I’ve found that adding the words ‘handbag’ and ‘lohan’ to SpamLookup’s keyword filters improves its effectiveness against comment spam.
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September 30, 2010
by Neil T
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
September 29, 2010
by Neil T
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This is why I don’t pay for private healthcare insurance
Last week, the site where I had my ‘arselump’ removed started to swell up and became very sore.
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September 28, 2010
by Neil T
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Demise of Web 1.5
This month is turning out to be what Anil Dash calls the end of ‘Web 1.5′ – services which started before the ‘Web 2.0′ bandwagon started rolling, have not been popular for some time and are now closing.
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September 22, 2010
by Neil T
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The demise of Six Apart
Six Apart was a company formed in 2002 to handle the commercial aspects of Movable Type, and later its hosted platform, TypePad. Along the way, it acquired, and then later sold LiveJournal, and also launched a social blogging platform called Vox, which is to close at the end of this month.
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September 21, 2010
by Neil T
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eMusic – delving into the musical underground
A couple of weeks ago, there was an offer on Groupon for a 6 month eMusic subscription for only £16. As I download (legally) quite a lot of music, and meant I got 25 songs for less than £3 each month, this seemed like a good deal.
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September 20, 2010
by Neil T
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App-tastic
I’ve had my iPhone for 5 days now and naturally have installed a few apps on it. Here’s a list of them so far.
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September 19, 2010
by Neil T
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Yarr, there be treasure over yonder blue warehouse
I would normally say something like ‘Avast me hearties, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day’.
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September 17, 2010
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iBought an iPhone
On Wednesday I finally got myself an iPhone.
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September 16, 2010
by Neil T
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Time to dump XP
Later this year will be the ninth anniversary of the launch of Windows XP. Despite it being superseded twice, by Windows Vista and Windows 7 respectively, it is till the most commonly used edition of Windows.
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September 15, 2010
by Neil T
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A photo in every entry
You may have noticed that every entry of late has had an image pasted in it, even if it’s only broadly related to the subject.
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