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My Twitter Olympics
I wasn’t particularly excited about the Olympics. It seemed so London-centric and the insane concessions to sponsors pretty much disgusted me. While I am a fan of a fair few sports the Olympics has never really been something I engaged with so I fully expected to give it a bit of a wide berth and…
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Three of a kind
Three things I came across this week and found interesting enough to share ๐ Guess – there are services like BuiltWith and extensions like Chrome Sniffer that will tell you the frameworks, libraries etc that make up a website but Guess is particularly focused on identifying what, if any, content management system is publishing the…
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‘Harder, opaquer, slower’
OK I’m less than convinced that ‘opaquer’ is really a word but you get the point ๐ When you visit the latest iteration of GOVUK one of the first things you see is the strapline ‘Simpler, clearer, faster’. I like it. Alot. It nicely sums up what GDS are trying to achieve and just generally…
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Nexus nirvana? Not quite!
So after all my tribulations with Google over my Nexus7 a replacement arrived at 7.30am Friday morning. Luckily I was just heading out to work so was able to sign for it myself this time rather than risk the TNT neighbour lottery! After a quick check to make sure this one worked (yay!) I plugged…
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Nexus7 nightmare
I ordered my Nexus7 within minutes of them being available in the UK and was quite publicly counting the days til it showed up. I love a gadget and I’ve held off replacing my iPad v1 as I was keen to rely less on Apple for my toys and I liked the look of the…