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My dongles getting smaller…

I have a love-hate relationship with the Bluetooth Dongle. The Bluetooth Dongle is a small device that you plug into a USB port on a PC and it allows you to do short-range wireless transfer of files to other Bluetooth … Continue reading

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An eeeBox

After the bad news of having to leave the office, at least I got a new toy to play with. It’s called an eeeBox and it’s a mini computer. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor,  1Gb of RAM, Wireless … Continue reading

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Bye-Bye Office

Sad day as I had to leave the office I have spent half my life in for the last 18 months… We rented this office in June 2007 and have ran our business out of it since then, but for … Continue reading

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70’s Party

I was at a friends 30th birthday party on Saturday and the theme was the 1970’s. A couple of light refreshments were had, some pictures were taken…

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Winter Time

Yesterday was cold, but there was no snow. Woke up on Saturday morning and…     22nd of November and the snow has come. Could be gone tomorrow, or could still be here in April. Hope it’s gone tomorrow…

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Net Neutrality Saved (for now)

Net neutrality is the basic premise that on the Internet, all packages of data are equal no matter where they come from. It lets me or you compete with the big corporations and start the next Google if we wanted. … Continue reading

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Scotland – Argentena

It’s Scotland versus Argentina tonight and the world’s focus is on the game as it is the first time that Diego Maradona will manage the Argentinean side. A lot of the pre-match hullabaloo is centered on the Scotland assistant manager … Continue reading

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The sincerest form of flattery…

The small company that I run at the moment was started when I was at university. For one of the terms we had the chance to spend 100% of our time exploring the business ideas and trying to come up … Continue reading

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Spam (part 2)

As a follow up on the fact that spammers get 1 customer for every 12 million emails they send out, what can we do to stop them? The easy answer would be to stop buying from them and they will … Continue reading

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Spam (part 1)

How many spam messages have you ever received? I reckon I must get about 20 a day to my main account, even with the spam filters at Yahoo taking away 95% of them before they enter my inbox. The 20 … Continue reading

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