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It’s my data

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The recent release of Photoshop Express has got me thinking about the growing trend of web sites allowing users to upload their own content. Just think about any site like flickr, Facebook, etc that allow you to upload…

The 3 types of city developers

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Despite the impending doom and gloom of a city recession (or just a few months of uncertainty, depending on your point of view), the recruitment agents are out in force at the moment. Most people I’ve spoken to…

history meme

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imac:~ simon$ history | awk ‘{a[$2] }END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
95 cd
79 svn
55 ant
41 ls
30 ./startup.sh
27 vi
27 ./shutdown.sh
23 ssh
13 ftp
11 cat

Anybody want to guess what the…

Pebble 2.3 released

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The Pebble 2.3 release is available to download from SourceForge and includes quite a few small new features and fixes, some of which I’ve written about before. Here’s the full list.

Added a “friendly” URL for the…

Living with the Time Capsule

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I’ve had my 500GB Time Capsule for almost a couple of months now and I thought that I’d post my thoughts, particularly since I just unplugged it as a backup device. Here’s why.

It’s slow : I have a 802.11g n…