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Where’s Google?

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I can’t log into gmail. Waaaaaa waaaaaa waaaaa!

Written by macdo

October 27th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

Posted in General, Google, Tech, Web 2.0

RFC - not only a request for comments!

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Robert S. commented on a two-year-old post of mine, about Radio Free Colorado. Now, as I’m pretty sure that none of youactually read comments left two years after the event, I thought I’d reprint it here :

Radio Free Colorado is back on the air since January 2007!

RFC sounds *better than ever* and has an excellent new Song Request feature, you can browse Radio Free Colorado’s entire music library and request the DJ to play any song you like.

Also, there is a 192 kbps MP3 channel on RFC which is streaming now. Wonderful sounds!

Radio Free Colorado - http://www.radiofreecolorado.net

So there you have it. Let me remind everybody that streams can be played in vlc (for Windows and Linux) and of course in Amarok (by the way, did you know that Amarok has its own page in Facebook?)

Written by macdo

February 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am

Posted in Breaking news, Tech, Web 2.0

Title? What title?

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  • For some time now, I’ve been looking (in my professional capacity) for a chess set supplier who doesn’t actually demand the payment of an arm and a leg for 32 pieces of injected plastic (and your first-born for an industrially printed vinyl ‘board’). I think I’ve found one. If I have, I’ll let you know. If you are a chess set supplier and want to do business with me, let me know in the comments!
  • Warehouses are complicated to build and furnish. This, in conjunction with a heavy workload, gastro-enteritis and the discovery of facebook (I know, only a few years late!) may explain the recent absence of posts here. So sue me.
  • Who does quite small (less than a hundred) runs of thermomoulded plastic parts, working from a model (and preferably in Europe)? Answers in comments, please. (Please note that 42 is not an accepted answer to this question.)
  • I rented a Renault Clio the other day, for a week. But when I got to the agency, they apologised and gave me a Ford S-Max. You probably don’t care - but hey! I’m telling everyone!
  • I’ve got a new phone, of the sort that would theoretically allow me to BoB - Blog on the Bus (TM). Don’t hold your breath for that… but the phone itself is pretty cool.
  • Christmas leave is coming up waaaaay too fast. When can I find the time to go christmas shopping?

Written by macdo

December 13th, 2007 at 10:48 am

Posted in Cars, Fun, General, Tech, Travail, Web 2.0

Overtaken

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When I created this blog back in 2005, I wrote a page about the game rules. One of the points I made was that “spammers should be twittered at”.

Is that prior art?

Written by macdo

October 18th, 2007 at 2:00 am

Posted in Fun, General, Web 2.0

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Go here.

Not sure exactly what category to put this in. Ah well.

Written by macdo

November 15th, 2006 at 12:12 am

Posted in Firefox, General, Microsoft, Short links, Tech, Web 2.0

The bestest browser

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http://ie7.com/

Written by macdo

October 12th, 2006 at 7:43 pm

Posted in Firefox, General, Short links, Tech, Web 2.0

Adios Writely

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Anybody going to www.writely.com from today will be directed to the new ‘Documents and Spreadsheets’ Google page.

