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my thoughts and ideas

I have often used Premier Travel Inn because for a family of 4 it can be somewhat cheaper than an ordinary hotel, or even a Bed & Breakfast. But after what happened last weekend in London I don’t know if we will be quite so quick to use them again.

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Back in March I bought a Linksys router. On the 11th June it failed. No lights, nothing worked. I contacted Amazon, where it was originally purchased. As it was just outside of there standard returns they asked if I would contact Linksys. I did so.
Within 5 emails I identified the problem as being the power [...]

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Love or loathe him, Alan Sugar is a considerable force to be reckoned with. I watched the first two series of The Apprentice with interest, not just to see the antics of the contestants but to see Alan in action. I now see that they are asking for applicants for a third series. As such [...]

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Not sure if this is a rant, or just Joe Clark going off on a tangent but:
The wrong people’s Internets is an interesting read all the same.
Note I originally attributed Zeldman, my sincerest apologies to Joe Clark. Though I ain’t gonna apologise for saying it was a rant

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I am currently writing a series of scripts to handle a quiz. As usual when i write these things I try and implement little things that I may have not known about before, or that I have never had a chance to use.
When doing and ‘Insert’ query, you can do multiple inserts. Why isn’t it [...]

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… in Firefox, always remember to test in Internet Explorer *sigh*.
I spent most of today coding a javascript preview of Markdown, works great in Firefox, but does it in IE - no of course it doesn’t. If I actually knew anything about javascript I might be able to do something about it but I don’t, [...]

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