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Rupert Murdoch vs Google.

I've been following the story that's appeared recently where Murdoch is saying that he will effectively use robots.txt to stop Google from crawling any of hi...

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Making web pages more readable.

This is pure gold. Readability. Better than ad-block, better than click to flash. If you find a page that's worth reading, add the bookmarklet from Readabili...

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Notes for installing Solaris 10

These notes won't be of too much use to anyone but me, I'm putting them here so that I can refer to them later on when I need to... Install a minimal system....

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Google Knows All

At least Google knows quite a hell of a lot of stuff about YOU . Log in at the following URL and you'll be able to see just how much Google has learned about...

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LOLCODE

This code snippet below is a Hello World program written in LOLCODE. HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!" KTHXBYE For something slightly more advanced, he...

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They're Real

You thought Space Invaders were simple, low-res cute faces? Well, it turns out that those iconic sprites were just their shadows... "They're Real" - Gaming,...

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Flash on the iPhone

I don't think so. While this is all over the internets, I wanted to preserve a copy of my own... Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on the iPhone give...

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Collective Nouns

Ever wondered what some of the more esoteric collective nouns might be? Need to refer to a group of spectres, demons, elves, humans, robots or just about any...

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