Category Archives: Internet

Cool things

Sometimes you come across a cool new thing, and you wonder whether or not everybody else already knows about them, but never bothered to say. Well – I’m going to say, but if you know about it already, keep quiet … Continue reading

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Snowball

Well – having posted only 48 hours ago about my QuickURL, and thanks to lots of prompting and suggestions from the guys on the #lugradio IRC channel, I now have LinkPot.net, for all your URL shrinking needs! Finding a good, … Continue reading

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QuickURL (TM)

TinyURL is great. It’s a wonderful service that replaces a really, really long URL, with an itty-bitty URL. For those of us who live online in IM, IRC and forums, it makes life a lot easier. But. (There’s always a … Continue reading

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Galaxy Galaxy

A good proportion of you will be reading this site via a webpage that is powered by the Planet Planet aggregation software. Now, I’m told that Planet Venus is a better aggregator, but I have no real plans to change. … Continue reading

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To all you Django people

OK – if you’re not into Django (the Python webframework), or you don’t know know anyone who does, look away now. Otherwise, I really need your help. Hell – even if you know nothing about Django, but know some database … Continue reading

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Sanctuary

Can’t remember where I first heard about this, but Sanctuary is a big-budget, straight-to-web sci-fi tv series. The first episode was released on the 14th May (you can view it for free at SanctuaryFans.com, and the next ep is due … Continue reading

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Too late, it probably is….

but in case it’s not: mrBen

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:(

Even though it has been reported in many places, I couldn’t fail to mention this. The mighty (in character, not stature) Matthew Revell has departed from the LugRadio team. He’s been there since the beginning, and the show will not … Continue reading

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Procrastination vs Excitement

Not much of a battle, really. I was sitting at work today, contemplating doing some “proper” work for once, but in the end I decided on something completely different. For the last 2 years, in the run-up to the mighty … Continue reading

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Thou Shalt Always Kill

Check out the song (and interview) from Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip, which I found over at Phil Crissman’s site – a brilliant piece of rhetoric, and funny too (Recent links is broken at the moment, otherwise this may … Continue reading

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An Unexpected Pleasure

Well, thanks to a couple of generous offers, and my endlessly patient wife, it looks like I will have the unexpected pleasure of attending the mighty LUGRadio Live again this year. I really hadn’t expected this to happen, so it’s … Continue reading

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Cracked It!

I’m in the middle of a fairly big Django project, but one of the problems was that I wanted to be able to use the Django admin section (which is brilliant), but wanted it to be easy enough for people … Continue reading

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Welcome to our new home

Ok – so things might not look any different, but (yet again) we have moved hosting companies. We’ve waved farewell to WebHosting.uk.com and moved over to Dreamhost. The main reason for the move is cost – for only a little … Continue reading

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Sadville: Ruthy’s Verdict

“Meh” ‘Nuff said… BigAl 

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Sadville, Guild Wars and other online escapades

As I sit here updating my resume again, I’m aware that Ruthy is sitting in the other room downloading the Second Life client. Now, I could have sworn that our second life is taken up by Guild Wars and will … Continue reading

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LUGRadio Live 2007

Well – the event of the year is returning. Jono and the guys have confirmed that the open source/Linux event of the year will be taking place on the 7th-8th July at The Light-House. If the postings on the last … Continue reading

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New Antispam

Well – after some continuing issues both with mail in general, but specifically with the quality of the spam filtering (or lack thereof) with PlusNet, I decided that it was time to add in some extra filtering. Enter GMail, Googles … Continue reading

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Tracking the speed of a meme

Feel free to take part in this experiment mrBen

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Digital Rights Management

Watch the video, and check out this article. DRM affects everyone – not just geeks. mrBen

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Two (very) important campaigns

I don’t normally blog about these things, preferring to leave them in the ‘recent links’ categories, but there are 2 campaigns going at the moment that I think are vital in 21st Century Britain: 1. A petition to allow for … Continue reading

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