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July 2008
- Harebrained scheme
- Why the economy keeps crashing
- 80 million tiny images
- The Russian Hedgehog
- The Mundaneum - the forgotten precursor to the internet
- Stay off the bleeding edge
June 2008
- Synchronized swimming - in the office
- Back home now
- Valencia - Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
- The trucker's strike in Spain is biting
- A fine example of democracy
- I don't think I could do that...
May 2008
- UN says the Balkans are safer than W. Europe
- Traveling for a bit
- Pond restrained
- Bad cat day
- Is our food supply collapsing?
- Troublesome technology
- EU to allow chicken-feed to contain pig remains
April 2008
- Online Mind Mapping Tool
- Unsubscribe me - waterboarding
- Microsoft DRM woes
- Spring is finally here
- Selexyz Dominicanen
- 'Apothekenpreise' - soon history?
- Reformatting Windows (NTFS) disks for Mac OS X
March 2008
- How English might evolve
- Schmitten 7:20 this morning
- View out of our windows
- Rostock
- Viral marketing?
- We've tidied up the site
- Coming soon? Coke in aluminium "bottles"?
- New toy
- It was windy this weekend
- Unusual cars
February 2008
- Pentagon: Britain will have "Siberian" climate in 12 years time
- Palm OS on an iPhone
- 1984 has been delayed, not cancelled
- How to treat uppity ex-colonies
- Selective democracy
- British language exams may drop oral tests
- Robert M. Gates marches in the wrong direction
- Talar du IKEA?
January 2008
- Good software to catalog books, CDs and DVDs
- Free music on Last.fm
- Good bitmap to vector graphic converter
- It's the price that makes it taste good
- Interesting competitor to Sonos
- "Switch" for the Nokia E- and N-Series phones
- Music industry woes to deepen
- Better not publish your bank account details
- Dodgy maths (Update: Not)
- Downsides of too much capitalism?
December 2007
- How (not) to treat your customers
- New mobiles
- The Bush Countdown Calendar
- Cold here
- The fog clears in Europe
- The tree circus
- Combine your hobby with work
- Word of the year 2007: w00t!
- The latest global house price trends
- Reconstructing extinct viruses
November 2007
- What are they thinking of?
- Blair afraid to be branded a "nutter"
- Waiting for the Guards
- Fun shopping
- A "super cold" bug emerges in the USA
- USA / Iran from two viewpoints
- Becoming useful
- Addictive game
- Heating up Europe
October 2007
- 10 ways to keep healthy
- How to store nuclear waste safely over thousands of years
- Elephants
- Christmas is coming
- Motorized skateboard trick
- My first computer
- USA / Russia - getting indistinguishable?
- Centro - the better Treo?
- How we lost a chance to eradicate malaria
- Delicious recipe - Spicy Garlic Shrimp with Coconut Rice
- Watch the price of oil
September 2007
- Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
- CD Baby does MP3 downloads without DRM
- Circuit boards causing problems in Boston again
- Silly signs
- Should be enough...
- The fastest sailing boat in the world
- Useful freeware for the Mac
- Who is trying to pull the wool over our eyes?
- iPod nano review
- Spiderman to the rescue
- Isn't 6,618,000,000 people enough?
- Shades of Dr. Strangelove
- Documenta 12
August 2007
- Fixing a shutdown problem on the Mac
- Retargeting images
- El Bulli is selling its products - in tins
- A paper chase closes IKEA
- How high are the fees when you buy property?
- "Censored" by Google maps
- Overweight? Perhaps you are suffering from an infection?
- High speed egg peeling
- The perils of glass-topped desks
- AACS DRM - what it means to your operating system
- NeoOffice patch provides hi-res printing
- Mac mini refreshed
- Ruin Sorbees
- Fred Karno's Army
- Last weekend's project
- Useful device
July 2007
- Ballpoint drawings
- Mac mini - update coming?
- Record companies gone crazy
- Self-destructing e-mail
- Back online now
- Posting will be slow ...
- Is the CIA counterfeiting US dollars?
- 32% of Europeans see USA as biggest rogue nation
June 2007
- Richard's web site
- Busy, busy
- Is your CrackBerry being tapped?
- Apple TV vs. Roku SoundBridge
- Abject-Oriented Programming
- Banksy's been at it again
- On order
- Our magic pond
- Paying lip-service to curbing pollution?
