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Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 00:10:24 GMT)
US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.

Burma's emergency telecoms delay
 (Fri, 09 May 2008 16:54:11 GMT)
Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.

Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine
 (Fri, 09 May 2008 16:33:23 GMT)
Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

Facebook agrees child safety plan
 (Thu, 08 May 2008 19:39:17 GMT)
Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.

MySpace lets users share data
 (Fri, 09 May 2008 00:20:01 GMT)
MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.

Hezbollah to end Beirut seizure
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 19:33:00 GMT)
Hezbollah agrees to pull its gunmen out of Beirut after Lebanon's army settles tensions with the government.

Sudanese rebels 'reach Khartoum'
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 20:29:03 GMT)
Government troops clash with rebels from Darfur outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, reports say.

Teenager murdered in bakery shop
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 18:09:38 GMT)
A murder inquiry is launched after a 16-year-old boy dies following an attack in the bakery where he worked in London.

Blair scared of Brown - Prescott
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 20:19:48 GMT)
John Prescott tells of the furious resentment between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Tsvangirai to run in second round
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 12:08:08 GMT)
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will face Robert Mugabe in an election run-off, amid fears of violence.

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UTF-8 Support
 (Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:54:50 +0000)
After spending ages working with UTF-8 the other day, as I mentioned in my previous post, I've finally added UTF-8 support to this site. Both comments and posts by me are now able to contain all kinds of crazy characters without resorting to complex HTML ...

UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL
 (Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:44:59 +0000)
I spent the best part of today researching how to properly handle Unicode - specifically UTF-8 - with PHP and MySQL for Web applications. Since this is something that has stumped me for a while, I decided to make this post about it. This will be as much ...

My Xbox 360 Died Again!
 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:28:57 +0000)
Update (2007/09/22): I should probably update this to say that on the 30th August I received a refurbished Xbox 360 from Microsoft that not only works (no problems thus far, and I've had many a 5-hour gaming session on it), but it also considerably quiete...

More Spooky Occurrences
 (Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:53:50 +0000)
What the hell is this? A CAD comic containing both a character whose name contains "lorddeath", but also a character named Andrew in the same panel. People are out to get me, I swear it :P

Spooky Xbox Blog
 (Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:28:11 +0000)
I'm a little concerned that my Xbox 360's blog says "he better not be playing with a Nintendo Wii" on the day after mine's delivered and, in fact, I had spent a good part of the day playing LoZ Twilight Princess. There is nowhere where 360voice.com could ...

Religion
 (Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50 +0100)
So here's a few things I've found this morning that have evoked some discussion amongst friends:

Religion of Atheists, Science is our only religion - http://www.churchofreality.org

Become your own minister (legally.. as in you can actually host a mar... Read More (433 Characters)

"Matthew, here are nearby people that you may want to meet in person"
 (Mon, 5 May 2008 17:35 +0100)
Another brilliant Facebook related e-mail I had to share:

This email was sent by Social Profile. You can disable emails here.
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These people live near you and may be cool to meet.

This is how other people have ranked them: ... Read More (649 Characters)

Emtec Ceedo..
 (Sun, 4 May 2008 18:08 +0100)
My dad brought up the 2 Emtec Ceedo drives so I could transfer some data to my laptop.. While waiting for things to copy I tried running the Ceedo software on it (figuring it probably needed an update) and after dismissing the firewall alert, found it woul... Read More (2339 Characters)

Surely a Facebook prank?
 (Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:05 +0100)
One of my contacts joined the delightfully tasteful "Girls have s*** banter. FACT" (http://www.Facebook.com/group.php?gid=2254816361) Facebook group.

While trying to work out if this was some elaborate joke or if there are people naive enough to believ... Read More (221 Characters)

FoneJacker Has His Say
 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:16 +0100)
This person clearly has been watching the TV series FoneJacker ... Read More (631 Characters)

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