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N, nolonger just a letter

Posted on 17 November 2006 by Leefe

Having a bit of a read/edit of wikipedia today and found N. More than just a letter, ‘N’ is a Load Runner esk game written in Flash. With 3 keys you control a ninja, running, jumping and climbing your way … Continue reading →

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Google gobble and domains are flushed down utube

Posted on 16 November 2006 by Leefe

Articles of interest about Google buying YouTube. The lawsuits expected. And the problems it has caused the holder of a similar domain, utube.com. Articles: Google hedges against YouTube lawsuits (SMH, 16 Nov 2006) Policeman’s YouTube email goes to utube (SMH, … Continue reading →

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A shower rose by any other name

Posted on 19 October 2006 by Leefe

Had the head fall off my shower today. How useful do you think the internet would be for finding the cost of a replacement? Not very. I tried looking up prices on Hardware retailers web sites. No prices, not even … Continue reading →

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Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk email?

Posted on 17 October 2006 by Leefe

Hormel Foods, the producer of the canned pork product Spam is trying to stop the dilution of its product name. It doesn’t mind too much that “spam” has become a colloquial term referring to junk email. What it objects to … Continue reading →

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web sites as graphs

Posted on 6 October 2006 by Leefe

Do you ever wonder what a computer thinks of your web site? How does it perceive the relationship between tags? Probably not the sort of thing you do every day. I found a Java Applet online that creates coloured graphs … Continue reading →

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Incase or In Case ?

Posted on 28 August 2006 by Leefe

I have seen a number of people write incase when they really mean in case. What’s the difference? Incase refers to being enclosed within. Like “Incase that penguin in ice”. Also spelt encase. Where as in case refers to doing … Continue reading →

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What gets you motivated?

Posted on 13 August 2006 by Leefe

Have you seen those motivational posters that have an image, followed by one word or a short phrase, and then a one line description? Well I found this interesting gallery of motivational posters with an RPG theme. RPG Motivational Posters … Continue reading →

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Ninja vs Pirate, the Yin and Yang

Posted on 12 August 2006 by Leefe

I was thinking about the Ninja vs Pirate thing. Sort of like the Yin and Yang. Two powerful forces that need to balance for the universe to be in harmony. I have started to draw an image along these lines. … Continue reading →

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74000 Suspended .EU domains

Posted on 24 July 2006 by Leefe

The non proffit organisation that manages .EU domains, EUEid, has suspended 74000 of them. EURid beleives that 3 companies “are acting as a front for a number of registrars“. And that the registrars are warehousing the domains in breach of … Continue reading →

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Human edited directories

Posted on 22 July 2006 by Leefe

Recently I have been reading up on human edited directories. How they work, are they any good and can they be used to improve your ranking in search engines? Search engines use spiders and bots to index the web. These … Continue reading →

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