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Insomnia + UNIX tools = txtr?

January 26th 2009

Ever typed a text message and had t9 screw you over?  Well, I once tried to say “Late, fucking queues in tescos” and it came out with “Late, fucking steve in tescos”.  Anyway last night I couldn’t sleep so I decided to write something that would take a text message and give you all of [...]

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Money – the root of all evil?

January 25th 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Well, it would appear that the UK is perma-fucked when it comes to all things economic at the moment. Those heady days of rising house prices making you more money that your job earned you are over, and cheap trips to the USA to do a bit of shopping [...]

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Fat is where the flavour isHealthycook

January 22nd 2009

Healthy cooking has it’s place, and given the state of the nations waist line, that place might be more and more pressing, but I am sick to death of the War on Fat.  Too many times I have been served meat which is dry, tough and flavourless, primarily because it has been grillind to within [...]

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Server move

January 17th 2009

So, hopefully, if you are reading this, I’ve successfully moves servers.  A few things might be broken maybe, I’ll work out what if you leave me a comment (assuming that works) Possibly Related Posts: 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog Funny how the internet digs up old memories

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Multiple photo fails

January 5th 2009

Amazing what you see when you have your cameraphone with you. Possibly Related Posts: A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week of great tools Discount shiny things BBC iPlayer on Linux!

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