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Entries from February 2005

Ze drem vil finali kum tru

February 25th, 2005 · 5 Comments

European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase plan for what will [...]

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Tags: General

Anna Kournikova Penthouse

February 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Richard Giles writes
?For 15 days I held the no.1 spot on Google for the term ‘Anna Kournikova Penthouse,’ the 3rd most popular search term. Obviously Google traffic is many times large that Overtures. Whilst that traffic was useless to me, imagine what a site selling Anna Kournikova posters could have done with my 40,000 plus [...]

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Tags: News

Eye Catching Headlines

February 16th, 2005 · No Comments

The Secret To Making People Like You
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Do You Make These Mistakes In English?
How I Improved My Memory In 24 Hours
Throw Away Your Oars
7 Steps To Freedom
Confessions Of A Disbarred Lawyer
How To Pay Zero Taxes

From http://blog.outer-court.com/pageboost/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robotii.co.uk%2F
I just saw www.robotii.co.uk.
(…)
It must have taken weeks to finalize the page. The page contains [...]

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Gifts

February 15th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I found this cool quote on the internet today at
http://surinderxx.blogspot.com/2005/02/special-gifts.html

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Tags: General · Play

Valentines day

February 14th, 2005 · No Comments

From Gmail
A Google approach to “V”-mail.
No, not voice-mail. Valentine’s Day mail. According to the Greeting Card Association, one billion valentine cards are sent each year. That’s a lot. Good thing we no longer give the large, hand-painted heart-shaped copperplate prints that they used to pass around during the 1800’s.
Still, that’s a lot of mail. [...]

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Asbestos

February 12th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I need some of that…

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Tags: General · News

Leaving Comments

February 11th, 2005 · 4 Comments

If you visit this site could you please leave a nice comment.
Thanks,
Pete.
Related PostsNew Plugins and UpgradesHow to leave a good comment, and lasting impression on someone’s siteGetting to comment on other people’s giraffes, like blog postsComments Working NowShort tips on how to annoy junk mail marketers

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Firefox Vulnerabilities

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

See here for http://justagirlintheworld.com/

And so it begins, indeed.
I think we’ll start to see more and more exploit vulnerability as these browsers gain more and more popularity. It will be interesting to see if FireFox is the tight browser choice that some die hard FF’ers have always claimed it to be.
Related PostsA List of Firefox Extensions [...]

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Tags: General

How to make firefox tabs smaller

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

How to make firefox tabs smaller… put the following in userchrome.css

@namespace url(”http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”); /* set default namespace to XUL */

/* Shrink tab titles by 10% */
.tabbrowser-tabs .tab-text {
font-size: 90%;
}

/* make inactive tabs hardly visible */
tab:not([selected="true"]) {
-moz-opacity: 0.5 !important;
}

tab
{
-moz-appearance: tab;
margin-top: 2px !important;
border-top: 2px [...]

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Open Source

February 7th, 2005 · No Comments

The following open source programs are those that I use on a regular basis
Open Office
£150 to £200 is a lot of money and why fork over the cash if you can get something that does the job just as well, can read and write MS word and excel files (.doc and .xls) and is free. [...]

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