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Windows Live Session UK/1

Well what can I say I had a very nice time today at the Windows Live Session UK/1 in London, it was very interesting and great to see everybody there from different blog’s and tech sites like mess.be and neowin.net It was also great to see Fremont in action and to be told that there will be more sessions like

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What are alternatives to Google AdSense?

I’ve  just found a great article which as a whole list of alternatives to Google AdSense, here’s an extract from it: Google AdSense is the leader in web-based content-sensitive marketing. Webmasters place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages and Google AdSense serves advertisements based upon the content of the web page. There should be a Google AdSense skyscraper

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Windows Live Session UK/1 Tomorrow

Following my recent post here about Msn inviting me to the Windows Live Session UK/1, I can now tell you that theres not long at all until it starts, less than 24 hours to be exact! A few names of people going are: Chris Jon T Robert Gale (A Welsh View) Seb aka Zero1 (mess.be admin) France has already had

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Hundreds of Cascading Style Sheet Articles

This site might come in useful for some of you I know! SkimCSS is web service that provides visitors with a huge collection of content all related to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Our goal is simple, to provide a clean interface and navigation for users to find what they want quickly. Most programming resource websites are cluttered, filled with popups,

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Scientists find ‘smallest fish’

What a cool little fish! Researchers have found the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Individuals of the Paedocypris genus can be just 7.9mm long at maturity, scientists write in a journal published by the UK’s Royal Society. But they warn long-term prospects for the fish are poor, because of rapid

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Laughter paves the way for romance

 Studies suggest humour signals big brain and good partner-potential. If love is blind, then maybe humour is the attention-grabber. That’s the conclusion of two recent studies that confirm a long-standing stereotype of flirting: that women like joky men, while men like women who laugh at their jokes. The idea that funny people are attractive may seem obvious. But there have

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Dead whale is examined by experts

I can’t believe I was up London yesterday and missed the whale, though what can I say, I’m very sad to hear it died, I really do love animals, and it’s a real shame when they die like this! 🙁 An expert is carrying out a post-mortem examination on a whale which died after becoming stranded in the River Thames. Despite a

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Windows Blackcomb Renamed to Windows Codename Vienna

 Microsoft has now changed the Codename of Windows Blackcomb to Windows Codename Vienna, what do you think of this name change, is it better or worse or don’t you care? Microsoft has changed the code-name for the next version of Windows after Vista from “Blackcomb” to “Vienna,” according to company evangelist and blogger Robert Scoble. Blackcomb was named back in