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Monthly Archives: March 2007
We’re in the second round of the Imagine Cup 2007!
Me and my team, Rediverse entered the Web Development invitational for the 2007 Imagine Cup competition in Korea run by Microsoft and other companies. Stage one consisted of around 200 teams and required each team to produce a document detailing … Continue reading
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Grind’s my gears: Scraggly, struggling PCFormat: For white trash only
I read PCFormat and I have done for many many years but of late, standard have been more than slipping. With a bleak circulation, PCFormat decided a rebranding was the answer… smoother fonts, better colours, and the most white cover-girls … Continue reading
Posted in News, Rant
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Guido Fawkes on Newsnight
During watching the UK show, Newsnight, a opinion-politics based show (you just have to watch it), there was a five minute piece from the notorious UK politics blogger, Guido Fawkes. He anonymously created a feature which tried to reveal the … Continue reading
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XML-RPC pinging sites
Bloggers… add these addresses to your list of pinging services to help get your traffic up. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping.php http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://bblog.com/ping.php http://bitacoras.net/ping http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogupdate.org/ping http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt http://ping.amagle.com/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.blo.gs/ … Continue reading
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Clever virus
You may recall recently, that I had some virus troubles with Vista, where reading university banned me from the network temporarily while my virus was on my machine… Well, I perform a full system scan the other night, and Avast … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Uni
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Science vs. Faith
I saw this and it made me chuckle… science vs. faith
Posted in Funny, Rant, Religion
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So long, WordPress…
I decided the other day to ditch WP for Movable Type, when being extremely annoyed at WP's lack of speed and it's amazing ability to fall over regularly on my server. From the offset it was easy to extract my … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Site news
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This will be known as Chatbot day…
Huzzah! After weeks of coding, bottle upon bottle of IrnBru, and OS re-install, two network outages, lots of loud swearing, countless ganders and cplusplus.com, and some 900 lines of code later, and my C++ chatbot finally works! Boris chatbot working … Continue reading
Posted in Open source, Uni
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Google’s new iPhone killer
Many rumours have been spreading the web recently about the new gPhone – just a rumour that Google could create a iPhone style smartphone, with it’s own embedded software and technology. Google have now confirmed that they are to be … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, Mobiles, News, Open source
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Microsoft and the cheesy vision of the future
It may sound stupid, but Microsoft are thinking way into the distant future (3 years) of what using their collaboration software will be like in 2010. This is one of the most corniest things I’ve seen in a long time, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny, Internet, Microsoft
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