nickjones
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Big thanks from Suzanne and I to Philip, Julie, Sarah and John (happy 26th birthday) and the 13o+ guests for awesome Harry Potter party set in the library / hall at Girton college on Saturday. Must say that fancy dress parties are great for lowering folks inhibitions havent enjoyed myself so much for ages. (Photos…
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Pleasant evening with Andy and Anna at Light in Cambridge, told me about another new budget airline to Poland Airpolani flying from Stansted. Amazingly he didnt know what mp3’s are. Jjust how different is he to me!
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And here is a company starting to re-create the old Austro-Hungarian Empire! centropestart
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A Plan for Spam: ” (This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the new spamproof web-based mail reader we’re building to exercise Arc. An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.) I Particulary liked this comment As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the…
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The story of Brent Townshend who is going to collect over $55m for the patent that increased modem speeds from 36K to 56K. One patent that proved very worthwhile. Wonder what is bill for legal costs came to? InfoWorld: Analog Devices settles lawsuit over modem technology: December 02, 2003: By : Telecommunications: “lawsuit over modem…
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Wow this is just amazing set myself with a photo weblog herePhlog – geofonesit just took a few minutes. I can now post there direct from my treo.
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Lovely story here about Neil Bush (Dubyas younger brother) as detailed in his divorce. Just love how he was to be paid $2million from a Chinese semiconductor company. In questioning by his exs lawyer Brown. You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?” asked Brown. “That’s correct,” Bush, 48, responded in the March…
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Here is reply from ICSTIS regarding complaints about SMS spam:- Dear Sir or Madam Unsolicited text message marketing I am writing in response to your complaint about unsolicited text messaging. ICSTIS supervises both the content and advertising for premium rate services. ICSTIS develops and applies a Code of Practice to the companies which operate premium…
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Great News – After six months of effort my site is number one and number 2 at google if you type in geoff jones!
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Here is a site explaining the UK Air Passenger Duty which they are at pains to point out is not a tax but an excise duty (interesting tautology here, I guess it means that Tony can stand up for lower taxes somehow). The amount is £5 to the EU and Swiss airports where the passenger…