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About Me, Grey Nicholson
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2021-09-29
Consume!
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2018-04-28
21st century season calendar
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2018-04-21
Self-driving cars: software crashes
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2018-02-25
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“It just works automatically!”
The Patriot Act
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2018-02-25
Big New Tab Button
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2009-05-06
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An add-on for Firefox. It makes the New Tab button bigger.
Into the Fire
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2009-03-06
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This entry is not a good idea.
Remove Close Buttons from Tabs
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2009-03-03
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A self-explanatorily–named Firefox add-on.
The Laissez-faire Paradox
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2009-02-19
Just Give Me A Back Button
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2009-02-16
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2009-03-02
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An extension to remove the Forward button from Firefox.
“You're the Cables that Connect Me” (the 2009-02-13 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2009-02-13
↓
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2009-01-19
How to set up a Canon i250 printer in Ubuntu 8.10
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2008-11-26
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2009-03-19
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A script to set up a Canon i250 printer in Ubuntu 8.10
Welfare State Fail
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2008-11-18
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Hartlepool's local MP strikes again—in London
Sssspppppllllllllaaaarrrgghhh!!!!
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2008-11-03
New Elements in HTML 5
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2008-04-01
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A quick look at a couple of the new elements in the new version of HTML.
A corollary to Arthur C. Clarke's third law
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2008-03-21
Line of Sight
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2008-03-19
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A short narrative.
Unprecedented Occurrences
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2008-03-05
“You Wrote Your Number on My Hand & It Came Off in the Rain” (the 2008-02-29 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2008-02-29
The BBC Loves Them Some Microsoft
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2008-02-22
Places’ Full Titles
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2008-02-10
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An extension for Firefox.
The BBC Misunderstands DRM
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2008-01-30
“I Did Your Wife a Favour” (the 2008-01-11 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2008-01-11
Dumb Lock
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2008-01-10
The New Illiteracy of the Internet
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2008-01-02
Being “natural”
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-11-28
An American entry
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2007-11-28
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2007-12-16
“It's Forgetting that would Beat it All” (the 2007-11-23 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-11-23
Random Stat
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-11-15
A Quick Vignette, Using the Gimp
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2007-11-11
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2009-02-20
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A brief tutorial.
The Poppy Appeal
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2007-11-11
Hydroelectric
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2007-11-10
Three Blogger bugs
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2007-11-10
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A summary of several annoying bugs affecting the Googlemonster's blog-publishing service.
A Human's Guide to Relating to Other Beings
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-11-10
Exploding Articles
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2007-11-07
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Ideas and expectations snowball.
“Necessity Conquers Fear” (the 2007-10-26 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-10-26
Shingai Shoniwa’s socks
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2007-10-09
Brothers or Sisters
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-10-07
“It's in the Eyes of the Beholder” (the 2007-09-28 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-09-29
BBC msPlayer
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2007-09-07
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How the BBC are helping Microsoft maintain their monopoly on the UK's operating systems.
Whoever wrote the Job Centre’s website should be fired
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2007-09-07
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The UK government can't even run a website, never mind a country.
Playing well with others
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-09-04
The Big Brother Final is tonight, but what’s the weather like?
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2007-08-31
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2007-09-01
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During the climax of this year's Big Brother, some idiot decided to live-blog the view out of his bedroom window.
“Pour Salt into that Wound of Yours” (the 2007-08-31 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-08-31
How to write kick-ass blog posts like it ain’t no thang
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2007-08-30
Answers on a Postcard
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2007-08-26
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2009-02-10
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No comments
How To Make Scroll Bars A Little Bit Easier To Use
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2007-08-05
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If I say this was inspired by the iPhone's user interface will it get me more hits? (I thought of this while reading about how the iPhone forgives sloppy keypresses.)
The wheelchair symbol
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-08-04
How To Make Thunderbird Well Sexy
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2007-08-03
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2007-09-05
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How I envisage the Thunderbird of the future—we'll have it in our flying cars. (This is a re-publication—with a few minor edits—of a comment I wrote to Asa Dotzler's blog post about the reaction to the reorganisation of Thunderbird's development.)
About the blog's title
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-07-16
“We Won't Save You” (the 2007-07-13 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-07-13
Hiatus
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2007-07-11
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The golden age of Mooquackwooftweetmeow is not upon us.
Introduction
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from
Walking Dataloss
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2007-07-09
“Under a Sinking Sun” (the 2007-06-22 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-06-22
Previously on the Friday Fetch-it...
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the Friday Fetch-it
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2007-06-22
Take the Drowned in Sound pledge
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2007-05-22
On “on Volta”
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2007-05-09
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2022-05-13
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(This is the first entry I've made from Ubuntu.)
Six
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2007-05-06
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2007-11-10
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I've been tinkering with the site again.
