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good job I live and work on the northern line



I love the register…


Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer
Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come by

- their sub headlines are genius!

29 countries (12%)


A couple more than last time and a few more than the time before :-) Probably should be worrying about my carbon footprint but life is too short!

create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Social vs Professional


I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want everyone I know to know everyone else that I know.
It’s like when you split up from someone and you suddenly lose a group of friends because they were better friends with your now ex partner.
Imagine this in the online world. It would be [...]

Social Network Sites


So Facebook is the new MySpace which was the new Friendster which was the new Tribe etc etc.
I was chatting with Davo and he quite rightly said something Anna and I have been banging on about for years. By the time you get to grips with the new site and make your profile nice and [...]

Google Desktop


So I’ve indexed my laptop now and was worried to see files from as far back as 17 November 1996. On closer inspection most of the really old files seem to ship with MS Office.
Now I know having worked for a large company creating software previously that sometimes legacy code remains simply because no one [...]


okay so here is a list of sites I know of - feel free to add in any others.
aimpages.com - soon to be a big player
yahoo 360
msn spaces
my space
imeem
43 Things (amazon?)
tribe
bookcrossing - a community who exchange books with each other at public places
Linkedin - is a professional social networking website
XING - is a networking [...]

wayback when


It’s always amusing when you do some surfing and stumble over references to your own stuff you had forgotten about.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.8letters.co.uk

See Australians are healthier


While we strive for five in the UK with our 5 a day campaign the aussies are going for 2 fruit and 5 veggies a day with a huge advertising campaign.

Dance party shut down after drug crackdown


“Did [the police] get what they were after? Sydney’s hardest criminals. You know, the ones dancing to Kylie Minogue in their Speedos and boardshorts on a Sunday afternoon [with] one hand clutching a can of Smirnoff Black, the other waving in time to the voiceover announcement. More on the SMH site