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13/07/10
Today's Word of the Day is "minify" which is, to my surprise, a real word - in American English at least - not one made up by programmers. In general terms it means to make small or smaller but in computer terms it has a more specific meaning: to reduce the size of source to make it load, parse and execute faster. read more ...
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29/03/10
I was asked by Acer to fill in an online survey about my netbook. It all went fine until I got to this question: read more ...
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28/12/09
As the year draws to a close Beth's been working on her web pages here and that got me looking at mine. ... read more ...
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09/12/08
Sitting on the loo yesterday reading the small ads in the last Private Eye I spotted this in the "Eye to Eye" section: read more ...
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29/11/08
We popped into Tesco today after lunch to get some tissues (my nose is running like a tap at the moment) and some biscuits... read more ...
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03/11/08
Our parish church in Milton is All Saints'. It's a nice little church, very old, bits of it are 13th century... read more ...
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26/10/08
Hobson Street in Cambridge is closed at the moment for emergency repairs after a sewer collapse. However the goods news is ... read more ...
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15/09/08
Over on virginmedia.feedback I asked if they could fix a missing apostrophe. This is one of the replies I got: read more ...
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12/09/08
If you try to sign in to Virgin Media's ebilling with cookies disabled you get a popup saying you need cookies enabled in order to do this ... read more ...
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07/02/04
What little spam that manages to get through our mail filters often has a text/plain part which is just random words, ... read more ...
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