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Entries Tagged as 'Significant Figures'

A Script to Find UK Telephone Numbers

December 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Even with CallerID there are often times when you don’t recognize a phone number. And, at this time of year, the phone never seems to stop ringing. Searching on Google for a number often brings up a web page that…

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Tracing Fast-moving Worms

December 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Trojan horse

Trojans that steal your bank details and botnets that zombify computers have taken the place of fast-spreading worms in the popular headlines. It’s been a while since we had a global infestation on the scale of MyDoom, Sobig, or ILOVEYOU.…

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Tech Ties and Feeling Loved

November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tech ties

Just in case you were wondering, no I haven’t switched over to fashion and style tips. Which is just as well if you take a close look at my tie collection! No, today I’m talking about the ties that bind…

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Copyright Abuse

November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Mock creative commons logo

Most of the issues surrounding copyright are related to what bloggers and webmasters can and cannot reproduce on their own sites, but, open access aside, what about corporate copyright abuse. In this guest blog post Peter Lewis of the Open…

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Kindle UK

November 24th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Amazon Kindle

You’ve obviously been dwelling in a parallel universe if you haven’t heard of Amazon’s electronic book device, known as Kindle. Find out more about the device on the amazon.com site or Google the blogosphere for reviews and critiques. In case…

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