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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Askimet was down which explains recent spam posts!

So according to the Askimet Blog, Askimet the wordpress spam stopper was down, guess that explains why I was receiving lots of spam comments on my blog, glad the problems fixed now though. The stats code introduced yesterday had a bug which only triggered about 24 hours after it had launched. It kicked in for different blogs at different times,

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50 Common Interview Questions & Answers

Just saw a post by Rob on a Welsh View that points to a post by Bhuvana which contains a list of 50 common interview questions and explains in short how to answer each of them. It’s a good read and well worth checking out. 1. Tell me about yourself: The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a short statement prepared

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Tom Reynolds a BritBlog Member appears on BBC News Website

I was just this minute on the BBC News website when I read the following headline title “Emergency calls – Drunks, blood and hoaxes. The view from inside the ambulance” which reminded me of a so called Tom Reynolds a blogger I meet at the First BritBlog BlogMeetup in London so I clicked the article link to see what it was all about and wow

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Dr. Azzam Tamimi believes U.K. terror plot was a hoax

As fears rise on both sides of the Atlantic after terror threats, Dr. Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought and senior member of the Muslim Association of Britain says the U.K. terror plot was all a big hoax. I don’t believe him but hey why don’t you watch the video for yourself and decide for yourself if you

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Nineteen of 24 people have had their UK assets frozen

Following yesterdays breaking news of the Arrests of 24 people under the Terrorism Act who were found to be in connection with an alleged plot to blow transatlantic flights out of the sky from the UK to the US. Nineteen of those arrested have had their assets frozen under powers granted by the United Nations to tackle the financing of terrorism in the wake

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Come and join me at the second Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux

The Date and Location for the Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux (No.2) has now been confimed by Roger, so I hope to see some of you there, let me know if you would like to come, the details are as follows: When: Monday, 11 September 2006 PM 07:30 to PM 11:00 BST Where: All bar one 36-38 Dean Street, Soho London, United

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An Instant Message chat with nataLie the Messenger Bot!

Don’t you just love messing with people who think they can scam you into entering your credit card details onto an unsecure website? Well I for one have done and it’s great to see what they say once you tell them you know they are trying to scam you and that you knew that from the start. Well it happened

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Introduction to 90 Online File Storage Services

Theres a list of 90 Online File Storage Services over at LifeHack that seems to have been spreading around the web a lot for the past few days now, that it just had to be posted here, but not because I want to join the people posting it, well ok maybe I do, but it would be better to say that I

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Flaming Dr. Pepper recipe

Has anybody ever had a Flaming Dr. Pepper alcoholic cocktail shot before? Well if not and you’re legal drinking age, I would highly consider trying one because though they contain no Dr. Pepper what so ever I can honestly tell you that they taste exactly like Dr. Pepper, which is so weird. Here’s how to make a Flaming Dr. Pepper: