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Facebook would like you to share even more….
There’s an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project. She does this by applying electric shocks to the ‘subjects’ when they attempt to feed. the hamster soon stops trying to eat the nuts that are attached to
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You may have missed this…the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did – but then again for the last week or two I’ve been running around like the proverbial ‘blue arsed fly’ trying to juggle a variety of personal, professional and voluntary responsibilities whilst avoiding cat-induced sleep deprivation. Anyway…where were you when China appeared to ‘turn off’ access to
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The Birth of a Brand
As some of you may know, I’m on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in that area, such as ‘Yorkshire in Bloom’ and other community activities, such as Community Gardening. I’m very proud of my involvement
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Civil Partership ceremonies on religious premises….some contradiction in terms?
Over the last decade or so, the number of times when New Labour has created legislation in what ‘the Simpsons’ would call ‘the American way’ – i.e. do a ‘half arsed job’ – has been legion. There must be some sort of finishing school for NuLab legislators where they go to have that bit of
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Chrome – the prissy Maiden Aunt of browsers….
I’m currently involved in developing a web application of moderate complexity using Ext to provide a ‘Web 2.0’ front end on a PHP/mySQL application. We’ve endeavoured to make it work across a range of browsers – Firefox, IE, opera and Chrome. And this is the blog article in which I vent my spleen about Chrome.
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I sometimes wonder….
As some of you will know, I’m what’s best described as an (occasionally) practising Christian. Just to get the joke out of the way early, I’ll keep practising and one day I hope to get it right! Yesterday I attended a Christening in a different Church to my usual one, and the sermon offered was
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All your personal info belongs to…some web site or other?
This is an interesting little article about a new product from Mozilla Labs for Firefox – it allows you to grab tour personal contact data from various web services and sources, and then keep it in a repository from where you can decide exactly what to make available to OTHER web services and sites. The data
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New Media, Old Manners
This post is based on some comments I made on another blog recently – dealing with the question of whether using Social media turns us in to rude bumpkins. Whilst it’s true that the decision to participate or not in all this Tweeting and Facebooking is in our own hands, the amount of general rudeness
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Facebook and the panic button….
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a ‘Panic Button’ style link on the site – a move supported by the CEOP organisation. Facebook have commented that