I'll be brand new, brand new tomorrow; a little bit tired, but brand new
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2006-12-31
Keep It Simple, Stupid
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2006-12-19
“Burning a Path for Us to Share” (the 2006-11-25 Saturday Fetch-it)
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the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-11-25
Planet X-4: Pluto is a Planet; so is Eris; so is Sedna; and so are Charon, the Moon, Ceres, Titan and Quaoar
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2006-11-21
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2008-12-01
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Hang on – I thought you said...?
“Knocking the Aeroplanes Down with Stones” (the 2006-11-17 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-11-18
“Promises of Passion and Adventure” (the 2006-11-11 Saturday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-11-11
“I Bet You Find Life Hard to Live with” (the 2006-11-04 Saturday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-11-04
Dear LazyWeb, How Do I Make iTunes “Play Next In Party Shuffle” from Windows' Command Line?
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2006-10-30
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After the last entry I was gonna wait until November before writing anything, but then I got bored. Also, this entry breaks my previous record for “most subsequent entry titles to incorporate ‘Laz’”.
“You Threw Pennies In and Wished” (the 2006-10-29 Sunday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-10-30
The Greatest Comeback Since Lazarus
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2006-10-27
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More words will come soon... honest
“In Your Eyes that Certain Shine” (the 2006-10-20 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-10-20
“Something's Drawn Me Here Again” (the 2006-10-15 Sunday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-10-14
“Up Her Dosage” (the 2006-07-14 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-07-15
“I View from Afar” / “Once I Have Found the Words” (the 2006-07-07 Friday Fetch-its)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-07-08
“There is No Peace that I've Found So Far” / “Drift In Your Eyes” (the 2006-06-23 Friday Fetch-its)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-06-23
“Change Before I Slip Away” (the 2006-06-09 Friday Fetch-it)
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the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-06-10
“There is Liberation Here” (the 2006-06-06 Tuesday Fetch-it)
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the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-06-06
“All You Need Is” (the 2006-05-26 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-05-27
“Hear Me Say Now” (the 2006-05-19 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-05-19
“But You've Gotta Know Their Lies” (the 2006-05-12 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-05-12
“You Never Understood Me” (the 2006-05-05 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-05-05
“I'll Wake Up in Fifty Years and Feel the Same” (the 2006-04-29 Saturday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-04-29
“The Doors Have Metal Plates” (the 2006-04-21 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-04-21
TFI Firday
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2006-04-15
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2007-09-01
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The Mooquackwooftweetmeow Empire continues to expand relentlessly
“We're Two of a Kind” (the 2006-04-14 Friday Fetch-it)
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from
the Friday Fetch-it
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2006-04-14
Taking Organised Crime Seriously
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2006-04-03
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You can tell from the name - they're not messing around.
The Weirdest Part
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2006-03-31
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Another one bites the dust
The Hippy Test
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2005-12-31
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A checklist of telltale hippy-being symptoms.
Standards by Virtue of Shouting Louder
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2005-12-31
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2006-04-01
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or “omg it si t3h stand4rd lol”
Pinky and the Darkness
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2005-12-30
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That last entry was pretty vitriolic, wasn't it? This one's much nicer.
Google Desktop 2 Really Annoys Me
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2005-12-28
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Google's trademark people might not want to read this.
November
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2005-12-18
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Yeah, I know. No entries for a while.
Off to York
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2005-09-25
Actually-Free Opera
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2005-09-20
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Opera is now actually free, properly, for real.
Party Shuffle on Crack
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2005-09-19
Magically Disappearing Extensions
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2005-09-08
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Warning: this entry contains Mozilla-related minutiæ... or Mozillinutiæ if you will.
Bigger than an iPod nano
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2005-09-08
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Why, it's iTunes 5
Le singe est dans l'arbre
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2005-09-06
Stuart Maconie is going to get shot
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2005-09-03
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...with a gun - by lots of Geordies who aren't wearing shirts but are enjoying excellent music.
Free Opera
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2005-08-31
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Captain Opera to the rescue!
Your Computer May Be Commandeered By Randomers
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2005-08-31
Google Desktop 2
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2005-08-23
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Fourteen hours too late.
Microsoft Desktool MSN Windows Search...top...bar
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2005-08-21
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Now you can look at things stored on your computer... using MSN!!!
The Recent Entries Page
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2005-08-20
Vega 2
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2005-08-20
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Mooquackwooftweetmeow in more colour
A rant about foreigners
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2005-08-19
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Middle-endian dates are crap.
Back/Forward Dropdown Menus - an Extension for Firefox
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2005-08-03
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2008-01-30
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An Extension for Firefox that turns the entire Back and Forward buttons into dropdown menus.
