Tag Archives: communication

Essential site maintenance

It may be that I am Keith Neilson will be unavailable for a bit this afternoon as I’m performing some fairly routine maintenance and spring cleaning. Not to worry though, if all goes as planned we should be back and transmitting as normal later on in the day.
Wish me luck.
M out

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Moving House, Connection Interrupted

I will be moving house (in fact I’ve already moved technically, all my computers are now floating on the ocean somewhere) and so I will not have regular and reliable internets for a couple of weeks. See you when all my belongings get to their destination

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Barnett, Goldacre, and LBC Update

The Botherer (AKA John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) has been following the events surrounding the subject of this post more closely than I and has posted a concise summary on his blog.
I’m beginning to find the behaviour of LBC, Barnett and others quite despicable and would urge anyone who advertises with LBC to [...]

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A Rant About the MSM

How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives | Mail Online.
Oh dear, the Daily Mail doesn’t like the fact that some celebs are using twitter. Surprise, surprise.
What bugs me about this is the sheer hypocrisy of it. On the same page , in the sidebar there is [...]

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Tony Hart Dies

Veteran childrens television presenter, Tony Hart, has died at the age of 83.
Millions of children have grown up watching Mr. Hart on programs such as Vision On, Take Hart, and Hart Beat, which encoureged creativity and artistry in the young. Im remeberance of a man who made a huge contribution to millions of lives I [...]

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Police set to step up hacking of home PCs – Times Online

Police set to step up hacking of home PCs – Times Online.
W. T. F. ????
Unplug your webcam, encrypt everything and possibly invest in a dummy machine designed to inject a horrible virus into the computer of anyone who even attempts to snoop. Keep your private property private.
Gleaned this thru trying to figure out what loudmouthman [...]

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My 2 Year Old uses MSN

My 2 yearold son has been crying at his nursery because he can’t read. According to the staff he sits with a book open on his lap and cries because he can’t read it. Its sweet and heartbreaking, but at least its something that we can remedy.  Here’s how we’re tackling the problem.
We’ve paid for [...]

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Spellcheck 2.0

presenceofmind.net brings the spellchecker into the 21st century. This needs to be done. I can see the implications for AI developement already, if a computer knows and understands the language then communication between humans and AI is that much easier. There are a multitude of online dictionaries available is there some way of tapping these [...]

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Gmail invites…

I’ve been exploring all the various tools that Google has available (My mind is untidy and is basically the equivalent of a pile of bits of paper with random words written on them) and was reminded that I have Gmail invites going begging. If anyone wants one leave a comment, and I may be gracious [...]

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