Tim Worstall

This one is actually reasonably funny:
‘If you and your friends all buy one, will they sync up?’

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Yes, a recommendation, not an ad.
Try out GoThisPlace.
A database of all (or nearly all, 11,000 in total) the attractions in the UK with a natural language search engine on hte front end.
“Castles near Bath” gives me most of the ones I remember: although not Sham Castle but perhaps that’s fair enough, as it’s a wall [...]

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It’s impossible to keep your personal information private on a social networking site. We need stronger privacy protections
It’s entirely possible to keep your information private. Don’t join.
Dim bulb.

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There has to be an easy way of moving a file of email addresses from one gmail account to another.
There must be.
Using “export” in gmail (with Firefox) leads to the creation of “google.csv” which is terribly exciting but no damn use as the computer then says that file does not exist. No, you (or perhaps [...]

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Oh dear, Our Willy has some ideas about banks and bonuses.
Now as the global economy stabilises and the IMF lifts its growth forecasts for 2010, conservative voices are calling for a so-called exit strategy – freezing the stimulus and beginning a programme of retrenchment to allow the private sector to resume its starring role and [...]

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D’ye think it might? The day after his death? The two phrases he would have desperately hoped would not be his epitaph?

1.
ted kennedy

2.
mary jo kopechne

3.
chappaquiddick

4.
mass lottery

5.
ronnie spector

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1.
ted kennedy

2.
edward kennedy

3.
senator kennedy

4.
chappaquiddick

5.
mary jo kopechne

Had to happen, eh?

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Twitter is fun and all, but the now public internal discussion about justifying the investment to the venture capitalists shows that yes, at some point in her life, every big-titted fat girl needs to be told flat out that she’s nothing more than a big-titted fat girl.

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A bunch of guys got together and made “worst failure ever” into a Google Bomb which then pointed to Barack Obama’s page at the White House.
OK, fun….then a couple of guys (one of them me, with this “worst failure ever” piece describing it all) wrote web pieces describing what had been done.
Which, as I write, [...]

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Hmm, this is the response I got to the following question:
Is  a  jersey  bank  account  considered  to  be  a  UK  acc
customer  message:  Additional  Information:  ’If  I  open  a  UK  paypal  account,
can  I  link  that  to  a  Jersey  bank  account?’
Response:
I do apologise but you may not be able to do it. UK PayPal account must
also have [...]

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OK, so I’m experimenting on a new site.
I need to see where my traffic is coming from, so obviously I need a stats package. The one on the site is pretty pants and will be for the next few months.
I cannot add Sitemeter or the like to the site as a whole (and the free [...]

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I may or may not be taking part in a new little project soon. However, before I do so I just want to try and get a sense of the size of the market.
I’ve seen that Google’s total search volume (US only) appears to be 10 billion a month.
Yahoo’s volume is 10% of that, or [...]

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Via Martin Stabe, this:
Newspaper Licensing Agency to regulate web hyperlinks
Eh?

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Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer.
European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.
Err, how?

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I was trying to remember what the word for a virus that starts in animals but then becomes infectious to humans is.
So I searched for "zoonovirus" which is what I thought the word was.
Apparently not, for Google reports no entries at all for the neologism.
Until this one of course.

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The computers in the office have just been upgraded, cleaned up and generally supported. Just in passing, the tech said that the EU Parliament will not allow anyone on the network to run Windows Vista. Everyone’s on XP.
Not exactly a vote of confidence in the latest iteration of Wndows, eh?

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In a major report to be released next week a new agency will be set up to look at how the issue of online "piracy" should be tackled.
One proposal being studied is imposing a universal levy on broadband bills to compensate film and music companies for their losses from illegal downloads. Most broadband packages cost [...]

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From PA:

The head of a child sex abuse police unit hit out today at having to spend thousands of pounds on buying valuable information from internet firms.
According to the BBC, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 on gathering internet data since it was founded in 2006.
The sum, which [...]

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Just one in 20 songs is downloaded legally from the internet

I would actually believe that of those legally available for download only one in twenty ever are actually downloaded. But that’s not quite what they mean…rather, only one in twenty of songs downloaded are done so legally.

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Hmm. Just got a spam email:

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