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Phone Scam!

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Posted in Funny, media, Home, Security, Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 at 6:46 pm

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I think I may be the victim of a “phone scam”. This morning two lasses came round claiming to be students just moved into the house a couple of doors a way. The said they were trying to set up their internet connection

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Get the Website Right!

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Posted in Open Source Software, the web, Coding, Blogs, e-commerce on September 22, 2008 at 9:04 am

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I blogged a while back about the exciting(!) purchase of my new Dyson http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/davef/2008/09/09/hoovering-up-engineering/

I’ve just had an email asking me to write a review. Being an opinionated guy and someone who values user reviews I thought I would just type a quick “yes it works” at http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/406848/DYSON-DC14-ANIMAL.

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Sold Short

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Posted in In the news, faith, Northern Rock, e-commerce on September 18, 2008 at 9:01 am

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How can it be right for a bunch of rich guys to make money out of MAKING misery for the rest of us?
By selling short (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_selling) you can gamble on a share price falling. The problem is if you are big enough you can influence the price down just by selling, so by selling short you push the price down and increase your odds

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Programmers Documentation - the doxygen way

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Posted in Open Source Software, QT, Coding on September 16, 2008 at 11:03 am

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I have been producing some programmers documentation. The shrieks of horror (or snores of boredom) that normally accompany such a statement have been mercifully short. I have been using doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/

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Worried about the Big Bang or just a small beep?

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Posted in e-commerce on September 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm

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Hoovering up Engineering

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Posted in education, Home, e-commerce on September 9, 2008 at 2:45 pm

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Having finally given up on my Hoover which needed its filters cleaning after every room (seriously!) I found a cheap (relatively) Dyson online at Comet (the animal at

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X factor Rant!

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Posted in In the news, faith, media on September 4, 2008 at 12:50 pm

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The X factor is back. That people watch it I can believe, that intelligent caring people watch it I believe but only because I have witnessed them doing it. The humiliation of obviously incapable people for the purpose of entertainment is obscene.
We used to open our

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Cleaning up Standards

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Posted in faith, Men and Women, music on September 2, 2008 at 1:14 pm

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Sorry, I’ve been catching up at work and on the forum for Greenbelt http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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