Month: February 2007

Leyton Orient 1-4 Brighton

Leyton Orient 1-4 Brighton

Possibly the worst performance I’ve seen from Orient resulted in a home thrashing against a club that haven’t even been doing particularly well themselves in League One this season. The situation obviously wasn’t helped by injury as there were no strikers on the bench and a fairly makeshift defence (with Thelwell at right back, and …

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Del.icio.us API timeout and 503 response headers

Del.icio.us API timeout and 503 response headers

Three days after building a little bit of code to publish posts from this blog directly to del.icio.us, I still haven’t got every post on there. Despite following the “don’t hammer our server” guidelines and waiting over a second between API calls, my process is still being kicked off after about 20 posts and can’t …

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M&S uses ‘slimming mirrors’, says Kilroy-Silk

M&S uses ‘slimming mirrors’, says Kilroy-Silk

Marks and Spencer has said it is mystified by a claim by MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk that it uses “distorting” mirrors in its changing rooms. Mr Kilroy-Silk has accused the store of misleading women with mirrors that make them look slimmer in its clothes. By an amazing coincidence, I’ve noticed that every photograph of Robert Kilroy-Silk …

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Frankensteinway hits MySpace

Frankensteinway hits MySpace

Jason has put Frankensteinway on MySpace. I can’t wait for the record deals to come flooding in, just as long as they don’t get put off by the poor sound quality (and poor music quality (and poor performance quality (and poor quality generally))). Frankensteinway on MySpace Frankensteinway’s website

ASP.Net del.icio.us API integration with C#

ASP.Net del.icio.us API integration with C#

I’ve been playing around with getting my blog to automatically post to del.icio.us when a new post is added (just because I can) and it’s actually very easy to talk to the del.icio.us API. To get any communication going, just create a WebRequest, add authentication, and away you go. The bit of code below reads …

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Problems with the semantic web

Problems with the semantic web

I was pointed towards Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags by Clay Shirky and decided to read a few more posts. This one about the semantic web is interesting too. I particularly like this section on proposed uses for the semantic web: “This example sets the pattern for descriptions of the Semantic Web. First, …

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Categorising content on the web

Categorising content on the web

This article entitled Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags is interesting for any programmer who’s had a client say they want a taggable/searchable/categorisable system of some kind. They’re all the rage at the moment, apparently. The interesting ideas reall start in the mind reading section. “One of the biggest problems with categorizing things in …

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Cruciate ligament: the footballing injury to be seen with

Cruciate ligament: the footballing injury to be seen with

In recent years no Premiership footballer worth their salt would be seen dead without a metatarsal injury. The metatarsal is a small bone in the foot that was brought to the nation’s attention as a result of David Beckham’s injury in the world cup of 2002. Beckham’s endorsement of the injury is said to have …

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Leyton Orient transfers

Leyton Orient transfers

It’s good news that Luke Guttridge is staying at Orient for the rest of the season – he looked pretty useful in the few games I saw. But it’s really not good news that we didn’t get a striker given that Martin Ling decided to sell Paul Connor to fellow relegation strugglers Cheltenham. I just …

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