
Kindle! Better late than never!
I love a book, actually several books if I’m away for any length of time. You can get lost in a good book (much the same as I can get lost in secondhand bookshops!) so when my wife started hinting about the Amazon Kindle at Christmas I went looking…. We’re now a month after Christmas but it’s better late than never!
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What do you call….
Two web techies, a PR person, a radio presenter, an audio production engineer, a system analyst and programmer all in a bar together?
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Voice Recognition Software – or Not?
I’ve been looking at voice recognition software for the last few days – there’s only really one player out there and that’s Nuance with Dragon Naturally Speaking.
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Commenting Policy – DoFollow – It’s not all about you!
I haven’t posted in a while – I’ve simply been too busy, but I got one comment on my blog today that annoyed me! So I’m here for a rant!
I get a lot of comments on Skillett.com, an awful lot are filtered out without me even seeing them by WP-SpamFree:
WP-SpamFree has blocked 23,910 spam comments!
Things that get past that are still often identified as spam by WordPress and deleted… Then there’s the rest….
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Backup your Phone! Now!
That’s not a request, it’s an order!
Losing your phone is one thing, it’s probably insured and you’ll either get your phone back or a replacement, great – you have a working phone, but aren’t you forgetting something?
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Cameraman taking care of the Punters and Ronaldo!
I have a friend who’s a cameraman, his blog is always interesting but recently he posted some funny videos that really made me laugh…
First we’ve got the cameraman taking care of punters:
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To List or Not to List – Twitter is the Question!
Twitter introduced list functionality a while back, and I’ve used it a bit here and there (mainly so I can find the real life people I know on Twitter amongst the “noise”), but I wanted to start using them a little differently so did some research.
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What I'm Doing...
- Still feeling pretty rotten but determined to get at least a couple of things off this list today! 23 mins ago
- Not really looked properly at EC2 in a long time, but all @lgladdy 's tweets about it are pushing me in that direction again, any good tips? 1 hr ago
- Android why can't I create a repition of a calendar event every other week? I can do weekly, every xth of the month but not every other! 12 hrs ago
- Get a private beta invite for Connect.Me. It's your reputation card for the social web http://t.co/ZWV66HMM 13 hrs ago
- Waiting for a callback from the doctor, why can't they tweet me or do a Skype diagnosis? 1 day ago
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