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Entries from August 2008

Twitter ends SMS updates – not the smartest move?

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.
I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a [...]

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Tags: internet · other sites

Terminal 5 fights back

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

British Airways and Terminal 5 are fighting back after their initial problems.

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Digital Nomads from Dell

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Interesting new site from Dell – especially for Digital Nomads

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Live Search goes to Beijing

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:

Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for [...]

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Tags: internet · microsoft · other sites

Ungracious sod!

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Tom Daley : The hype has been huge, but it’s not right when your partner disses you!

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I learnt to do IT on one of these…

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

You can still buy the old IBM buckling spring keyboards – WANT ONE!

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FabricLive 41 – Mixed by Simian Mobile Disco

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I used to make and listen to a lot of DJ mixes, but since I hung up my traveling headphones and retired to the obscurity of mixing at home, I also stopped listening to many other DJ’s work. I still keep my eye out for anything that looks interesting and have heard some great stuff [...]

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Tags: music

Barack is definitely on a roll…

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments

If this doesn’t make him the next president – I don’t know what will… (via)

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Tags: video

I scored 42 – how many can you get?

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

How many of the 100 most common English words can you guess? (from)

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Paris Hilton is now my new hero(ine)

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

See more funny videos at Funny or Die
“My name is Paris Hilton, and I approve this message because it’s like, totally, hot.”

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Tags: random · video