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Spotify on Ubuntu Linux

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Spotify on Ubuntu LinuxI'm working this weekend. Normally when I work a weekend shift, I bring in my laptop, head on over to last.fm and start listening. Not this weekend.

I was so impressed with Spotify last weekend that I've followed the simple Spotify under Wine instructions to see if I could get it working on Linux and what do you know, it works…

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The Fabled Optimus Maximus Keyboard

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The Fabled Optimus Maximus KeyboardFeeling particularly flush with the cash? Love me long time? Think I'm just a nice all round kind of guy? Well then feel free to show your appreciation by buying me one of these babies...

If you're impressed and want to send one my way, they're for sale at ThinkGeek for the tiny sum of $1589.99.

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Now Running Wordpress 2.5 RC2

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colinseymour.co.uk is now running on Wordpress 2.5 RC2. Hopefully this will iron out some of the niggles I encountered with RC1. If you're tempted to upgrade, check out the screencast showing some of the cool new features.

Update: Upgraded to the official Wordpress 2.5 release now.

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Interesting Links for 5 Mar 08 - 9 Mar 08

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Interesting links for 5 Mar 08 - 9 Mar 08:

• Records tumble in Proteas' win - Ooo, that's got to have hurt Bangladesh. They were savaged by South Africa
• Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV - Looks promising if it turns out to be a viable option for the future.
• Low-tech Magazine: A world without trucks - Some Western…

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Interesting Links for 19 Feb 08 - 28 Feb 08

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Interesting links for 19 Feb 08 - 28 Feb 08:

• Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - A great introductory tutorial on Solaris 10's "Service Management Facility" (SMF).
• PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities - So Chip And PIN is not quite a secure as the banks would have you believe, and something as simple as not trying to save a …

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Bacn - A New Tech Buzz Word

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Bacn - this is a new tech buzz word I'm sure will slowly be making it's way into everyday conversation, just like spam did many many years ago.

Bacn, pronounced "bacon", is all the low priority email alerts you receive that aren’t spam, but aren’t exactly personal either. It's the type of email you've actually requested, but still makes you feel…

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Using Internet Explorer?

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If you're using Internet Explorer 6, as most visitors to my site do, then you will notice that things look a lot better around here.

I reinstalled Windows on my laptop and spent the best part of this morning sorting out all the issues with my site that caused it looked horrible on Internet Explorer. If you're not sure what has…

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Google Notebook

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Oooh, looks like Google is cooking up something new - Google Notebook. Well, I followed the link on this article, and it seems to work for me. I don't think I'll rely on it just yet as it is still part of Google Labs, so it's subject to change.

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Wrong Business

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Financial results announced yesterday:

Tesco announce bumper £2.25 billion profit:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4941236.stm

BP profit for the first 3 months of the year @ $5.265 billion:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4941262.stm

Sun Microsystems announce $217 million loss:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4941050.stm

Kinda' makes me wish Sun sold groceries or black gold :-/

Hey, maybe we'll be posting profits like this now Jonathan is at the healm.

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