Bookmarks' Full Titles - an Extension for Firefox
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2005-08-01
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2008-02-10
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An Extension for Firefox that shows bookmarks' full titles in the Bookmarks menu and Bookmarks Toolbar menus.
Back/Forward Dropdown Remover - an Extension for Firefox
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2005-08-01
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2008-01-30
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An Extension for Firefox that removes the dropdown arrows from the Back and Forward buttons.
Atom 1.0 Coming Soon
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2005-07-31
Vega
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2005-07-30
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2005-09-04
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Mooquackwooftweetmeow in colour
Planet X-3: Pluto Still Isn't a Planet, Neither Are 2003 UB313 and 2003 EL61
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2005-07-30
The Style Switcher is Dead; Long Live CSS
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2005-07-29
I don't like The O.C.
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2005-07-29
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Channel 4's sucky morning TV's back for the summer
A Party Election Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats
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2005-05-03
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The Mooquackwhatnotbot was broken, so I cooked this up as filler material
Netscape 4 is newer than Internet Explorer 6
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2005-04-12
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If you thought Netscape 4 was outdated, check out IE6.
Obfuscating Tedium
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2005-04-12
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Damn, I love that thesaurus
Man-Driver
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2005-04-12
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It's always a bad idea to invent words (disclaimer: this doesn't include concatenation)
Map.search.ch Gets Cooler
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2005-04-08
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It's like GTA but for the real world!
Tabbed Thunderbird
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2005-04-03
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Proposal for a one-pane interface for Thunderbird
This is why you should always keep your web browser window at a random size
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2005-04-01
Where Next?
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2005-03-31
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Another improvement to the Whatnotbot
Mozilla Europe is Useless
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2005-03-31
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Evidence that geographical segregation on the web doesn't work – it's pointless anyway
You have to go and spoil it for everyone
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2005-03-30
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Grumble! (Any word can be onomatopoeic)
America's screwy
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2005-03-30
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Really, it's not their fault. Poor bastards.
Netscape 8 Beta Review
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2005-03-05
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The latest developments in the ugly web browser scene
Making M-Theory Simple
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2005-03-03
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Cosmology for kids
The Register's Inability To Do Research Mocked by All Everywhere
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2005-02-28
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This is the first entry I've made while standing.
IEBlurb
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2005-02-21
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Another Microsoftian view of “Browsing the Web”
Thinking Different
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2005-02-20
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This is not how to write proper.
Computers Don't Listen
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2005-02-20
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Remember, folks, hardware is the part you can kick.
Now Slightly Less Cool
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2005-02-09
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404 - description not found
It's a Weblog Entry!
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2005-01-08
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What - the title isn't descriptive enough?
Normal service will resume shortly
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2004-12-15
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You didn't think I was dead, did you?
To Do
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2004-10-05
Get Squirefox
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2004-09-28
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More spoof Get Firefox buttons
Self-Infringing
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2004-09-27
The terrorists have already won
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2004-09-24
Featured Entry
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2004-09-22
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I now get to choose what goes on the front page while maintaining my beloved automation
Firefox-related miscellanea
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2004-09-22
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2004-10-06
George Bush, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, John McEnroe, Britney Spears, John F Kennedy, Paris Hilton, Bruce Willis, Michael Jordan, Jay Leno, Rudolph Giuliani... Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating
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2004-09-20
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Hello, America? You lose.
Live Bookmarks
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2004-09-17
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How to swap bookmarks with your friends, with help from a Firefox
en-semantic
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2004-09-14
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Writing English correctly is difficult. (By the way, for non-hacker types, the title implies that semantic English is a distinct dialect of English.)
Jukefox
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2004-09-13
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Why does no-one listen to you when you're right?
IEBlank
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2004-09-13
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The Internet Explorer gang's collective web browsing knowledge
A-level exam results
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2004-08-24
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Rather predictably, the results of my A-level exams
Firefox extension wackiness
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2004-08-24
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Firefox extensions prompt much mirth
Bringing down the establishment one pillock at a time
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2004-08-17
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This one's gonna lead to a few years in gaol (...it's fun to spell "jail" like that)
UNcalled-for pUN
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2004-08-02
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The UN is a shining example of naffness.
Bandwagon-Jumping as a Scientific Experiment
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2004-08-02
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All your weblog are belong to us.
First-come First-served Intellectual Property
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2004-07-30
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More proof, if proof were needed, that the plane of existence we like to call the universe, is categorically bonkers
Slight Delay
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2004-07-30
Work-in-progress
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2004-07-29
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Thanks to Doug Bowman, I'm having a bash at conjuring up a new design for the site
This title isn't funny, witty, quirky or original
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2004-07-27
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Why did the blogger cross the road? No-one cares.
