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  • Talking of Google.

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    Our kids deserve better than a Googleâ„¢ future

  • Headlines

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    here are some of today’s from the Beeb: “Royle wants to keep striker Bent” “Students not robots, says Charles” The first is, you will have guessed, a football story, the second clearly illustrates the benefits to be derived from a public school education.

  • A Levels are not what they were…

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    My kind of A level “An exam board has agreed to include boxing on the list of sports that can be studied for its A-level in PE.”

  • Spam® (a canned meat made largely from pork)

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    The objective sought in placing links in Blog comments is normally to raise the “PageRank®” of a site’s home page (part of the way Google ranks web pages) so that they get more visitors. Google will blacklist sites it finds trying to monkey with its results in this way. “If you believe that another site…

  • A Word A Year

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    The spirit of the times, or should that be Zeitgeist? 1904 hip 1905 whizzo 1906 teddy bear 1907 egghead 1908 realpolitik 1909 tiddly-om-pom-pom 1910 sacred cow 1911 gene 1912 blues 1913 celeb 1914 cheerio 1915 civvy street 1916 U-boat 1917 tailspin 1918 ceasefire 1919 ad-lib 1920 demob 1921 pop 1922 wizard 1923 hem-line 1924 lumpenproletariat…

  • New Toys

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    I have found a couple of rather neat new toys, which I would like to share with you. Google has just launched Froogle UK which is a shopping comparison site, very much like Dealtime. Even better, you can now Google search your own hard drive, by installing Google Desktop – I have installed it today…

  • And on a lighter note

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    I came across this video about the future of messaging (funny). Also, how do Ikea come up with the names of their products? What was going through the brain of the person who came up with this Oh yeah, in case you hadn’t guessed, everyone has gone away and left me all on my own…

  • Would you buy a used submarine from this man?

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    Ssh, keep it quiet, mate. If you have been following the press you will probably have read how this diamond geezer recently managed to shift a job lot of low mileage subs to a bunch of Canadians. Well, they come over here with their fat wallets, like it grows on trees, innit. All genuine, low…

  • Swedish Tax

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    All the best things are taxed, beer, fags…… I am wondering how this will be charged? Flat rate or sliding scale? Still, either way, hardly the End Of The World, is it?

  • Art

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    Jax says, I’ve got to blog something from this morning’s ICT for under 2’s session. So here is a dog.