- Another attempt to prevent spam
- Interesting difference between USA and the rest of the world
- British house prices
- Game theory applied to toilet seat positions
- Too little time
May 2007
- VERY detailed Google maps
- Club of Rome updated
- Interesting question
- Mars as Art
- Proposed missile system can only shoot down modern rockets
- Super super-glue
- Do we need better copyright?
- Manga Shakespeare
- One in 10 websites malicious
- A small town in Germany
- Blair's next project
- Precision parking
- Cornwall
April 2007
- The USA under a fascist government
- Inside the London Monument
- A to Z without the lines
- List of artists signed up with EMI
- "My job is to make decisions"
- Fraud fears regarding scanned signatures on documents
- Different standards
- Spring
- Industrial Testing using Lego
- The Great Grand Canyon Skywalk Rip-off
- Ruth's quilting
- Painted trucks
- 30 days using Windows Vista
- Large pothole
- EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks
- Vista to be periodically re-checked for validity
- New Google service
March 2007
- Go skydiving indoors
- Aussie and NZ 747s will glide to save fuel
- How much do they leave in your pocket?
- Not very helpful Brother support
- Take control of Word
- Reliable intelligence
- Strange point of view
- WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous
- Picnik - a handy web-based photo editor
- aLPHaBeT 26
February 2007
- Invest in "Errant in Iberia"
- Frog parking
- Push the Beeb to provide on-demand TV for non-Windows clients
- How to repair your Canon Ixus
- The American Empire
- Removing DRM from iTunes songs on the Mac
- Op Art
- Spinning again
- SyncTogether
- Nice not to worry about what's not your's
- Printing from Apple Mail
- Exxon - big profits being misused
January 2007
- Ten ways to stop your web business becoming successful
- Novel uses for your microwave
- 3D Pavement Art
- Bandidas
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has 11% of market share
- Portrait photo site
- Keep up your second language
- How secure is your password?
- Marmalade isn't sweet enough
- One step nearer to 1984
- A proposal for the way foreward in Iraq
- CopyGear for Mac OS X
December 2006
- ... now with 10% more crap
- Why illegal downloads outpace legal ones 5:1
- Windows Vista DRM
- Out of here for a few days
- Playing with Ubuntu
- Ford is using Mac minis on the assembly line
- How to translate "fuck" into Catalan
- Six million pixels are enough
- When smoke ran like water
- Do not try this at home
- Britain warned of chaos if Iraq invaded
- Looking forwards looking back
- Wordie
- " Mars fined for breaching rules on carbon trading"
- Urban Challenge
- Advent 2006
November 2006
- Bees have been trained to sniff out explosives
- Volver
- Well packed
- Lying again
- MP3 player pays for itself; illegal U-turns don't pay
- Time to turn off the video game
- A new slant on the news
- wot iz d wrld comin 2?
- Presidential speech word usage
- Sushi Day
- Is democracy working?
October 2006
- FairGame
- Free album
- Navi on - check; brain off - check....
- Copying files, but only those not already copied
- The iPod is five today
- Autumn
- LaCie external drive and USB ports
- Scan, scan, scan
- Hardware upgrade
- One approach protecting us all...
September 2006
- Hi-res digital camera
- Bed bugs
- The library at Salamanca University
- The Postcard-Seller
- Just drop it
- Saturday morning in Salamanca
- Global warming is speeding up
- Studying
- The dog-head hole
- Nostalgic car
- Nice outlook
- Recipe web site
- Smoke
- Banksy does it again
- Picture of a housing bubble
August 2006
- Pay by weight for your rubbish collection
- Germany sells Israel 2 submarines at 33% off
- First switch on brain, then talk to the press
- Early "bonfire night"
- Less than half of America believes in evolution
- Meet Ballbot
- Wound up
- So who is fascist?
- East meets East
- Why the USA supports Israel unconditionally
- Spiegel: "The madman in the White House"
July 2006
- NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua beta is available
- Friday versus Monday
- Where do people use "km/liter" for fuel consumption?
- Discover music you like
- UN thinks war crimes are taking place in Mid-East
- Useful info on cross-platform file-naming
- Record industry gets egg on it's face
- How large companies function
- Google is now a verb
- We've got a data-leak... pass the superglue!
