One Resolution for 2014
Be Better.
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Poppies, Future Soldiers, and Remembrance
This week in a press release the Royal British legion published a photograph of four children bearing big smiles, holding giant poppies wearing bright yellow t-shirts. On one of the t-shirts were the words, “My Mum Dad are Veterans”, where the remaining three bore the phrase “Future Soldier”. Today I...
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Folding UK Plugs
Anyone who has spent any time travelling with laptops in the UK will tell you there are two major bug bears – weight, and three pin plugs. Three pin plugs are a scourge upon the earth, their “safety” offset by the annoying bulk and tendency to prod, poke and tear...
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Virgin Media Replies With Respect To Their T&Cs
For those unfamiliar, Virgin Media has a potentially very wide reaching clause in their T&Cs (Section D, Part 1, Line h). I wrote about it here. I was quite surprised by how much noise this generated, journalists (who could be affected over this) have been discussing it on Twitter.
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Checking Your Work E-Mail on Virgin Media Residential Could Get You Cut Off
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Disabling Narrator in Windows 8
It is far, far too easy to hit Windows-Enter and turn on the Narrator, especially when you’ve got shortcuts defined in Visual Studio for Alt-Enter and Ctrl-Enter.
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Rain, Rain, Come Back…
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Running a Triathlon
Last weekend, Caius, Carole, Liam and I ran a Triathlon.
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Helvellyn Via Striding Edge
Google Maps Geocoding API v2
Google have “turned down” v2 of their Geocoding API as of the 9th of September. For “turned down”, read “turned off”, making some interesting breakages for sites that rely on this API. Information available here:
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