Month: August 2006

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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