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When will online advertisers learn?
With the hype over Web 2.0, it's funny how many online advertisers are still using the same crass techniques of the web's earlier years. Within a minute of each other, I just got hit by three of th...
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It lives!
The top-secret project I've been working on since moving down to London at the end of October had a still-quite-secret launch late last week and now we're ready to tell a few more people. Withou...
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A long, long day
Well, it's 4:34am and I'm just about to go to bed :( Ken and I got back from work quite late (as has been the norm recently, though the still-secret site is very nearly ready to launch now) to f...
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Firebug 1.0 beta
The most useful developer tool for Firefox has just hit it's first version 1.0 beta and has added some great new features. Firebug gives you all kinds of javascript and CSS debugging tools that ...
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Internet at last!
This is the first time I've been able to get online outside of work since moving down to London almost a month ago. It's taken quite a while to get a phone line and then ADSL connected in our flat,...
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Settling in
IMG_2061 It's been a while since my last post. The flat did indeed go ahead and I'm into my second week working in London for a still top-secret company :) I've added a few pictures of the ...
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Got a flat sorted (just about)
It could of course still go wrong in some cruel twist of fate, but Ken and I have pretty much got a flat sorted now. I went down to London on Tuesday night to spend the rest of the week flat-huntin...
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The new coolest keyboard on the planet?
The still-unreleased Optimus keyboard got my vote way back in August last year, but Logitech have recently announced an update to their diNovo keyboard which looks excellent - the diNovo Edge: ...
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Sound in Vista at last!
After installing the Windows Vista RC1 back in mid-September, I finally have sound working. Creative's beta drivers for Vista haven't been great from what I've read, but they've finally released dr...
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Leaving for the big city
Yesterday was my last day at Net Effects. In the next couple of weeks I'll be moving down to London to take up my new position as web developer with a new startup company. Unfortunately details are...