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Amusing [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/ovum_l_m/ story] of the week about Ovum. Google news still has the old incorrect version in the cache I’d have sympathy, but a website where each paragraph is highlighted in red and underlined when your mouse goes over it deserves a miserable death. [http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6546 What] were they thinking?

We have all seen Internet shorthand adopted by the world at large. From acronymns such as [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Internet_slang#R ROTFL] through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon smileys] and other usage such as \o/ (person with arms raised as a “yay!” sign) and “o/” (person waving hello/goodbye or for attention). I think we now need to work on getting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed sed] syntax [...]

I’ve been meaning to lookout for a program which allows me more power to edit textareas (i.e. large text boxes) in firefox. Every now and again I want search and replace functionality for example. Well now I use [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 it's all text] which allows me to do this. It even syncs back and forth. If [...]

I had the following conversation with my parents at Christmas: Mum: You don’t have one of those online diary things do you?” Me: A blog? Yes Mum: Oh, where is it? (scribbles note) So, hello there Don’t worry, I do still talk to my parents – I don’t just communicate via my blog! This of [...]

I have firefly (aka mt-daapd) as my music server which my soundbridge wifi gizmo reads from. In firefly I have configured a playlist of “all MP3 files” – however after scanning a few thousand the soundbridge gives an error. “Oh no, there are too many” I thought at first, but actually, it was firefly crashing. [...]