InterCraps
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2004-07-23
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Another English-related public service announcement
The Emporium Can't Count
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2004-07-22
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An hilarious example of corporate idiocy
Reorderiffic
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2004-07-22
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You thought this was a weblog, but no! It's a changelog!
Loosing My Mind
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2004-07-21
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Learn to spell, you troop of pillocks!
White People Proven Unfriendly
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2004-07-20
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The latest findings of the Commision for Racial Equality
Plan Change II
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2004-07-19
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More tweaks to the site
I've Got A Brand New Content Management System And I'll Give You The Key
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2004-07-19
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The Mooquackwhatnotbot, what it does, how it works and what it ate for breakfast.
Foundation and Whatnot
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2004-07-18
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A book? What - on paper?!
Bye Bye, Gormozilla
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2004-07-17
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The gormless Mozilla Support mascot goes AWOL
No Blues
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2004-07-17
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Overzealous fastidiousness rears its ugly head once more
RIP Decent TV
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2004-07-16
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Bloody teenagers
Alright Now
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2004-07-12
Proper Multiple Styleage
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2004-07-11
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The site's multiple-style-ability is now up to scratch
Style Switcher
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2004-07-11
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2005-07-29
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Choose a stylesheet with which to view Mooquackwooftweetmeow
Print Away
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2004-07-04
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Rejoice! Rejoice! The print stylesheets have returned!
Toliman
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2004-07-03
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Alternate stylesheet-orama
Slight Change of Plan
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2004-07-03
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Permanent links, take two
Welcome to Mooquackwooftweetmeow version 3.1
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2004-07-01
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Whoa, Nelly! Is that an overhaul I spy?!
Prototastic
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2004-06-23
Don't hash those numbers!
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2004-06-21
Hash those hs!
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2004-06-21
Trippin'
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2004-06-21
Whoops!
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2004-06-20
Quote of the Minute: 2004-06-19 23:34 BST
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2004-06-19
The Gmail Web Interface and How To Avoid It
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2004-06-19
Gmail invites by the busload
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2004-06-19
Gmail
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2004-06-18
Indie Pop Rocks!
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2004-06-18
Microsoft Bollocks
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2004-06-17
How to remove the borders from Firefox and Thunderbird's toolbars
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2004-06-17
The Wonders of MiracleGro
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2004-06-16
Does Your Browser Have An Add Toaster Button?
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2004-06-16
One Tree Hill
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2004-06-15
Watch out - here comes the “link to other weblogs” trick!
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2004-06-07
The Twaddlebot has been unleashed
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2004-06-07
On-the-fly page validation
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2004-06-01
Chameleon
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2004-05-23
Stop! Thief!
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2004-05-21
Very curious...
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2004-05-12
Free fastness
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2004-04-27
I've actually just finished the last post...
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2004-04-27
Adventures in XML
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2004-04-27
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2004-06-07
Opera + XSL = Eugh
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2004-04-23
IE + XML + XSL + XHTML + W3C = Get In!
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2004-04-23
Wow - two entries in ten minutes - you'd think this was a weblog or something
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2004-04-23
Hurrah for Ridiculous Quotes!
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2004-04-23
Mandrakelinux
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2004-04-18
April Fool!
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2004-04-01
Planet X-2
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2004-03-15
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2004-04-27
Planet X
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2004-03-15
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2004-04-27
Apostrophes
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2004-03-15
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2004-07-19
Bye Bye, Sharpreader
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2004-03-14
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2004-04-27
VirtuaWin
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2004-03-12
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2004-04-27
The Twaddle is now printastic, and other web-authoring-related digressions
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2004-03-08
RSSification
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2004-02-24
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2004-04-27
Lulu
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2004-02-23
Winwall
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2004-02-22
Pluto Isn't a Planet
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2004-02-21
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2004-04-27
Mooquackwooftweetmeow's Going Nowhere
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2004-02-20
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2004-07-01
Klipfolio + Atom = 1/2
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2004-02-20
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2004-04-27
Isn't XML wonderful?
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2004-02-20
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2004-03-04
No Knoppix
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2004-02-20
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2004-04-27
Namespaces are fairly fun
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2004-02-19
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2004-04-27
Wow! Internet Explorer can even mangle XML!
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2004-02-19
Freewebs aren't very good at MIME types... part II
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2004-02-19
Freewebs aren't very good at MIME types
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2004-02-19
Klipfolio + Atom = 0
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2004-02-19
Copy and paste...
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2004-02-19
Hurrah once more!
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2004-02-19
Hurrah!
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2004-02-19
Take Back the Web
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2004-02-17
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This is the bit where I talk about Mozilla Firefox for a while
It's Still Not A Tree
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2004-02-10
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2007-03-22
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The website formerly known as This Wasn't A Tree
Norwegian Beer
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2003-10-19