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by andyking 17y ago
I'm finding that even with my Nokia S60 phone ("not yet supported" according to the Google PR stuff) I'm getting Gmail pushed to my device. Worth trying if you haven't already.
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by andyking 17y ago
The Barclay's Bank office down the road from me is hiring again. Let's all start leafing through those luxury yacht catalogues... !
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by andyking 17y ago
That gets on my nerves. I couldn't afford the fine (and, as a 23-year-old male, a hike in the already punitive insurance premium) if I was to be caught speeding. But driving at 70 on a busy motorway is quite difficult - the slow lane is ful
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by andyking 17y ago
I live just down the road from a parked-up Concorde that people pay to go and look round and sit in. In England.
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by andyking 17y ago
The people who generate the traffic news bulletins for local radio stations have had this sort of system for years - it's not wrapped up in trendy terms like "crowdsourcing", but it is very similar. They take phone calls from the public abo
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by andyking 17y ago
The programme as shown is here (with this speech in its original context about 1'30'' in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm4GiyyVKQQ
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by andyking 17y ago
Even more interesting than this one-man band is the progress being made on Eigg and other remote islands off the West Coast of Scotland. Many have never been on the grid (they're islands with 10-100 people living on them) and they've previo
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by andyking 17y ago
All the UK providers seem to, and I haven't seen a phone that doesn't since about 2000.
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by andyking 17y ago
Next door in lovely rural Cheshire.
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by andyking 17y ago
Alternatively, you could find a camp site.
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Village that never was is finally on Google Maps, but in the wrong place(news.scotsman.com)
1 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
Isn't this just more of the same old drivel about that Sam whatever-he's-called, but without naming him? Who on earth is voting this pish up and, more to the point, why ? I'm genuinely interested.
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by andyking 17y ago
There's a picture in my local paper this week of an envelope. It's addressed simply to: The editor of the local paper Congleton Apparently, it arrived at the offices of the Congleton Chronicle without an issue.
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by andyking 17y ago
Even more interesting than this one-man band is the progress being made on Eigg and other remote islands off the West Coast of Scotland. Many have never been on the grid (they're islands with 10-100 people living on them) and they've previo
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by andyking 17y ago
I've had trouble with 1&1 chasing me for money for ye olde accounts, and even in one case where the domain was transferred out - they keep card details on file and auto-renew without notification. Then, when the card is declined because
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by andyking 17y ago
I don't fly, but friends who've used Ryanair have tales of people going down the aeroplane aisle with catalogues, scratch cards, lottery tickets and all sorts of other junk for sale right through the flight. I've even heard an apocryphal st
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by andyking 17y ago
I'm not daft enough to be using Karmic alphas on my home computer but on the current 9.04 version with bundled Firefox 3.0, the default Ubuntu start page and the "real" Google homepage give quite different search results. Perhaps it's down
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by andyking 17y ago
Why would you hope for war and bombings in someone else's country? What a muppet.
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by andyking 17y ago
Agreed. If you've got time to sit and plough through page after page of this drivel, there's plenty of voluntary work out there...
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by andyking 17y ago
Someone installed Firefox on a computer at a non-profit radio station I was involved with not so long ago. The owner of the station sent an email to all saying that if he found out who had installed the "firefox trojan" on the office PC, he
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by andyking 17y ago
Even if you were to open up the Google home page in Maltese or Welsh or some such language, I don't think it'd be too much of a challenge to work out what to do with it. In the UK, it redirects me to google.co.uk (which, as a UK resident, i
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by andyking 17y ago
I have first@firstlast.eu through Google Apps. My name is incredibly common and had been occupied in every conceivable domain extension (and in all the common email services) for years - so when they came out with .eu names, I preordered mi
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by andyking 17y ago
During the late-90s bubble, a group of British radio stations chose the name koko.com for their internet presence. Think about it - could you have found a worse name for something that's going to be read out on the radio repeatedly throug
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by andyking 17y ago
My large three-drawer desk was £10 from an auction - it's in perfectly good condition, it just came from the offices of a company which had gone bust. You can get all sorts of furniture very, very cheaply from auctions. My laser printer was
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How to learn Gaelic(abairthusa.co.uk)
2 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
In Britain, the minimum wage is £3.53 when you're under 18, £4.77 when you're 18-21 and £5.73 when you're 22 or over. When I was still at school, I worked part-time in a big chain store. A lot of the time, when someone turned 18, they were
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by andyking 17y ago
What sort of behaviour change are you after, though? It's all very well saying petrol prices should go up to help the environment, but the people hit hardest are those in rural areas. Should everyone go and rent a city centre apartment and
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by andyking 17y ago
I use the O2 ISP and I often notice that if I stream a popular video from YouTube (or anything from the BBC iPlayer) my browser will tell me it's "transferring data from" an IP address which is in my ISP's own range. It must be cheaper for
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by andyking 17y ago
You only have to open a newspaper to the job page (formerly known as the job pages!) to see where some of the issues lie. I don't know what it's like in the US, but here it's very common to see job advertisements padded out with unnecessary
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Why a firm wants staff with autism(news.bbc.co.uk)
49 points by andyking 17y ago|12 comments

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