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by andyking 18y ago
That's probably 0 degrees north, 0 degrees west, right on the Greenwich meridian and the equator, in the Gulf of Guinea. It's a spot that basically means "no data".
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by andyking 18y ago
It's not something I've ever come across in Britain. People will tend to go and have a stroll around a local country park, or just round the streets near home. Personally, I couldn't think of anywhere worse than a shopping centre to spend a
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by andyking 18y ago
Retirees Dick and Anne Saplata work out by walking around the largely empty halls of the Metcalf South Mall in Leawood, Kan. It’s likely to close soon, and there’s talk that a developer will raze the place. If the mall goes under, Dick Sap
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by andyking 18y ago
A local radio station where I live did something similar to this. They started following everyone with a connection to either radio or the area. It started out as a decent account--someone at the station replied to tweets, followed new peop
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by andyking 18y ago
I went through university in the UK during the last three years without owning my own laptop. Had they not had computer labs, I wouldn't have been able to get any work done at all. We pay enough to study without having to fork out for compu
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by andyking 18y ago
These are pretty standard demographic classifications in Britain, used in marketing and such-like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade In, for example, the media you'll quite regularly come across such things as "Over 50% of our
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by andyking 18y ago
At risk of having my karma blown to smithereens, was I the only one who clicked this expecting to find a page of insults?
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by andyking 18y ago
What if you're not remotely arsed about getting mega-rich, but just want to get by and earn enough money to survive doing what you love? I'd rather live frugally and work on something fun than be loaded but despising what I spend ten hours
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by andyking 18y ago
Would it not also be the world's first mag edited from beyond the grave?
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by andyking 18y ago
"Socialist Europe"? What on earth are you babbling about? It sounds like a fringe newspaper sold by scruffy types on street corners. Whatever your views, Europe is a capitalist society. The UK's just as much a part of Europe as Belgium or a
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by andyking 18y ago
Radio stations have also become increasingly automated over the past few years and mostly have no-one in the building overnight. (In days gone by, they'd sometimes employ a DJ to play music without talking through the night!) However, there
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by andyking 18y ago
Here's something else from (this part of) Europe: 'bollocks'. For a start, each country has its own rules on unemployment benefits and I've no idea where they pay 80% of your current pay. Then, at least in Britain, they send you on pretty p
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by andyking 18y ago
I come from the city where Wedgwood was founded. The one thing this article fails to mention is what I believe was the company's ultimate downfall. The pot works of Wedgwood and Royal Doulton (another pottery company bought by Wedgwood a fe
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by andyking 18y ago
I replaced my ancient mobile with the latest LG Cookie last week. It's just a £100 pay as you go model, not really a smartphone, but it has a touch-screen and turning it on its side when writing a message reveals an on-screen QWERTY keypad.
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by andyking 18y ago
O2 have always had a very good network. I'd imagine that unless you're using a really awful phone, call quality is similar on the prehistoric Nokia 3210 or the latest state of the art iPhone.
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by andyking 18y ago
Most people already have a digital TV receiver, either via terrestrial (Freeview) or satellite (Sky). There's also cable in some areas. The old analogue terrestrial signals are being turned off region-by-region. Part of the Scottish Borders
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by andyking 18y ago
My mobile phone's old and decrepit and often loses its date and time, going back to November 2005 for reasons known only to itself. The first I know of it, Opera Mini is refusing to connect to the web. I always wondered why that should be t
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Depression among the young at alarming level, says charity(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by andyking 18y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 18y ago
There's one major obstacle to adoption of non-IE browsers: something I call the "big blue E syndrome". I see it a lot at work-- all computers have both IE and Firefox installed and the icons are positioned next to one another on the desktop
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by andyking 18y ago
Are they any good though? I'm looking at hosting for a single Wordpress blog at present (well, actually, I signed up for a host a fortnight ago, they took my money and never got back to me, so I'm looking AGAIN). But claims like "Storage: U
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by andyking 18y ago
With plenty of added effing and jeffing for no apparent reason.
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by andyking 18y ago
I'm probably about as "un-HN" as you can get. I live in a small industrial northern English city, about 10,000 miles from the buzz of Silicon Valley both physically and metaphorically. I don't know how to code except a bit of really basic s
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by andyking 18y ago
With it having "1" in the title bar, I was expecting a second page. Instead, it just sort of... ended abruptly. I was hoping for more.
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by andyking 18y ago
I don't think Paul Krugman is the kind of low-ranking hack who'd need to get attention in that way.
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by andyking 18y ago
I can't believe someone at BBC News wrote "Wi-fi go bye bye". Have they been seconded from CBeebies?
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by andyking 18y ago
I think that ditch just coincides with a time limit of about ten seconds on most cars. I wonder how far they'd get if they weren't time-limited.
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by andyking 18y ago
It's fine for me to the precise town, but I'm on a static IP and someone's probably put it into one of the databases in the past. At work, opening Google Maps zooms you straight to the exact work address. Now that's spooky.
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by andyking 18y ago
But that site has the "enter your zip code" wall, a wholly unfriendly stumbling block for a non-US user to be faced with on any site. (You'd be surprised how many people, erm, "live" in 90210 on signup forms!) goingtorain.com somehow detect
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by andyking 18y ago
I'm not so sure I agree. At least with our relatively benign government, there are certain checks and balances on the use of our data. Under "Little Brother", any crackpot with a bizarre agenda would have carte blanche to observe and record
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Bebo kids will value privacy when they see adults do too(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by andyking 18y ago|2 comments

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