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Entries from October 2003

Funniest story of the day..

October 31st, 2003 · No Comments

Funniest story of the day..
Just let it go: man traps self trying to retrieve cellphone from train toilet [via Gizmodo]

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Goodbye to all that junk

October 30th, 2003 · No Comments

Goodbye to all that junk
New laws on spam will force marketers to change their ways. I hope it’s a better idea than that of our MP’s.

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mysociety.org This looks pretty interesting…worth

October 30th, 2003 · No Comments

mysociety.org
This looks pretty interesting…worth watching what happens here..
[update] isn’t this newsgroups for the non techie?. There are thousand’s, if not tens of thousands, of communities that exsist already out there as part of the internet.

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Nokia to put digital TV

October 30th, 2003 · No Comments

Nokia to put digital TV tuners in phones
it’s bad enough trying to drive and text, imagine trying to drive and watch the never mind the buzzcocks? [via Gizmodo]

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Yet another Windows Virus Yep

October 29th, 2003 · No Comments

Yet another Windows Virus
Yep there’s another one, I’m sure they must appear one every day by now..

[Listening to: Lucky You - The Lightning Seeds - Like You Do...Best of the Lightning Seeds (04:22)]

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MP unleashes brilliant anti-spam plan

October 29th, 2003 · No Comments

MP unleashes brilliant anti-spam plan
this is a joke suely?….Proof that the country is in safe hands with the UK’s keenest minds working tirelessly to protect their fellow citizens from the greatest evil of our age - spam - comes with one MP’s brilliant solution to spam [via The Register]

[Listening to: Never Gonna Tell You What [...]

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Touching The Void Out In

October 29th, 2003 · No Comments

Touching The Void Out In December…

The film of Joe Simpson’s Peruvian crevasse / glacier survival epic Touching the Void is now due to go on general release in the UK on December 12

[Listening to: 1,2,3 - K-Klass - Universal [UK] (05:34)]

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Awful.. is it me or

October 29th, 2003 · No Comments

Awful..

is it me or does this phone look pretty nasty…Most phones are bought as fashion accessories..You wouldn’t get too many admiring glances slapping that on the table.

[Listening to: Rie's Wagon - Gomez - Bring It On (09:08)]

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mary had a little lamb…….

October 28th, 2003 · No Comments

mary had a little lamb…….

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A demo of this tool.

October 27th, 2003 · No Comments

A demo of this tool.
Here’s a demo of how easy it is to use this tool

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the IT job market is

October 23rd, 2003 · No Comments

the IT job market is picking up
Wired article on the state of the US job market and how things are picking up. if the US picks up then the UK will then follow on. This is a good sign and tied in with the expected increase in PC/server sales as PC’s bought in 1999 for [...]

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DSL Webserver cool…no need for

October 19th, 2003 · No Comments

DSL Webserver
cool…no need for me to write this up…it’s all here…DSL Webserver

[Listening to: Come Into My World - Kylie Minogue - Fever [UK] (04:32)]

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Optimistic IBM meets forecast Bountiful

October 18th, 2003 · No Comments

Optimistic IBM meets forecast
Bountiful services contracts helped third-quarter profits at IBM Corp. match analysts’ expectations Wednesday, and the technology bellwether offered an unusual dose of optimism about the industry’s prospects for a turnaround.
In the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, IBM had net earnings of $1.79 billion, or $1.02 per share, a 37 percent gain [...]

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iTunes gone already…that didn’t last

October 17th, 2003 · No Comments

iTunes
gone already…that didn’t last too long. It didn’t provide any extra functionality to WMP9 so it’s gone. plus the blogging plug in and MP3 ripper (which I bought) would have been lost, so it had to go.
I’m gonna start writing an about me page. I think the sites lacks and explanation of who I am.
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back home it’s been a

October 17th, 2003 · No Comments

back home
it’s been a very busy week…
just downloaded itunes for windoze will play with it when i’ve got more time
hotel did have a BT openzone which was good but my room was so far away that netstumbler couldn’t see it.
the web cames worked but not as well as hoped, as i had to use [...]

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