- How fast will the USA recall troops from Iraq?
- Why German property hasn't risen in value
- Over just may these new also people...
June 2006
- Guerrilla book marketing
- Storks at Alfaro
- Out of here...
- NeoOffice 2.0 Intel Version now available
- Do I smell...?
- No Auto-off for Palm Treo
- Big business out of control
May 2006
- "Mapping" on the web
- Grab your OS X utilities for your Dell Laptop while you can
- Compare typefaces with each other
- Handy free spelling-checker
- One more defense against spam-comments
- Server upgrade
- Some things take longer than you might reasonably expect
- Roku confusion
- Funny ads
- Time for the dollar to fall?
- Not completely squirrel-proof
- Lost in translation...
- Do you favour Microsoft or Open Source software?
- Identity theft 101
- Acid-stained concrete floors
- Lots of blog-spam
April 2006
- Visioo-writer
- Movement to impeach Bush
- How to identify phishing and pharming
- Too busy
- The ultimate WAF (2)
- Misoverestimated?
- Poor practice
- The ultimate WAF
- Bush planning preemptive strike to "save" Iran
- Dentists have been around longer than you thought
- Brighton i360
- Ruth has her own blog
- Cyclic fuel prices
March 2006
- Protect the German language
- 50 foods to eat before you die
- Are you sure you know what you mean?
- We're running out of space
- Web Developer Extension
- How to take it apart
- RFID tags can spread viruses
- Tarnished
- International Baccalaureate is "marxist"
- Swaps for free
- Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib just the tip of the iceberg
- No comment
February 2006
- Still snowy here
- Dyeing day
- How do you keep out undesirables?
- Software testing is cheaper than fixing the problems later
- US Senator paranoid
- Your grandchildren may need a 75-year mortgage...
- Is bird-flu being spread by intensive poultry farming?
- Download music without copy protection
- Enough snow
- London Underground Map
- Freedom of the press or a racial insult?
- Useful website (for Windows users)
- Magic
- A homemade t-shirt folding machine
January 2006
- Time to make a back-up
- Wireless music (2) and some useful links
- Wireless music
- Garantie darf nicht 30 Jahre übersteigen
- And how was your 2005?
- The Loom of Language
- You just need the right idea
- Ruth's structured quilt finished
- Is your PC too noisy?
- Updated to WordPress 2.0
- Airport controls in Canada
- The state of democracy
- US gives up on rebuilding Iraq
- Unusual properties
December 2005
- Concept Car from MIT styled by Frank Gehry
- View from our kitchen this afternoon
- A large order of Silly Putty
- Britain's farmers stand by to man the snow ploughs
- Hotel Fox
- Fish feed on chicken dung
- Lots of snow here today
- Teaspoons exhibiting resistentialism?
- X-mas does NOT exist
- Most popular names
- iTunes - International gifting not possible
- Intelligent Judge
- Upgrade your iPod mini to 8 GB
- One against 150
- ExxonMobil spearheads activities to sabotage Kyoto protocol
- Internet Christmas shopping will hit "brick and mortar" stores
- Squirrels attack and kill dog
November 2005
- Cheney "may be war criminal"
- Still snowing...
- Iraq "as bad as under Saddam"
- Why the Mediterranean diet is good for the heart?
- GM peas cause allergies in mice - project stopped
- Japanese calendar year converter
- Glacier caught speeding - 100 times too fast
- What are chips (french fries) made of?
- Misleading advertising from HP
- Forget BMI as a risk factor
- 2005-11-03: World Usability Day
October 2005
- Back from Salamanca
- Off to fill our brains with Spanish
- Ruth's quilting
- Cool colour picker
- Xara Xtreme to be open-sourced
- Why flat-rate tax is a bad idea
- Great photos
- On owning a Mac
September 2005
- First GPS 2R-M satellite takes off
- How many bullets to kill an insurgent?
- The top eight languages
- What does it take to destroy an iPod Nano?
- Social Darwinism
- Honey - I've shrunk the CDs
- Nice weather in Frankfurt
- Life expectancy
- Using Google to post info about New Orleans
- The management of the crisis in New Orleans
- Can New Orleans be rebuilt?
