It still remains to be seen how useful and popular Windows Live Skydrive will become, but if you happen to have an MSN account you automatically get 25Gb of free storage at your disposal, which in my case is enough to backup all of my important personal data - documents, photos, etc (the photos of [...]
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Connect Skydrive as a Windows mapped drive
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Google Wave invite, anyone?
I just joined Google Wave this week and I have 8 invites if anyone wants one ... leave me a comment or get in touch via Twitter (@ben_stokes) with your email address and I'll send one over. Personally I am not that amazed with it, not sure if it will catch on ... I think [...]
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Test post
Just a quick test so see if posting and collection via RSS is working since I have migrated to a new webhost. A cat selected at random
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A quick mention for 2 useful tools
Here's just a quick mention for a couple of decent tools. Syntax Highlighter plus (plugin for wordpress). Link IMO this is the best code highlighting plugin for WordPress. Here's a quick example: [lang='bash']ls -la apt-get update apt-get upgrade[/lang] Does exactly what is says on the tin and has the 'view source' button to you to copy and paste [...]
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Improving battery life on the Sony Ericsson K800
3G is a great selling feature for modern mobiles, but are many people really using these 3G features yet? I certainly don't - I moved to Virgin Mobile when I got my K800 and unfortunately mobile web browsing is now too costly at £4 per Mb (with no option to add GPRS bundles), and I [...]
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Blacklists and Whitelists?
Everyone knows what blacklists and whitelists are, but we don't call them that where I work, because it's not policically correct and is upsetting for some users. Well, actually it only upsets one user, but apparently this is enough for us to change our ways and refer to them as the 'banned address list' and [...]
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Woodchip – the most hateful substance known to man?
OK, slightly off topic for me but I've just spent the weekend scraping walls and need to get this off my chest. Hopefully this post will save some poor souls a few hours of needless scraping and help ridthe world of woodchip. Here's a DIY tip for anyone about to strip a room of woodchip [...]
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Linux.com through IE7?
Is it just me that has this problem? I am unable to view www.linux.com through Internet Explorer 7! "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.linux.com/. Operation aborted" Also, if I visit a link directly within linux.com, my browser crashes! Is this some kind of evil censorship from Redmond? :) Technorati Tags: Linux.com, IE7, Microsoft
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Books!
These are most of the books I've read over the last few months (I couldn't find pictures for all of them). As you can see I have a lot of opportunity for reading these days due to my daily train journeys! Now it's time to stop reading fiction and start reading 70-291 revision materials. I've [...]
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Quote of the day.
'Integrity' is doing the right thing even when no one else is looking. Quoted from the writings of the 'Goompahs', in "Omega" by Jack McDevit.
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