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Geek rapture

Ria — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:25:57 +0000

Honestly, what did nerdy geeks do before browser extensions and apps?

Geek rapture with new font ID extension

Ah yes, trainspotting.

Truly this is the time of geek rapture.

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End of the Non-aligned Movement

Ria — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:24:36 +0000

First HDR photo using a tripod, which means no more caffeine-induced wobbly hands and blurred photo merging.

What do you think?

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She sells shoe sales

Ria — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:07:36 +0000

She sells shoe sales This was posted on Google+…

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Pulling a sickie

Ria — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:57:33 +0000

Actually I am ill, really ill, really. It’s a killer cold, already shared by everyone else in my inner circle, now reaching me, the most disease-resistant member.

It’s also out of consideration for my colleagues that I’m staying home — no one would appreciate my sputum-rattling cough and explosive, spluttering sneezes.

Which means I find

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Night and Day

A very Dutch death

Ria — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:38:48 +0000

The new year had barely begun when I learned of the death of a colleague who worked in the office opposite mine. A very Dutch death, he was out cycling on New Year’s Eve, probably going home to celebrate with his wife and four kids, when he had a heart attack and ended up in

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The Magic Roundabout

Ria — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:21:41 +0000

Looking to update my TomTom maps on the cheap, I came across The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK.

Holy cow! Where do you begin?

The Magic Roundabout, Swindon, Swindon SN1 2, United Kingdom – Google Maps View maps and find local businesses on the web. This was posted on Google+…

Feuilles volantes

Ria — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:45:45 +0000

While waiting in the basement for the washing machine to finish, I picked up a book from the open boxes stacked under the stairs, the remainder of our unpacking from … almost two years ago *gulp*. The book was a well foxed paperback of Victor Hugo’s Choses vues, a sort of memoir of major and

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Once more unto the intocht, dear friends

Ria — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:41:56 +0000

All of the Netherlands turned out yesterday to welcome the return of a pensionado (retiree) from Spain — Sinterklaas! And his merry band of pranksters, the Zwaartepieten (Black Peters), whose political incorrectness is tempered by the addition of fantasy Piets, such as the Elvis Piet.

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Define nitpicky

Ria — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:46:36 +0000

Of all the Jobs anecdotes doing the rounds from Isaacson’s biography, this one stuck in my mind:

“At one point, the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated,” Isaacson writes:

Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused

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A slew of …

Ria — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:45:07 +0000

In a CNN Money article yesterday about the Facebook vs Google+ rivalry, my editor’s antennae started twitching when I read

“But defensive moves are not Zuckerberg’s style, and in September, at the company’s F8 developers event, he unleashed a sea of new features that alter the current service radically.”

“A sea of features”?

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