Posts By: Liv

The Hard Drive Has Crashed :-)

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Brilliant article for those of us who had any client-facing / support tasks experience in the past: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25082/1141/ As David Williams points out in his article, if it’s inside the computer, then it’s gotta be called “hard drive” for the regular user — and it is the cause for Microsoft Word crashing 🙂 A bit […]

Sun To Be Acquired by Oracle

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Wow — that’s some news that I just read about today: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp?goback=.hom — Sun Microsystems is to be acquired by Oracle! Prepare for new model of licensing for Java — starting with Personal edition at £500 and ending up with Enterprise that will only run on Oracle 10g and cost around £500k! All you EJB […]

Blog Structure Update

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For those of you who haven’t noticed, I’ve changed the permalinks structure on this blog — as apparently “pretty” URL’s do affect the search ranking — so fingers crossed, you should see my blog now appearing everywhere 🙂

Here Come the Men in Black!

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I’ve just watched an amazing victory by Saracens this weekend where they took the game right from under London Wasps noses in the very last minutes of the game. After leading throughout the whole game 12-9 based on penalty kicks (well done, Glen Jackson! 😉 Wasps managed to score a try with about 3 minutes […]

Women Watch Too Much Cricket! :)

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I was just having a look at Microsoft’s tool for demographics prediction (http://adlab.microsoft.com/Demographics-Prediction/) and started getting curious about what is the split in between men and women when watching sport and here’s some interesting data that this tool predicts (Sky peeps you’d better listen out if you want to target your audience properly!): football: that […]

Why the House Music Gained Popularity

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Piece of genius from our buddy, Bruno, the gay Austrian fashion reporter brought to life by Sascha Baron Cohen; talking to the owner of a club, inquiring about the type of music played he finds out the club is playing mainly house music: “Now you see communism has been overthrown in many Eastern European countries, […]

How to Lead Your Own Country…

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This apparently has escaped my attention until now — a program on BBC about “How to start your own country” featuring Danny Wallace; like I said, it seems to be not so recent but I missed it at the time, thank God for Dave and the likes who are showing re-runs of it 🙂 (Well, […]