Monthly Archives: September 2008

Microblogging for September 29th 2008

Posted on September 30, 2008 by garyshort

Recently I said @markusegger They will appreciate the banks when they are gone and there is no liquidity whatsoever (View) @WinHEC We’ll be at the PDC, dunno about WinHEC though (View) @craigber That being the case, they’ll pay the price … Continue reading →

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Oren Eini in the UK, Want to Hear Him Speak?

Posted on September 30, 2008 by garyshort

When: Monday 13th October 2008, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) – Room 2q50 (in Q block) What: "Producing Production Quality Software" and … Continue reading →

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You See What I Say You See

Posted on September 29, 2008 by garyshort

The trouble with one search engine (whomever that may be) dominating the search scene, is that you only get to find, and therefore see, the information that they say you can. For example, I was reading an article on a … Continue reading →

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All Your Search Are Belong To Us

Posted on September 18, 2008 by garyshort

Just downloaded the new beta of my favourite blogging tool (Window Live Writer) and noticed this nice little dialog that came with it It was the “…and prevent programs from interfering with this choice” I particularly liked 🙂 Technorati tags: … Continue reading →

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Microblogging for September 17th 2008

Posted on September 18, 2008 by garyshort

Recently I said Getting ready to leave to present on excel hacks for Scottish developers dundee (View) @ARGibson good question, I’ll find out and let you know (View) @betsyweber Cool, let me know once you are confirmed, I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Microblogging for September 16th 2008

Posted on September 16, 2008 by garyshort

Recently I said @Karenyo should know better, if she "England" when she means "UK" one more time, I swear I’ll… tut and roll my eyes (More) dear ALT.Net community, go to your rooms ’til you can speak to one another … Continue reading →

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Microblogging Twitter Script

Posted on September 16, 2008 by garyshort

This evening I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool to include my microblogging post (posts on Twitter) in my full blog? So I set about writing a script to fetch all of the previous day’s tweets (well all that … Continue reading →

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Gurkhas Have no Right to Stay in the UK? Are you Kidding me?!!!

Posted on September 16, 2008 by garyshort

Sometimes this country drives me mad. Almost 50,000 Gurkhas have died fighting for Britain since 1815 and 150,000 have been seriously injured while serving. Gurkhas are received at Downing Street before handing in their petition Yet thousands of veterans who … Continue reading →

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AutoCollage Rocks my Socks!

Posted on September 16, 2008 by garyshort

Well not quite, that would be what we call hype; but, truthfully, AutoCollage 2008 is a great product. Here’s a collage I made after my trip to the Leuchars Airshow last weekend. Technorati tags: AutoCollage 2008

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CERN Hack Attack

Posted on September 15, 2008 by garyshort

After a hack attack CERN said: "Scientists working at Cern, the organisation that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were "one step away" from the computer control system of one of the … Continue reading →

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