo Alpha 3 on my laptop. It’s an alpha build of what will eventually make up Firefox 2.0, and is essentially feature-complete.
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May 28, 2006
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Document Speed
The latest chapter of the war of words between Microsoft (with its Office Open XML format) and the ODF Alliance has Microsoft claiming that Office Open XML is faster.
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May 27, 2006
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Picasa on Linux
Google have released a Linux version of Picasa, their rather good photo management software that has previously only been made available for Windows.
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May 26, 2006
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Things
Thanks for all of the birthday wishes over the past couple of days – I had quite a good birthday but most of my presents aren’t coming until tomorrow. Not entirely sure what I’m getting but I think they will mostly be vouchers for driving lessons.
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May 24, 2006
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Memelicious
You can’t beat a good meme, and seeing as I haven’t done one in a while I thought I’d do this one, found at Ministry of Information.
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May 24, 2006
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Eve of being twenty-something
I’m only a day away from turning 22 years old, which means I’ll disappear into the vague age range of being a twenty-something. Which is quite scary.
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May 23, 2006
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AppZapper
AppZapper is a program I’ve been meaning to get around to reviewing for some time now, however, a major new version (1.5) was released yesterday so I felt now was a good time.
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