<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="20061005;23045600" name="CREATED" /><meta content="20061011;342500" name="CHANGED" />Here’s the official announcement: <a href="http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/">http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p>Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Discuss.</p> </div> <div class="meta group"> <div class="signature"> <p>Written by macdo <span class="edit"></span></p> <p>October 11th, 2006 at 10:26 pm</p> </div> <div class="tags"> <p>Posted in <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=1" title="View all posts in General" rel="category">General</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=7" title="View all posts in Google" rel="category">Google</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=3" title="View all posts in Tech" rel="category">Tech</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=20" title="View all posts in Web 2.0" rel="category">Web 2.0</a></p> </div> </div> <h2 id="post-248"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=248" rel="bookmark">Spreadsheets online</a></h2> <p class="comments"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=248#comments">without comments</a></p> <div class="main"> <p><a href="http://macdo10.free.fr/wordpress/?p=177">http://macdo10.free.fr/wordpress/?p=177</a></p> <p>Reread that post, and then, in the comments, tell me <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/">how amazingly right I am</a>.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>(and I’ve already got my invite. hehe.)</p> </div> <div class="meta group"> <div class="signature"> <p>Written by macdo <span class="edit"></span></p> <p>June 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm</p> </div> <div class="tags"> <p>Posted in <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=1" title="View all posts in General" rel="category">General</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=7" title="View all posts in Google" rel="category">Google</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=3" title="View all posts in Tech" rel="category">Tech</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=20" title="View all posts in Web 2.0" rel="category">Web 2.0</a></p> </div> </div> <h2 id="post-234"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=234" rel="bookmark">Note this!</a></h2> <p class="comments"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=234#comments">with one comment</a></p> <div class="main"> <p>I said a few months ago that google disappointed me when they didn’t produce Linux apps at the same time as Windows apps (if, indeed, at all). Well, they have just brought out a new service, <a href="http://www.google.com/notebook">Google Notebook</a>, that says, and I quote: “Window or Linux (Mac OSX may crash).” Okay, so it’s a Firefox extension, but even so…<br /> As for the service itself, it looks quite good. I feel that it does actually fulfil a need (unlike pictures in a chat client…). The million-dollar question, however, is whether or not that need is general, or only a niche market, for people like me who often search for things like grammar points, where different webpages have different points, presentation and exercices. (I think that Yahoo had a service like that - no doubt m’learned friend over at <a href="http://www.insideyahoo.net">InsideYahoo.net</a> will be able to enlighten us).</p> <p>Interestingly enough - but no, I’ll post about that another time: tea is becoming essential!</p> </div> <div class="meta group"> <div class="signature"> <p>Written by macdo <span class="edit"></span></p> <p>May 16th, 2006 at 8:33 pm</p> </div> <div class="tags"> <p>Posted in <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=9" title="View all posts in Firefox" rel="category">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=1" title="View all posts in General" rel="category">General</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=7" title="View all posts in Google" rel="category">Google</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=25" title="View all posts in Linux" rel="category">Linux</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=3" title="View all posts in Tech" rel="category">Tech</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=20" title="View all posts in Web 2.0" rel="category">Web 2.0</a></p> </div> </div> <h2 id="post-228"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=228" rel="bookmark">Yellow maps</a></h2> <p class="comments"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?p=228#comments">without comments</a></p> <div class="main"> <p>So you want to see an arial photo of somewhere-in-France?<br /> Easy, I hear you cry. Just type maps.google.com into your browser, and you’re sorted!<br /> Well, yes - unless your address ends in anything except for a major town… in which case, you don’t get much zoom.<br /> Instead of Google, try www.pagesjaunes.fr It’s in French, but you can get wonderful photos! (scale of 1/800, when you zoom in all the way.)<br /> (Caveat: the address is not always too precise - my house seems to have crossed the street, for example…)</p> </div> <div class="meta group"> <div class="signature"> <p>Written by macdo <span class="edit"></span></p> <p>May 11th, 2006 at 1:46 am</p> </div> <div class="tags"> <p>Posted in <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=1" title="View all posts in General" rel="category">General</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=7" title="View all posts in Google" rel="category">Google</a>, <a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=20" title="View all posts in Web 2.0" rel="category">Web 2.0</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="navigation group"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?cat=20&paged=2">« Older Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div id="pages"> <h3>Pages</h3> <ul> <li class="page_item page-item-71"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?page_id=71" title="Disclaimer, legal stuff, and other info…">Disclaimer, legal stuff, and other info…</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-155"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?page_id=155" title="Photos Over The Sleeve">Photos Over The Sleeve</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-363"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?page_id=363" title="Scripts">Scripts</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-350"><a href="http://blog.ourcq.org/?page_id=350" title="Stats">Stats</a></li> </ul> </div> <h3>Search</h3> <p class="searchinfo">search site archives</p> <div id="search"> <div id="search_area"> <form id="searchform" method="get" action="/index.php"> <div> <input class="searchfield" type="text" name="s" id="s" value="" title="Enter keyword to search" /> <input class="submit" type="submit" value="search" title="Click to search archives" /> </div> </form> </div> </div> <h3>Blogroll</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/" title="Mary Beard, a Cambridge don, on, well, stuff.">A Don’s Life</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.guillaumeb.com" rel="friend met co-worker">a-Guillaume Belfiore’s Techblog</a></li> <li><a href="http://bugmenot.com/" title="Get rid of the free registrations…">BugMeNot.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/" title="A fellow expat - albeit one who’s a lot more well known than me!">Charles Bremner</a></li> <li><a href="http://dansdata.com/" title="An Oz take on technology">Dans Data</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stephaniemiller.com/declarationofrevocation.htm" title="Just for fun…">Declaration of Revocation</a></li> <li><a href="http://french-word-a-day.typepad.com/motdujour/">French Word-A-Day</a></li> <li><a href="http://macdo10.free.fr" title="back to the drawing board…">Home</a></li> <li><a href="http://london.metblogs.com/">Metroblogging London</a></li> <li><a href="http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/">Mr. Speaker</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.neenaw.co.uk/" title="Action from an ambulance dispatch room">NeeNaw</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.notquitegrownup.blogspot.com/" title="A teacher in training">Not Quite Grown Up</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/">Observer Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pubphilosopher.blogs.com/">Pub Philosopher</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pussdaboots.com">Pussdaboots</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.radiofreecolorado.net/" title="Great Music, great quality">Radio Free Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog" title="A blog from a London EMT - can be rather graphic. 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