Month: October 2006

Curry is good for you

Curry is good for you

It’s official – eating curry might help arthritis. (I may be paraphrasing, but probably no worse than the BBC reporters are.) Apparently it’s the turmeric that really does it. Dr Janet Funk and her colleagues believe their findings also suggest turmeric extract could treat other inflammatory disorders, including asthma, multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease. …

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Coincidences

Coincidences

Have you noticed how sometimes lot of the same type of thing? Peter Kay said “Some days you see lots of people on crutches.”, which I’ve noticed too. Well, recently: I’ve met lots of people called either Jeff, Jason or Steve. There are no other new names around. I’ve seen a lot of women with …

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Friends of the Orient – east London business networking

Friends of the Orient – east London business networking

My web development company Exponetic have just designed and built the new website for Friends of the Orient, a business networking club in east London. The site lists the businesses that are part of the club, which is based around Leyton Orient football club, as well as news and information about upcoming events. The next …

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Why VB.Net is bad

Why VB.Net is bad

If a language is going to be loosely typed, then that’s fine as long as you know how to use it. If it’s going to be strongly typed that’s even better. So in JavaScript: var i=1; var j=”1″; if(i==j)alert(“Loose typing ahoy!”); Everything’s fine and you get an alert. And if you go: var thingArray = …

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Kinetica, Kinetic Arts Museum, Spitalfields

Kinetica, Kinetic Arts Museum, Spitalfields

I had an invite to the opening of Kinetica, a new Kinetic arts museum in Spitalfields the other night. By it’s own description, “Kinetica is the UK’s first museum of kinetic art”, and who am I to doubt it? It’s quite an interesting place, in a very good setting in old Spitalfields too. The tactile …

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Leyton Orient 0-0 Chesterfield

Leyton Orient 0-0 Chesterfield

A goalless draw against Chesterfield isn’t too bad a result for Orient, considering the recent form of letting in three goals a game. A clean sheet is a good starting point as the defence seem to have been very weak this season, but yesterday did seem them winning a few headers and getting to a …

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