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Can you find something more brain damaged?
I'm thinking of getting a driving licence, so I check out this site from the Automobile Association. And they have this little gem of idiocy: Get a £24 discount when you sign up for lessons online. Cl…
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Power is back
London can't let New York edge us out for crappiest infrastructure of a so-called modern city. No, we had our own little power outage this evening. I was in the tube but fortunately the power cut out…
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Recruit scum volume 1
(first installment of a trilogy in eighty-three parts) What is it about recruiters that they're uniformly clueless, lying scumbags? But getting more specific, why are they all terrified of email? Sure…
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Converting to Maildir
Well I've finally decided to take the plunge. I'm going to convert to Maildir for my mailboxes tonight. The impetus has been Squirrelmail, which Holly uses for her email. It needs an IMAP server and I…
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Untitled
Playing with Friendster I know it's perhaps a little old news now, but I finally got around to playing with Friendster. It's an interesting concept, and the implications are pretty huge. In case you d…
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Annoying ads are avoidable
It always amazes me what the average Internet user puts up with when browsing the web. Adverts flashing beside content, the throbbing making the content unreadable. Pop-ups in the hundreds, closing th…
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Is there some way to sync bookmarks?
I have a simple idea, but I haven't been able to find any software to do it. I have a browser at home and a browser at work. Both are Mozilla Firebird. I want the bookmarks to be the same in both. The…
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Why do web browsers still suck?
Back in 1994 when web browsers were new, we expected a little instability. Hell the operating systems on which they ran were pretty damn flaky too. When Netscape came out, we all justified the flakine…
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Email is down
Annoyingly, my ADSL router died yesterday. However, my ISP are absolutely brilliant. I phoned them up, described the problem and they've agreed to send out a replacement which should arrive tomorrow.…
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Engiporn
I'm always fascinated with what's underneath modern cities. It's incredible when you look into it how much of the infrastructure is under our fee The third dimension hides sewers, power and water main…
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Guess this needs a rewrite
This site has been mostly the same since 1998, at least structurally. It's been tweaked here and there, a few kludges hacked upon, a ghastly colour scheme updated to something more sedate, but never r…
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Yahoo IM want and deserve to die
Yahoo's instant messaging system recently blocked third-party clients from connecting to their network. Microsoft are about to try the same thing soon. The hackers have just sorted it out. All of thes…
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Music matching
One of the best features of the late, lamented Audiogalaxy music sharing system was the suggestions it made of music you might enjoy. If you looked at the page for a particular artist, it would also o…
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Video conferencing
I've got my camera working a bit better now, so if you want to talk to me, you can go here using Netmeeting or Gnomemeeting or whatever H.320 compliant thingy and chat. Woo! Should save some money on…
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Drool material
Sharp are reportedly releasing a Zaurus handheld running Linux. Worthy drool material! I have a friend coming over from Japan next month. Hmmm... Anyone wanna buy a used Ipaq 3630? More seriously, the…
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Webcam is up
All very passe, I know, but if you're feeling bored, check out my webcam now beaming out images from my street around the clock. Yes I bought an insanely cheap digital camera to use for videoconferenc…
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Linux aint there yet
Every now and then I get a bit overly excited and proclaim that Linux is 6 months off dominating the desktop. In some ways this could happen, particularly in corporate environments where it's importan…
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Linux users are commies?
An article in OSOpinion discusses a common theme from commentators who know next to nothing about history or politics. Linux nerds, he posits, are communists following Marxist ideology of collective o…
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Getting sound happening
Oh boy Linux has a ways to go yet when it comes to usability. Try dropping a new piece of hardware into your box and see how easy it is to get it going. Sure it'll be rock solid once you get it workin…
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Love my mouse
I just started having trouble moving my excellent trackball. Pretty funny because when I pulled the ball out there was so much gumpf around the bearings it rolls on that the ball was having trouble mo…