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Mixed results for green IT goals
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:54:03 GMT)
A majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey.

Billions stolen in online robbery
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:22:39 GMT)
Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.

Facebook criticised over privacy
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:48:54 GMT)
The social networking site comes under fire for planned changes to privacy settings.

Regulators eye Google book deal
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:00:46 GMT)
US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.

MySpace 'suicide bully cleared'
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:32:24 GMT)
A woman accused of "cyber-bullying" a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide sees her conviction provisionally thrown out.

Six killed in tower block blaze
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:04:23 GMT)
Three children and three adults die after a blaze swept through a tower block in London.

'Iran trial' for UK embassy staff
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:28:26 GMT)
Some of the British embassy staff arrested in Iran for "inciting protests" will be put on trial, a top cleric says.

Alaska Governor Palin to resign
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:13:52 GMT)
Republican ex-vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin is to quit as Alaska governor amid speculation about a possible presidential bid.

Prince and PM praise soldiers' bravery
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:55 GMT)
The Prince of Wales and Gordon Brown pay tribute to two British soldiers killed in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan.

UN chief to hold more Burma talks
 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:56:36 GMT)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is set to hold a second meeting with Burma's top military leaders.

Dell Studio 1735 Laptop
 (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:21:21 +0000)
I recently purchased a new laptop - a Dell Studio 1735. Its price tag of £1250 is high, but acceptable given the specification and options I added: 2.1GHz T8100 Core2Duo CPU 3GB RAM 320GB 5400 rpm hard disk ATI/AMD Radeon HD Mobility 3650 256MB 17...

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

Nokia N82 / N95 "Alerts Only" - Mute the ringtone but not the alarm
 (Sun, 31 May 2009 22:58 +0100)
I have used this for ages and figured it would be a good tip to share. I wanted a way to mute phone call ringtones and messages while I sleep but still needed to be woken up by the phone's alarm and calendar events the following morning. Changing the... Read More (1255 Characters)

Emotional Intelligence
 (Sun, 31 May 2009 14:39 +0100)
After reading up on "Emotional Intelligence" I just completed an online quiz in this area. Of course we all know quizzes shouldn't be taken too seriously (Facebook's "What kind of pirate are you?" style quizzes almost officially killed the genre) but I fou... Read More (2868 Characters)

MSXML - Microsoft Core XML Services and the latest version?
 (Sat, 23 May 2009 10:50 +0100)
Developers might be used to using code like this: Set objXMLHTTP = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") What is this version? Is this preferable to specifying the version number? Is there a newer version? Would my applications benefit from usin... Read More (3800 Characters)

Remote Control Winamp
 (Sat, 23 May 2009 09:12 +0100)
I have most of my music on a NAS at home but very little IT infrastructure here. After playing with Shoutcast I knew how to stream music from home but unfortunately, controlling it was another issue. Using Remote Desktop to change the music became tiresome... Read More (2127 Characters)

Twitter
 (Sun, 10 May 2009 22:52 +0100)
I would be interested in hearing what bloggers think of twitter. I have had a request to provide more functionality linking BlogX to twitter. Does anyone have any comments? Either comment on this entry or message me in private by clicking the mail icon.

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