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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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by Keiron on January 18th, 2011 | Technology | 6 Comments » |
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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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by Keiron on November 4th, 2010 | Personal Diary | No Comments » |
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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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by Keiron on September 20th, 2010 | General | 1 Comment » |

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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by Keiron on August 12th, 2010 | Quick Posts | 4 Comments » |
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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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by Keiron on July 2nd, 2010 | Mobile Phones | 5 Comments » |

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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by Keiron on June 11th, 2010 | Quick Posts | 2 Comments » |

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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by Keiron on June 10th, 2010 | Blogging & Communities | No Comments » |

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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