August 2005
- The Eden Project
- BBC to offer download service for missed TV programs
- In Case of Emergency
- Windows computer worm - two detained
- Shantaram
- Roche donates 3 mio. flu doses to WHO
- If you don't own it, you don't take care of it
- V-e-r-y slow experiment
- US planning to stay in Iraq for up to four years
- Happy Birthday Penguin
- British chicken full of superbugs
- British exam system critisised - again
- Booker longlist has been published
- Bird flu can be contained
- The Importance of Punctuation
July 2005
- Accuracy
- e-money
- A couple of useful iTunes tricks
- Define your own Google Logo
- Chainsaw bike
- Bye bye CDD 461
- Don't throw stones
- Rolling over credit card debt
- Beethoven downloads make BBC unpopular with CD / music industry
- LG Electronics signs Palm OS license
- Best of British Banking
- Japanese recites 83 431 places of Pi from memory
June 2005
- England is wet, isn't it?
- Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally
- Why birds sing
- NeoOffice/J 1.1 (final release) now available
- Words with unknown origins
- US cattle are eating just about anything
- Get a print while you can
- What struck me down
- FDA approves new anti-superbug drug
- Impressions of Salamanca
- Internet access
May 2005
- Arrived - wrong town
- Nice price
- Off to learn some Spanish!
- Spanish Road
- Brad Pitt gives Frank Gehry a hand in Hove
- Orchid
- Problems with Siemens Gigaset WLAN camera
- British Banks to move out of Stone Age
- Dodge the dot
- Britsh Museum displays prehistoric supermarket trolley
- Brave new world?
- Photorescue - worth every penny
- Eco-militants the biggest threat, says FBI
- How do you get rid of your rubbish?
- Sudoku
- Iraq: Home from home?
- A history of computer user interfaces
- Back from Brighton
- Sketchbook
- Brazil turns down US Aids aid.
- Hole in one
- MS Explorer / WordPress / Blockquote
- Mismanaged DRM (digital rights management)
- Noisy Tiger
April 2005
- All Google services on one page
- Marking of GCSE's to be partially outsourced to India
- Think
- The rise of...
- SPD says: don't buy German
- Talks after cricket
- Unverhältnismäßig
- Medieval "graffiti"
- Glass house
- The Royal Wedding
- The EU anthem
- Computer marks US university course work
- How's your knowledge about sex?
- India responsible for Global warming?
March 2005
- What's that word I'm looking for?
- Unhappy customer (2)
- Design your own kaleidoscope
- High time
- Magic pond
- The infinite cat project
- All you wanted to know about Aus-tra-lia...
- The weather is unchanged...
- Bird flu risk in UK underestimated
- The saga of our pond continues
- GoogleFight
- You have two cows
- Supervolcano: What if Yellowstone erupts?
- Spam karma - bad spam karma
- A good place to eat
- When and how to charge batteries
- How was Sgrena being driven?
- Icicles in all sizes
- The First Amendment
- How to win friends and influence people
- The Modern Word
- New spam filter on this blog
February 2005
- Still snowing...
- Cook's Thesaurus
- Using a pier to pier network...
- Schmitten moves into the 20th Century
- Upgrading
- Worcester sauce causes major health scare in UK
- Electronic passports - a security problem
- EU wants to make mortgage market more efficient - Schroeder doesn't
- If architects had to work like software developers
- We've got snow
- Recipe diagramming
- Commented links now on del.icio.us
- Nothing new under the sun, but better in every respect
- us.ef.ul
- The human clock
- Duck dialects
- Virus affects 150000 cars in one week
- typoGenerator
- del.icio.us
- West Antarctic ice melting at rate of 250 cubic km / year
- Roll those tweels
January 2005
- Al Jazeera as number 5 global brand
- Par for the course
- Consequences of an invasion in Iran
- Brrr...
- On this day
- Anti-phishing website
- The law of unintended consequences
- Pencil carving
- Mad Cow Prions can be present in beef
- Cat- or butter-side up?
- How to learn a language in a year
- Stating the obvious
- Test automation - an agile approach
- Reformstau
- Tsunami relief league table
- Short items
- Cornflake sold on e-bay
- Happy New Year
December 2004
- Cleaning up a Windows 98 PC
- Walk in the woods
- Handy HTML Character Entity Reference Table
- Pinhole photographs
- Choose how links here open
- NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta available
- OpenOffice.org version 2 preview available
- American plans for Fallujah
- Christmas dinner?
