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Letter from India IV
I can’t recall if we have told you about the daily excitement of India when it comes to their roads. Whether you are being driven down them, crossing over them, walking alongside them or indeed sitting several metres…
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Stupidest customer ever
Actually I have had many, many entries for this category over the years but I thought I'd share one of my favourites with you. It's a Sunday and I'm working bar in the restaurant in which I am then employed (about six…
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Waitering
For those of you who don't know before I was a web developer I spent a lot of time in catering; a lot of time. Why do I mention it you ask? Well I discovered a blog. By a waiter and it's reminded me of all the things…
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Riding to work
I was puttering down the A46 on my way to work this morning and Warwickshire was looking beautiful. The fields and trees were covered in white frost and the dawn was an explosion of colours. You lot next door in the…
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Letter from India III
We have found an Internet Cafe with Broadband about 200 yards from our hotel! And what's more it has A/C, which is a blessing as its 32 degrees outside. So we thought we would take the opportunity to fill in a few…
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And now for something completely different
I was prevailed upon to blog on the subject of my honorary "Zulu-hood" but that would be a huge post covering that most complex of subjects "Africa". I would seriously need to sit and ponder to be able to clarify my…
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MSN Toolbar
MS are putting in the overtime at the moment, they've just released the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta . One thing I did notice though is this message "Warning! Your browser does not meet the minimum system requirements. You…
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Letter from India II
The Day we sent the last email - We went for a day trip out to an ancient ghost town (Fatehpur Sikri) It was stunningly beautiful and a welcome respite from the touts/beggars/children who follow you all day long. On the…
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Guest writing. Part 1
My best friend in the world, Keith, who I've known now for 28 years is emigrating to Australia. As we speak Keith and his wife are travelling across India as part of their adventure "en route" to the land down under.…
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Daft abbreviations (or the DA1.a post)
One of the things that annoys me about the design community to a small extent and the computer fraternity to a larger extent is stupid abbreviations. Jargon's bad enough but when meaning's are hidden behind combinations…
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Writing for Mr Way's pleasure
The sun's setting and the country road is dark before me. To my left a glorious pink halo paints the clouds as the winter sun waves goodbye for the evening. My lights pick out the dark tarmac rolling over the hills of…
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Typical MS and Sony's a bully
First of, the blogsphere is rightly pointing out that MSN's new blog service doesn't even attempt to use valid code. Way to go MS, it's good to see that the efforts of organisations like the W3 are completely wasted on…
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One man army...
For those of you who don't know, my family was gripped by "Halo fever" over the past, what, eleven months. My brother could play for his country and even my Dad got pretty good (I, of course, was the perfect balance of…
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MSN Spaces
And here it is: Microsoft's answer to "Blogger." I wonder how long until Yahoo release "Geo-blogger" or "YaBlog"? I think it looks cheesy, what do you think?
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MSN Blog
It looks like Microsoft are getting in on the act with the blogging phenomena. You know something's big when the behemoth gets involved. As I was saying yesterday to my Dad this movement has just achieved critical mass.…
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MS Blogging: a conversation
If my Dad can cheat and use a conversation from Yahoo messenger as a blog post, then so can I... and I enjoyed this conversation. I hope you do too. Thebubaker: So what'd ya think to MS Blogging? gone_away: Not sure -…
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Suzuki Bandit 400
My mate Andy is selling his Bandit 400. This leaves me with a dilema. I have secretly coveted that bike since the day I saw it and he's selling it for a reasonable price... BUT I'm skint. I have no money. For two days I…
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Here's hoping
Ok this should be the first working entry in my new blogging system. Yay! Please feel free to page through and leave lots of comments...
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Damn .NET
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy developing with ASP.NET but the way that the server interprets the requesting user agent and feeds it content accordingly can be a huge pain in the ass. I spend all this time making my…
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Commenting
Half of the blogs out there seem to be complaining of comment spam and here I am working nights to get my own blog comment system up and running. I must be mad. So - as Microsoft would have us believe they do - I must…