I seem to attract static shocks more than a super-magnet attracts metal filings.
From touching the window or doorknob, to pushing the button on the machine that gives you your parking ticket, i feel like one of Pavlov’s dogs - anything metal is now dangerous and to be approached with extreme caution.
Here’s a bunch of articles [...]

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Am I the only one who gets some kind of deep down guilt whenever I decline joining some Facebook group invitations? Or even clicking the dreaded “Not Attending” button on a event invite? When you decline the invite, does the originator get alerted to this? My current strategy is to ignore until the event is [...]

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I get quite a lot of proposals in my inbox each week. A lot of them, especially the Powerpoint ones, are completely bloated in file size and average about 2MB. When I’m told by IT department to clean out my inbox, these are the first to go.
If you can’t tell me why you’re so special [...]

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Man, I can’t stand jargon!
Just got a proposal that contained the following paragraph in the covering email:
Focused marketing: This direct access yields focused marketing strategies that tie in synergistically with mainstream advertising campaigns and that enable measurable return on investment.
I’m not sure if “synergistically” is even a word, but if you can’t explain your [...]

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Google Earth Blog posted about some tools that have been developed to track storms using everybodies’ favourite 3d earth browser.
As seen below, Cape Town is about to be hit by a bit of a monster:

The Red Bull Big Wave Africa contest must surely be on high alert..
Do have a good evening.

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HELP / SOS / is there anybody out there!?
I’m busy learning some drupal, which seems like a great system. The problem is that whenever i update a page i have to re-refresh it. even if i change options on a admin page and click submit, the old admin page reloads.
So basically, i’m pressing F5 [...]

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Now here’s a project I’m happy to back.
Instead of copying some meaningless mambo-jambo piece of text like “B81IS59g” (which is difficult enough to work out as it is), why not help digitize scanned books one word at time?
More from recaptcha.net:
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each [...]

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The Google machine has released 2 really nice updates:
Google Analytics: face lift.

The free web analytics tool offered by Google, has a shiny new interface that makes me want to “do stats” all day long. Gone are all the 3d charts, and slightly confusing navigation options. Now it’s all big, flat, and easy to understand.
I [...]

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Great trip to Italy.
Here’s the pics. Taken on my favourite of favourite cameras the Lomo LCA. Digital is great for volume and ease. But film has a soft/warm charm to it. The way my little lomo frames pictures with its characteristic dark faded edges is, as a good friend would put it, “totally sweet“.
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Gino just informed me that my comments are not available. I can only see them when I’m logged in.
Anyone know the in’s and outs of Wordpress 2.1? I know enough to help me?
please drop me an email if you do - iarescott at gmail.
it works! all thanks to the ” ‘press ” doctor Dr. Roger [...]

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