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by andyking 16y ago
I saw something similar in Scotland a couple of years ago - on a particularly dangerous bend, there was a car positioned as if it had run off the road, with a "police aware" sign next to it. When I passed by the same spot three weeks later,
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Opera holds the web's most valuable secret(theregister.co.uk)
200 points by andyking 16y ago|63 comments
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by andyking 16y ago
HDNL are brilliant. I ordered something from Amazon last week and wasn't in when it was delivered. A card was duly popped through my letterbox to say the item had been left in a "safe place" - my grey wheelie bin, on bin collection day...
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by andyking 16y ago
On mine (5.0.342.9) you just drag them.
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by andyking 16y ago
It's not perfect. Whenever I go on a page in Scottish Gaelic, it says "this page is in Irish - would you like to translate it?" That could cause some trouble. The languages are admittedly similar and there's some level of mutual comprehensi
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A cloud with a silver lining [Icelandic volcano](hiddeneurope.co.uk)
2 points by andyking 16y ago|1 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
On a vaguely related note, it's very peaceful with no planes flying over. You don't realise just how constant that hiss of people jetting about over your head is until it's gone.
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by andyking 17y ago
Something very similar to this has popped up recently in Manchester - http://www.fablabmanchester.org/ Unlike the one in the article, there's no subscription charge that I know of; it's free to use at certain times (with the caveat that y
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by andyking 17y ago
I read the other day that they've come to a compromise with the positions of the buttons. They're staying on the left, but the close button will be in the corner of the window - it'll go close, minimise, maximise. I'm happy with that person
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by andyking 17y ago
Correct. They messed around with the local authorities where I live last year - I was in Cheshire and I'm now in something called "Cheshire East". My neighbours are in "Cheshire West and Chester". The address "52 High Street, Northwich, Che
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by andyking 17y ago
Fox News is relayed on the News Corp-owned Sky platform in the UK, in an obscure EPG position down among the other "international" news channels from Japan, Russia, France etc. It doesn't show any advertising - where the US has ad breaks, t
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by andyking 17y ago
Isn't it just like any other office? I work in a small FM radio station and we quite frequently get visits from listeners, both on request and unannounced. I'm not sure what sort of showbiz glitz and glamour they're expecting; apart from on
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by andyking 17y ago
Working from home, you're not even as likely to gain the valuable contacts that are a genuine benefit of office-based internships. You're basically just bashing away in a room on your own all day. I frequent a UK-based media website that of
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by andyking 17y ago
I recently bought a Nokia mobile which came with a (fairly poor) top down racing game based on the built-in mapping and GPS.[1] The premise was that you could race around the town you were actually in, but the sheer volume of mapping data m
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by andyking 17y ago
I'm often a bit afraid of running some games for a long time when I hear the video card fan going ten-to-the-dozen and feel the computer case warming up. I'm frightened some part I can't afford to replace, like the graphics card, might wear
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by andyking 17y ago
...which reads, with a couple of exceptions, like a list of countries where the BBC World Service has the bulk of its audience.
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by andyking 17y ago
In Britain, an advertising campaign for keeping your TV licence up to date carries the slogan: "It's all in the database". I don't own a TV, yet regularly get threatening letters from their "database" saying "we know you're watching TV" and
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by andyking 17y ago
I bought andyking.eu when .eu names were first made available for just that reason, although I only use it for email and not for any web presence - I blog on a different domain. Of course, having such a common name, very little about me app
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by andyking 17y ago
I never managed to get it to actually say where I was - it would frequently decide I was in London or some other random place hundreds of miles away where (presumably) my ISP had a presence. On one particularly memorable occasion, I got an
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by andyking 17y ago
Or even: how do we get Virgin Media onto the rest of the UK's soil? Their network coverage, being made up of piecemeal local networks built in the '80s and '90s that have slowly merged and been taken over until they eventually became one co
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by andyking 17y ago
I was wondering about this myself when I read the article. I live in the UK and while you very occasionally see the odd person sitting in the corner of a cafe on a laptop, it's nowhere near as common as it seems to be in the US. It's cert
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by andyking 17y ago
I don't think you can generalise in such a way. I had a proper diagnosis made whilst at school but manage to hold down friendships, family relationships and work in a fairly "social" and communicative field (radio). It makes a few things li
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by andyking 17y ago
I get about 4Mbps on a connection that advertises itself, in true British ISP fashion, as "up-to" 24Mbps. However, I pay a far less eye-watering ~$11 a month for a connection with no formal cap (although there is a "fair use policy" so if y
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E-safety software 'is spying' on teachers(tes.co.uk)
1 points by andyking 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 17y ago
The language of the place names seems fairly arbitrary too. I've noticed them switch a few times from English to Welsh and back in Wales - Caerdydd instead of Cardiff, Pen-y-bont for Bridgend. Something similar happened to Ireland for a few
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by andyking 17y ago
We need more of this sort of thing. It's arguably far more important to get good internet access to rural areas than to inner cities. If you're in Central London or Manchester, you can quite easily shop, meet others in your field of work, n
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by andyking 17y ago
They could also do what 3 have done in the UK with Skype - all their new phones have a 3-produced Skype app preloaded which appears to work just like any other installation of Skype. Behind the scenes, updating your contact list and sending
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by andyking 17y ago
When I use my Vodafone USB stick on their UK 2G network, they silently proxy everything and compress images - it's dreadful. On 3G, they seem to let images through in their original state. They're also pretty censorious. Needless-to-say, th
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by andyking 17y ago
A radio industry forum did that a few years ago - fed up of the vitriol being spouted anonymously, the forum owner closed it down and reopened it with a verified real name policy. You have to register with an employer email address and the
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by andyking 17y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've lost count of the number of times I've read an interesting article on the Guardian website only to have hundreds upon hundreds of dull comments and irrelevant arguments squeezed down my meagre internet connection

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