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Category Archives: Internet
BookOven Launched
Hugh McGuire contacted me on PGDP back in March to test run his new startup, BookOven, before it went live. I wrote about on StumbleUponI a while back Much along the lines of PGDP and Recaptcha, The Book Oven is … Continue reading
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Latitude Tweeting
I musn’t be feeling well, as I’ve signed up for both Twitter and Google Latitude in the last fortnight; surely down to a weakened sense of privacy lately. Google Latitude on the surface sounds like a good idea, although at … Continue reading
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Recent Homonymousities
It’s not unusual to be mistaken for another Chris Gray, though just this week I’ve had two cases of it. Here’s an email I received two days ago: Dear Chris!I am writing with regards to your article “Living the high … Continue reading
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Tagged channel 9, furniture, homonymous, maine, Photography, sketchup
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Macquarie's lost for (new) words
With MMVII said and done, Macquarie Dictionary‘s Word of the Year survey has opened with suggestions for new additions – some hilariousI, some alarmingII and who would have though electronica wasn’t in the dictionary already? They say all entries go … Continue reading
Picasa gets mapped photography
Not to be outdone by competing photo hosts, Google has added their own brand of photo mapping using their current satellite and map data. I quite like it, even though there’s going to be some legwork to get the kinks … Continue reading
OpenCD 07.04 released
We’ve just pushed out the latest version of OpenCD, 07.04. No additions this time around but no less than nineteen updates gave good reason to release a new disc. It also gave me an opportunity to launch three new features … Continue reading
An Amazonian rant and more LibraryThing…
My last two orders from Amazon have arrived slightly bashed about the head so I’ve had a whinge to them. Not in the hope of vouchers or refunds, just to address what has lately been a really poor effort of … Continue reading
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My LibraryThing-a-me-jig
I noticed at abebooks last week that they’d bought forty percent of a not-so-new startup called LibraryThing, so I jumped on over, read the spiel and decided to try it out. Whenever I register somewhere I play the eternally optimistic … Continue reading
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OpenCD 07.02 released
After a few last-minute hiccups we’ve managed to push out OpenCD 07.02, continuing our goal to release regularly and more often than it has been in the past. Aside from the twelve updated programs (hopefully emails for oOO 2.1 will … Continue reading
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The four glorious deaths of Nosferatu
Late last year somebody led me to Movie Deaths (MDDB), a fun database of death scenes in films. Since the great majority of deaths on the site are user submitted, I thought I’d have a crack and knock a whole … Continue reading
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