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First BritBlog BlogMeet

Ok so today I had the pleasure of attending the first BritBlog BlogMeet in The Marquess of Anglesey pub in covent garden in London. I arrived there at just after 4pm and couldn’t see anybody who looked like they were waiting for anybody else from BritBlog so I decided to order myself a pint of fosters and sit down on a

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First BritBlog BlogMeet Tomorrow!

Dont forget the first BritBlog BlogMeet ever is tomorrow (sunday at 4pm) We will me meeting up in The Marquess of Anglesey pub in Convert Garden in London, if any of you are from London or the UK for that matter and would like to come, your more than welcome to! 🙂 Here are the full details: The Marquess of Anglesey 39

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Free ASP.NET Hosting Trial

Do you need Free ASP.NET Hosting for your Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition package or maybe for your beta copy of Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer? If so then try VWDHosting.net which lets you sign up to a Free ASP.NET Hosting Trial so you can start testing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0 out straight away by

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Gtalkr instant messaging client is no more!

The Gtalkr instant messaging client is no more as yesterday the founders, Wes Carr and Dudley Carr who are brothers, shutdown Gtalkr to pursue new projects as Google employees. Thank you for your interest in Gtalkr. Unfortunately, the Gtalkr instant messaging client is no longer available. The Gtalkr website has been taken down while we pursue new projects as Google employees.

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David Blaines Drowned Alive Video

As you probably already know David Blaine has recently attempted to hold his breath for 9 minutes under water while trying to escape from chains, all this after already being submerged in water for 7 days in a glass sphere, also know to some as a human fish bowl! Well I’m sure a lot of you didn’t manage to catch

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Last American Titanic Survivor Dies at the age of 99

Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has now died at the age of 99, Asplund was the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking so with her passing away many memories from that night will be taken with her as she never really spoke much to the public about the sinking.Via:

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The plan for the first Britblog Blogmeet

Following up on Mark Sweeting’s recent post about a Britblog blogmeet where he asked us what date and location would be good, we now have an official date and location, that being Sunday the 21st of May probably at The Marquess of Anglesey near Covent Garden. Well we’ve settled on Sunday, 21st of May for the blogmeet. I’ll try and

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Will Blahblahbox be the next big social networking site?

I haven’t blogged about any social networking sites for quite a while now, well I guess except Ziki which I finally blogged about not long ago after I was testing it for a month, and if you haven’t tried Ziki yet I recommend you do because it’s pretty cool. Anyway as I was saying, I haven’t blogged about any social

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Net Neutrality Video

Check this Net Neutrality Video out; its a little video that explains why discrimination on the Internet is a problem and will continue to be as long as net neutrality rules are not enforced, those of you who understand nothing or very little about net neutrality should understand this very well as it’s been made as straight-forward as possible. Thanks