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Snow Scene

Snow Scene

Originally uploaded by justjimothy

Stitched panorama from outside my flat.

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4D Launches Chatbox Mobile

LONDON, November 5 PRNewswire
UK Social Media Company Launches Mobile Portal and M-Store for Leading Chat Brand
4D Interactive, the UK social media company, has today announced the launch of a mobile web portal for Chatbox, its interactive chat and dating TV channel on Sky channel 877.
Chatbox Mobile, which is free for women users, [...]

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Movember

My old work pals are taking part in Movember which is a great campaign for increasing awareness of prostate cancer.
Check out their progress and sponser them here.

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Asp echo()

This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me.
Php coders should understand this one.
sub echo(input)
response.write(replace(input,”‘”,”"”"))
end sub
The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output html.
Enjoy

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IMO Download – Embedded player test

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

Now, I love my iPhone and generally hate Sony Ericsson but there is somthing I find quite sexy about the new X1. Flashy websites can only go so far, I guess we will just have to wait a few days yet to find out.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/

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Tortoise SVN Extension for Dreamweaver

I use this loads but can never seem to find it on the internet. It allows you to commit and update direct from the Dreamweaver context menu. The old URL it was hosted at (nearlygeek.com) is no more.
You do need to have Tortoise SVN installed and it only seems to work with Windows.
Enjoy
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Track used in Living TV “Ibiza” viral

I forgot all about this, but stumbled across it again yesterday. Its a trance track I made a while back with a friend Dan which got picked up and used in a Living TV (Virgin Media) video. They played with the filtering a little to much for my liking but I’m still chuffed nonetheless.
The track is [...]

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OSX Terminal / Command Colouring

Essential tip for OSX users. Not just pretty on the eyes but bloody useful.
Just add the following lines to ~/.bash_profile
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/02/color-your-os-x-command-prompt/

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Chrome First Impressions

A few us have been using Chrome here in the office today a and first impressions are generally good.
I’m not going to run down the whole feature list, only what was obvious to me right away.

Pages render at lightening speed, it feels faster than FireFox.
Element inspector – a firebug style debug tool built in.
Omnibox – makes [...]

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