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Make your own bluetooth plugin for Sony mobiles

April 30th 2007

After a little experimentation, I’ve made my own remote control HID file for my Sony Erikson k800i. It was remarkably easy. I was going to upload it to here, but it turns out many many people have done it before and far better, and a little googling with the right phrase “sony itunes hid bluetooth” [...]

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Earwax dating

April 30th 2007

Did you know you could date the age of a whale using it’s buildup up earwax? No, neither did I. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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So exciting…

April 30th 2007

From an email from my firend Katie, I couldn’t help laughing at the flailing limbs… “…went to the Grand Hotel yesterday for a spot of afternoon tea – the grand hotel is ‘the only chinese palace styled hotel in the world’, hahhaha, whatever that means, but looks quite nice. and whilst there we saw Desmond [...]

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Alan Johnston

April 26th 2007

I will work this into the sidebar tonight (or tomorrow) but for the moment I’d like people to take a moment to support Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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So exciting…

April 25th 2007

From an email from my firend Katie, I couldn’t help laughing at the flailing limbs… “…went to the Grand Hotel yesterday for a spot of afternoon tea – the grand hotel is ‘the only chinese palace styled hotel in the world’, hahhaha, whatever that means, but looks quite nice. and whilst there we saw Desmond [...]

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Wouldn’t you know it

April 25th 2007

Who would have throught that Mojave 3, were actually Slowdive in disguise! Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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Half arsed attempt from microsoft

April 25th 2007

I ran across tagspace by microsoftand was meaning to investigate further, until I noticed that general was the biggest tag. General? Thats not a tag, thats a dumping folder! Pointless. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api [...]

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Modern day life meets 17th century hobby

April 23rd 2007

You have to love the title of Subversive Crosstitch Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable

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Twice in a week

April 21st 2007

making up for the fact I’m knocking my arse out in the office over a weekend and had to leave my lass to amuse herself in a city she doesn’t know, I’ve made the front page of trustedplace.com again with my review of Pierre’s Baguette’s Baocn sandwiches. Wicked. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]

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Coldclimate makes the front page!

April 20th 2007

… of trustedplaces.com Yes – in a world excusive I can reveal that yesterday my review of the Hobgoblin in Reading made the fonrt page of trustedplaces.com. Wicked. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open [...]

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Watch out…

April 18th 2007

…theres a big bunch of right wing militant christian neocons about. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = txtr? Announcing the world changing, life altering, Benny Hill Diet! Uk Twitter message forwarder

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NEED ONE NOW!

April 18th 2007

I demand a modBook. Now! Faster monkeys, fly fly, bring me back the book of joy! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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Google goes nuts?

April 12th 2007

I searched for Los Abuelos, a type of tequila, and it pointed me to… Hot Chicks With Douche Bags. I think google must have gone nuts. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring [...]

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ONe for the design monkeys

April 12th 2007

A nice introduction to grid systems for layout. Ratios make all things beutiful. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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What is Vaisakhi?

April 10th 2007

Just occationally the corporate emails come in handy, like sending me this little nugget. On Vaisakhi in 1699, during a period of particular tyranny and oppression, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the 10th Master of the Sikhs, initiated the Sikhs as the Khalsa (pure and sincere) and thus the Sikhs were born as a collective community. [...]

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You know when your operating system is bloated when…

April 9th 2007

…animated cursors are the source of your biggest security holes. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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USA V’s Iran

April 9th 2007

Ever noticed how Ahmadinejad and Bush Baby look almost identical? Check out the close set eyes, the eyebrows of doom, the hair line and the look of zealous self belief in their eyes, it’s truely scary. Don’t believe me? Check out these two photos of Ahmadinejad and Bush Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]

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Zimbabwe just got a little bit worse

April 5th 2007

Its stories like this that make me saddest of all – I can blog about anything I like, post photos of anything I see, and here we have a government who has kidnapped and murdered somebody for telling the world what was happening. There are no too ways about it, this has to stop. Possibly [...]

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Go Keith!

April 4th 2007

Keith Richards remains my total hero, even after snorting his farthers ashes (never mind calling the Artic Monkeys and Bloc Prty crap). Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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