- Tiny P2P - the world's smallest P2P application
- Advice for office Christmas parties
- Christmas card virus under way
- Now you see it, now you don't
- World house prices
- The Weihnachts-Poet
- Apple locks in higher prices in Europe?
- Auschwitz - what was that?
- WordPress bug
- Quzzle
- Unhappy customer
- Advent calendar
- Science takes the back seat again under Bush
November 2004
- A long time searching
- Tough exam
- WHO issues warning on flu
- Thank you, Mr. Putin
- Learning a language
- Prolonged PC use may make you go blind...
- So they win Fallujah - then what?
- Help the other 49% - marry an American
- Phishers getting better all the time
- Spam defences up'd a notch
October 2004
- Stressed-out cats
- Laser printer fingerprints
- Getting away from the UK
- 350 tons of explosives go missing in Iraq
- Healthy olive oil
- Florida Voting Machine?
- Smoking on the Titanic
- Windows, colour touch screen, CD-drive, USB, integrated internet access...
- 63% of Scottish grads can't afford to buy a home
- George Soros on Bush
September 2004
- Mount St. Helens
- IMF says UK house prices too high
- Modelling impossible Escher pictures in 3D
- Ireland cuts phone lines to stop scams
- Walking helps prevent dementia
- Flying a kite
- Tough liberalism
- Not dishwasher-proof
- How good is your spelling?
- Single processor Apple G5 sleeps again
- It's not alright
- It's all right
- Stopping the OS X startup chime
- Traffic jams - on the tube
- NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha 1 available
- A story of a florist, death and 292 credit card numbers
- Pond finished, fish happy again
- Voynich MS a hoax?
- Are Australian house prices up or down?
- Britsh primary schools to open 10 hrs daily
August 2004
- On how to write "internet"
- Visit from Brighton
- Iraq a "catastrophic success"
- Those Joneses...
- Pond Update
- The tricks of supermarkets
- Finally - our pond gets fixed!
- Rolling sheep
- More on A-Level marking
- An advanced examination, that everyone passes
- Cultural influence on technology
- UK House price development
- The effect of an eruption at Cumbre Vieja
- European spelling reform
- US elections to be monitored by OSCE
- Ham at 125 Euro / Kilo
- The wood library
- Computer units of size
- Living in Bangalore
- Memory cards virtually indestructible
July 2004
- Lacking a sense of humour
- Top ten brands
- Weekend in NRW
- UK is worth 211 Bill Gates
- A Frank Gehry website
- Which is more deterrent?
- Would you like some meat with your water?
- Police apprehend roaming McDonalds paper cup
- Myopia (short-sightedness) caused by too much reading
- Holiday pictures finally posted
- Hotel recommendations
- English spelling
- Crowded roads
- Aussie reactor safety net
June 2004
- The better Office software
- The Lost Art of Eating
- Unwiring the last mile
- Tour the Gulags
- Russians change weather for concert
- Whoops...
- Surfing the internet
- Why DRM is bad - for everyone
- One third of Americans were without health insurance in last 2 years
- The European election results
- UK House prices rose 4.5% in April
May 2004
- Taking a few days off...
- EU agrees to provide APIS data to USA
- Looters drive off with office buildings
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Visit the Museum of Coat Hangers
- Is being overweight unhealthy?
- Global warming - more advanced than we knew
- How embarassing
- Some Israelis are reminded of WW2
- An end to vandalism
- Pull the other one, Uncle Sam
- RSS feeds available from Time
- Harry Potter's invisible cloak becomes reality - almost
- Oil prices could remain permanently high
- Black death spread by humans?
- Good collection of links on moving from MT to WP
- Size isn't everything
- Palm Pilot / Mac OS X 10.3.3 error message
- Nice birthday present
- DiBa internet banking works with Safari now
- The Toyota way
- Only following orders...
- EU and USA need to loosen up on trade
- Versatile phones
- A guy with 9 lives
- Comments working now...
- Hybrid cars pose rescuers problems
- Migrated to WordPress
- Given up?
- Torture in Iraq
- Saturn
- Work out at your local supermarket