Published on December 31st, 2008
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Having just acquired jEN’s DSLR camera hand-me-down, I am still to embrace getting out and taking some shots just for the sake of it. A quick stroll to post a letter yesterday evening, turned into a mini photo expedition, much of which took place in our tiny garden.
You can see my efforts here, and jEN’s via her blog.
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Photograph by © Neil Dixon 2008. All rights reserved.
December 30th, 2008
Ever in search of the perfect GTD (Getting Things Done) solution, I have used pretty much everything that is available and landed firmly with Cultured Code’s Things.
Today came the very pleasing announcement it will be released as Version 1.0 next week.
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This week, podcast hosting and publishing service Podango anounced they are about to shut down.
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December 17th, 2008
The Stage, the print and online magazine covering every aspect of the arts and entertainment industry, chose to highlight Table Rappers - Persistent Spirit within their Turn off the TV special: Pick of the podcasts article.
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December 14th, 2008
Geek gamer alert! I have always thought the Playstation controller design to be the most usable and comfortable of its kind and was delighted to see the Playstation 3 retained the same. But it has one important flaw.
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The recent release of Google’s Searchwiki offering the ability for individuals with a Google account to directly manipulate their personal search results for a particular term, created much speculation as to whether (or when) Google might start using such data outside the realm of the individual searcher. We now seem to be a step closer to confirmation of Searchwiki data influencing SERPs.
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