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Latest cool web2.0 thingy
Just discovered LibraryThing. Fantastic site that allows you to enter all your books by ISBN number or author and title. First 200 books are free to enter (I’m now at 150) and I would say at least 300 more to go. The really cool thing is that you can generate clouds either by tag, author…
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A pretty good take on the bomb scare….
As spoken by Britain’s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray:- “None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a planeticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency ofthe UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber forquite some time.”…
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Microsoft goodies..
Windows Live Writer seems to be getting some good reviews. I thought I would do a search for “Temporary Post Used For Style Detection” in Google, As this is a sign that a blogger has been using it. Today it gives 147 entries. Here is the search window, I inserted it merely by doing a…
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First post using Windows Live Writer
Thanks to Techmeme I’ve just learned about this great new tool from Microsoft, The Windows Live Writer. I just finished making a post to my WordPress blog at www.geoffjones.net. It worked like a dream, especially the easy integration of images. Ellee is just going to love this when she is back from her hols. My…
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Ze Frank sums up the situation..
An excellent show by Ze Frank summing up fear and terror and the latest wave of idiocy sweeping the UK government.
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Write to your MP (Hard copy only) please.
Yesterday I visited tthe inner sanctum of the British political system, otherwise known as Portcullis House, this is where the most fortunate MP’s work in a modern office block with armed guards (Yep, like at Heathrow, we are all terrorists now) and a computer system that is so locked down even the poor MP’s struggle…
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Unfair bank charges – how to reclaim
What to do when your bank zaps you for penalty charges (click on post title for full story). “The Defendant has imposed charges of £30 each time the Claimant has exceeded his overdraft limit. These charges represent a penalty and do not accurately reflect the defendant’s administration costs. Further, they are contrary to the Unfair…
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Reuters Photo Fraud
Reuters Photo Fraud: “The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the…
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Ellee’s New Blog
Well after a lot of graft and steep learning curve (and a 23km walk to her house) I managed to get Ellee’s new wordpress blog up and running today. Really cool to be able to import her old blog with its over 200 posts and amazingly over 700 comments , all imported without a glitch…
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How to swap a paper clip for a house – Home – Global – Times Online
For those of you reading this article in The Times the link to Kyles website is this http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ Pretty cool taking: 1 paper clip + 1 free blogger account = 1free house all within a year, Congratulations to the mayor of Kipling Canada for been so blog savvy (although he should fire his web team…