As a birthday treat, Christine took me to The Box Tree last night.
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May 28, 2010
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
May 25, 2010
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I R Older
Today is my birthday. I’m off to Leeds to celebrate.
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May 23, 2010
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Musical tag cloud
That’s a tag cloud showing the artists that I have listened to over the past 6 months, weighted by how often I listen to them. As you can see, I quite like Ash and Nightwish.
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May 22, 2010
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When 2 become 1 – Bradford stations prologue
In my ‘Bradford – a tale of two stations’ post a few weeks ago I mentioned that many plans had been made to connect the city’s two stations together over the years but nothing had come of it. The latest set of plans have been published by a couple of local businessmen.
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May 21, 2010
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Digital Economy Act – somebody cares!
Before the election, as part of the campaign against the Digital Economy Bill (now unfortunately passed into law), I used a tool to contact the various candidates who were standing in my constituency. This was at the end of April.
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May 20, 2010
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Protecting your privacy on Facebook
You may have heard that Facebook is in a bit of hot water over its privacy settings. New information entered into Facebook is being defaulted to ‘public’ rather than only available to existing contacts.
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May 19, 2010
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Ferrari owner gets roflpwn3d…
You’d think that the owner of a highly desirable car which is worth £90,000 would have car insurance. You know, just in case something bad happened to it.
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May 17, 2010
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Resurrecting a dead OS with KernelEx
I’ve come across KernelEx – it’s an open source compatibility layer for Windows 98 and Me which allows programs designed for Windows 2000 and XP to run on the older operating systems.
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May 15, 2010
by Neil T
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Thoughts on the Apple v Adobe thing
A lot has been said since Steve Jobs wrote his Thoughts on Flash open letter, and while there is a lot of Apple spin in it, there are some truths. Adobe responded with a letter from their founders but I still feel that Apple do have a point.
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May 14, 2010
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The absurdity of international music rights
You would think that buying a 2004 single from one of America’s biggest selling Christian rock bands would be simple. In this case, you’d be wrong.
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