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Five Things Bing Does Better than Google

Five Things Bing Does Better than Google

MS have, at last, come up with what appears to be a competent rival to Google. Here’s five ways in which it beats Google.

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Crazy European Sports To Try This Summer

Crazy European Sports To Try This Summer

Europeans are considered to be the best educated, most sophisticated people on the planet. They also like diving into bogs, throwing tomatoes at one another, and chasing cheese.

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mySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP

mySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP

Ever needed to migrate a database to a new server or website (especially with WordPress and other PHP applications) and been stuck because when you do a search and replace some of the data seems to get corrupted?

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Pure. Comedy. Gold. Jozin z Bazin

Posted on 20 May, 2009 by Dave

This is a glorious song about the Swamp Man Jozin… Ropey English subtitles below. It’s well worth watching throughout. Well, to me it is…

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Boo to MPs! Boo to Presenters!

Posted on 12 May, 2009 by Dave
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MPs are getting it in the neck as a result of some of their more wild expenses claims. Lord Foulkes got very uppity.

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Nice

Posted on 10 May, 2009 by Dave
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Nice is one of the playgrounds of the French Riviera - but it can look cold in Winter. Still a damn sight warmer than Liverpool, however…

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Vegetarians Are Plain Filthy

Posted on 10 May, 2009 by Dave
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It never even occurred to me what Tofu really meant.  Now I do!  Storm in a teacup, but amused me nonetheless:
Popped into the Campaign for Thinking, for obvious reasons.
Thanks to Alison Classe who listed this on Cix.

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Slow Posting Performance in WordPress 2.7

Posted on 5 May, 2009 by Dave
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An interesting problem today - WordPress posting on this site was sloooooow.  Some other back-end tasks were also incredibly slow.
Adding a post or page would take about 30 to 60 seconds.  Unacceptable.  I did the usual job of deactivating plugins, and even resorted to a different theme for a few minutes but no, it was [...]

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Handy Tip for CSS Reloading

Posted on 5 May, 2009 by Dave
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CSS not refreshing in the browser can be a pain - Mark Jaquith has come up with an elegant solution to this for WordPress coders.

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Broadcom B57nd60x 10.10.0.0 performance problems (Dell XPS especially)

Posted on 18 April, 2009 by Dave
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CPU spikes were making my laptop less fun to use - a nice online guide and a quick bit of sleuthing with MS’s sysinternals tools and I soon had the answer. The laptop is now faster, quieter and has better battery life.

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