Category Archives: General

Who the Duck?

If you’ve ever wanted to be a comic strip writer, now is your chance. Go and download one of the sample templates over at the “What the Duck” comic. Info for Guest Writers. If you’re not familiar with the comic … Continue reading

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My God! The end of an era!

Seems strange, but there’s this little video blog I’ve been watching, faithfully for quite a while now (3 months+?). Its strange, as I’m not a big one on video blogs – I don’t mind the odd podcast, but usually just … Continue reading

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Nerd Score?

My god I knew I was bad but…. NerdTests.com Fun Tests – Nerd Quiz [tags]nerd, quiz[tags] powered by performancing firefox

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Best sentence on the BBC web site ever…

BBC reporting at its finest. Usually its their arithmetic that ‘Doesn’t Add Up‘, but now there spelling goes to pot. BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Cannabis grandmother found guilty Judge Barbara Forssters adhjourn hearinf for presentence report – … Continue reading

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Handbags at dawn – Microsoft comes out fighting…

OK, so Microsoft have actually released a set of ‘laptop bags’. But I think they look like handbags. Not that this is a bad thing, they might be less likely to be nicked if they look less like laptop bags. … Continue reading

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Photo Meta-editing for Windows

Microsoft have released a new tool, Microsoft Photo Info which looks very interesting! I’ll give it a go and report back. [via]  [tags]microsoft,photos,program, application,IPTC[/tags]

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Winter Festival 2006 – Glow Trail

After last years rather interesting ‘Fire’ themed winter festival in Newcastle/Gateshead, this year the theme was ‘Glow’. Well on Saturday night we finally managed to get out and wander around following the ‘Glow Trail’. I have to say I love … Continue reading

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Robin Returns

One of the blogs I regularily read [1] just pointed me to this article on the BBC web site. Looks like Robin Hood gets another series, hurrah! The first one has been good fun so far – very silly on … Continue reading

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C# Developer to work on McLaren F1 Team

Saw this on jobs.joelonsoftware.com – so tempting :) Software Engineer at McLaren Racing Ltd Surrey, England McLaren Racing is looking for a talented developer to join a small software team to help develop data analysis tools for the Formula One team. … Continue reading

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Don’t ping my cheese with your bandwidth…

Classic, what more can I say. [tags]dilbert, comic, funny[/tags]

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