Tuesday, August 15, 2006

TV Adverts (or should that be Advertzzzzzzzz...)

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While on holiday I've been watching a bit more TV than usual. As a result I've been exposed to a fair few TV adverts. Now having liv...
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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Sweet Choice

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In a letter to New Scientist (issue 24 June 2006) Richard Laming of the British Soft Drinks Association states: 'Intense sweeteners al...
Friday, July 21, 2006

ALL CAPS USER AGREEMENTS - Grr!

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I've just upgraded my copy of SpySweeper to version 5. Great improvement but... Why Why Why do software firms continue to write their ...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Sugar and spice? - Err - Not quite

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Acording to the nursary rhyme little girls are made of 'sugar and spice and all things nice' whereas little boys are made of 'sl...
Friday, July 07, 2006

The Last Supper

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Wow! In the month since I wrote a web page about Leonardo Da Vinci's painting 'The last supper' it's had almost a million vi...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006

AntiPhishing in Internet Explorer Beta 2 - Grrr!

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A little while ago I installed a copy of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 and ever since I've been getting reports from SpySweeper that my com...
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Politics - I'm a Democratic Anarchist

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I suppose that if I were to describe my political beliefs I would say I am a democratic anarchist. Now that seems to be a bit of a contrad...
Monday, June 26, 2006

Tesco Computers for Schools

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Don't get me wrong - as an IT teacher I'm grateful for any support given to schools by industry and I've been taking advantage o...
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Saturday, June 24, 2006

The writing is on the wall for...

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Back in the late 1970s I remember having a huge 8 inch floppy disk drive - much faster than the cassette tapes I was using then for storing...

Religion?

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Constantine - Founder of Christianity? Religion fascinates me; I collect church memberships. I was baptized an Anglican. I was 'saved...

The 'Good Old Days'

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I'm now old enough to remember the 'good old days' but were they really good? Here's a collection of my memories from these ...

Da Vinci Code and all that

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In 2003, author Daniel Brown's book 'The Da Vinci Code' was published and rapidly rose through the book charts to become a best ...