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Follow-up to EHIC
After posting about how easy to use the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) application form was, I'm pleased to report that the good experience didn't end there. I received my card a couple o...
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Waiting for TomTom
I've been sitting here for a good few hours now as I (not so) patiently wait for TomTom to transfer maps of just about all of Europe onto my XDA II mini. I can't quite decide whether it's the softw...
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You've already been there
After I wrote back in February about a nice touch on the happygiraffe.net site, today I noticed another site with a similarly handy differentiation between links you've already visited and those yo...
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CSS Love Child - It's Hideous and I like it
Via the news bit of CSS Beauty, I found my way to a great new toy - CSS Love Child. The idea is that you apply the style sheet of one website to the HTML of another and see what bastard child resul...
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Mad cackling babies x4
My brother showed me one of the most infectiously funny yet disturbing videos I've seen today. All I'll say is quadruplets laughing hysterically, staring at the camera. This needs the sound turn...
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A simple-to-use government website? Never!
Still getting everything organised for my road trip, it was pointed out by my mother that I needed a European Health Insurance Card - the replacement of the E111 form. Expecting all kinds of beaura...
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A third blog
Blogs for every occasion over here. I've just set up a blog to track my road trip around Europe with Ken. The blog is imaginatively titled Adam and Ken's Euro Road Trip and although unsurprising...
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Stating the obvious
This morning I had a look back at the BBC's accessibility website and there was this link under 'Accessibility News': "Disabled people favour accessible websites". Talk about stating the blindin...
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Apple Boot Camp
Now that they're using Intel processors and after a group of hackers managed to get Windows running on an Intel Mac, Apple have announced Boot Camp. Boot Camp is basically a bit of dual-booting sof...
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CSSViewer
Linked from CSS Beauty I found, as described by one user, "the most useful extension since web developer toolbar". I'd potentially add Aardvark in there too, though the CSSViewer expands on Aardvar...