This project posting on Freelancers.net is so well written I was almost tempted to put our company forward for it: gifta layout – Freelancers.net

It’s taken over a year but my blog has now reached its 200th post. As a special celebration, I’m making the 200th posting all about the great event itself. This includes a special photo of me writing the 200th post itself: To commemorate this achievement I may also be going to the pub later.

I’ve been having a fight with McAfee. Or rather, I’ve been having a fight and they’ve been waging a war of attrition. Starting with an automatic renewal that I didn’t want containing two e-mail addresses to contact customer services on, both of which bring back an autoresponder telling me to go to the website for …

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The long-awaited Frankensteinway video is now online. It was shot in High Wycombe during 2004 by students there and features myself, Mark and Jason generally acting like idiots and pretending to play our song “Laugh as you cry”. There are two versions available for view, both as free downloads in mpeg format: Small video (7mb) …

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So Nestle has eventually gotten in on the Fairtrade act. The following quote doesn’t seem particularly insightful, though: But the World Development Movement, a campaigning group which tackles the causes of poverty, said: “The launch of a Nestle Fairtrade coffee is more likely to be an attempt to cash in a growing market… than represent …

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Like the way that if you don’t want to restart you can clear the checkbox, except you can’t? Isn’t that nice.

The Ig Nobel prize is out and has produced amazing research on the pressure inside a penguin, artificial testicles for dogs, and whether people swim faster in water or syrup. Guardian Unlimited | Science | Penguins under pressure win Ig Nobel for physicists

I went to Walthamstow Dog Track on Thursday evening. There are rumours it may be turned into a housing estate (as if there aren’t enough of them) so we’ve got to make some effort at keeping it going. The 6-pack deal gives you a scampi (or chicken) and chips, two £1 bets, and 2 drinks …

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It has been pointed out to me that September 19th is “International Talk Like A Pirate day” The Talk Like A Pirate website

These are the ads that Sun didn’t run with. I think my favourite is “Benchmarks prove that Dell sucks”. Sun’s server ads