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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, […]

Job Hunting and Free Entertainment

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As you might have been aware I have started looking for a job (well, only just really 🙂 Now, that turned out to be a brilliant move in terms of brighting up my day! Because, damn, as much as I enjoy my late rising during the day (ah, how good it feels to get out […]

Snow in London

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I’m sure we’ve all “enjoyed” this, with TfL going to a halt and no traffic going through Central London, but for the record, that’s what it looked like the evening before the day when the snow has literally frozen London.

Freecycling

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I’m sure you’ve all heard of freecycling — and if not, have a look at their website: http://www.freecycle.org. Very simple idea: you have something you don’t need anymore, rather than chucking it away, you place a free ad on this website and someone will hopefully be interested, get in touch and pick it up; you […]

Playing Music on Mobile Phones

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Maybe it’s just me who’s been unlucky lately with the MP3 players and mobiles I acquired lately but it seems to be an intentional incompatibility in between those still! In brief — a couple of years ago I had a Sony Ericsson mobile and what I did like about it is that it had a […]

A Big Space in between Firefox and Internet Explorer

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For those of you who tried to put together a “flatten” function cross browser to eliminate consecutive spaces and/or trim some text that is retrieved from the HTML page itself, you might have noticed that a simple regex of the kind /\s+/gm is simply not enough and occasionally Internet Explorer would still return a string […]