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100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?

June 2, 2010

Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account.  I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons.  But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of [...]

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Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) – Back Surgery

May 29, 2010

I recently had a back operation in February and only found articles that scared me half to death, so thought I’d write a little on my experience; hopefully to put you mind to rest. What is an Alif ? Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) is a back surgery that involves approaching the spine through an [...]

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How do i delete SVN folders?

May 26, 2010

When deploying websites, all SVN folders should be deleted, but SVN doesn’t include any built in commands to do this. The registry hack below can do this for you – it adds “Delete SVN Folders” to the context menu for folders. When you select it, it removes all folders named .svn inside the folder and [...]

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Can you Predict the X Factor Winner using Twitter?

December 9, 2009

I thought this was pretty interesting,  the  full article is worth a read, see the link below. Bil Tancer at Hitwise occasionally tries to predict talent show winners by studying Search activity, but there are now too many dynamics to interpret to be able to use internet data to easily predict X Factor winners and losers this year. [...]

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Cookie Sniffing and Trading

May 7, 2009

What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won’t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it? [...]

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Amazon CloudFront – Replacing the content database

November 18, 2008

Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the content user. This extension to S3 should get the content management system (CMS) providers and companies such as Akamai thinking. The service will allow the database [...]

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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

September 2, 2008

If your going to spend 15 minutes watching a video, make sure it’s this one.

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Solio – solar charger

August 1, 2008

It took me 2 days to figure out that it will not work when inside the rear window of the car. But, once i had it in direct sunlight the little red LED came on and i was filled with happiness. After a day in the sun i managed to get it to flash twice [...]

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