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Gloriously Unauthentic Pad Thai

Quite a departure from the traditional recipe but this is how I like to make it. Ingredients 2 red onions, sliced very thinly 4 tbsp vegetable oil 400g cooked prawns, drained 4 sachets fine noodles (Sharwoods Stir Fry ones are good) 4 medium eggs, beaten 100g beansprouts 4 tbsp fish sauce 8 tbsp sweet chilli dipping…

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I’m in your phone, watching you

While I was doing some reading on HTML5 geolocation on Friday, I noticed a method that I had missed previosuly – watchLocation. While navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition will return the current position of the device, watchPosition fires off an event every time the device changes position. So, you can have real…

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Sadly, from O2

Welcome to O2 live chat. Someone will start chatting with you soon. You're through to Jay. Jay: Hi there. My name’s Jay I am an O2 sales advisor, how may I help you today? You: Hi, I was just wondering if the data bundles for smartphones include the hotspots in various shops etc.? I think this used to be the case a…

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Snookered

So I'm currently travelling up to Edinburgh and fancied watching the semi final of the snooker on my phone. A quick check of the app store shows MyPlayer. I give that a try but then find out that BBC content has been removed due to a licensing issue. Another search showed no official BBC app so I thought I'd try the…

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Pro Evolution 2011 Master League Online and the Head Injury Lag Issue

Sometimes playing Master League Online on PES2011 is a fun experience. Pitting your skill against other human beings can be satisfying in a way that running rings around a computer opponent’s defence just doesn't match. This is the experience about 20% of the time. Other times you have issues with lag. And, when…

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A New Back End

Not that you should notice, but I decided to move my site’s code to ASP.net MVC 3 with Razor. Initial impressions are that it’s far easier to work with than the webforms view engine although the lack of automatically resolving objects' namespaces is a little annoying. There’s no change that should be visible (apart…

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A Scam Call

So, I just got a call from "Dell Customer Services" to let me know they were getting notifications of lots of viruses on my system. "OH MY GOD!" I thought to myself, "What can I do?". Luckily, my helpful advisor was at hand to offer me a solution to this devastating turn of events. First he directed me to right-click…

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Geolocation JavaScript

var locator = function () { var _logger; /* Public Methods *******************************************************************/ this.attachLogger = function (logger) { _logger = logger; _logger.log('attached logger'); }; this.resolveLocation = function (successCallback, failCallback) { …

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An email to Dell Customer Services

Hi, I'm emailing as suggested to provide feedback on the customer service I received when I called in last week (Friday 9th April). The issue I had was that a laptop I had ordered was delivered DOA (I was unable to power up or charge the laptop). I went through some technical tests with the advisor (Priyanka) and she…

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'Song For Someone' Lyrics

I can't stand the feelings Running, jumping screaming 'round my head Everything stops in a moment Taking in the weight of what he said Every step I take leads back to you Every second I wait doesn't bear to losing you I don't think I ever told you Just how grateful I was for you Three years gone, it seems so long…

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