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A few minutes ago I was playing a track in Winamp, with Gmail open in an Opera window, and on refreshing Gmail, the Google ‘web clip’ at the top of the inbox display contained the same phrase, ‘jet stream’, as the track. Is that merely a coincidence, or does Gmail monitor wh[...]

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Speedometer, rev counter and fuel and temperature gauges on the dashboard of my 1992 Reliant Scimitar SST. Photo taken on B1098 alongside Sixteen Foot Drain, Isle of Ely, England. In part 1 of ‘Shaping behaviour’, we took a look at ’sticks and carrots’ as approaches for shapi[...]

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After scrambling for the deadline and then waiting for all the submissions to be looked at, Photoshop Ninja has now been accepted as a member of the 9rules Community! 9Rules is a thriving community of great website developers, content publishers and creatives that promote quality content on the Inte[...]

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A functor, also called function object is an object that encapsulates a function or an expression. It is commonly required for functional programming style. It can enable higher order functions and internal iterators. The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) uses functors quite frequently and helps i[...]

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Mike at Techdirt writes if the programmer takes the blame for not being a user, make the user a programmer. It is quite true that software gets hurt if it is not developed for usage by the user. It is natural that the creator and the consumer always think about different things. They have to, since [...]

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If you remember the post about the Demographics of Digg I wrote back in early December, one of the general themes of the associated Digg comments was the overwhelming niceness of the pie charts. Being the generous sort that I am, I thought I'd do a comprehensive tutorial of how to achieve the [...]

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Earlier today, I was delighted to receive a belated Christmas present. I received an email from Tyme White inviting us to join the 9 rules network. Over the Christmas break, I had missed the announcement of new additions on the 9 rules blog What is the 9 Rules Network? The 9 Rules network is a [...]

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I've been busy working on all sorts of things over Christmas and the new year - some projects drawing to a close, other new and exciting projects on the horizon. One of my new personal projects is new music site Fuzznut. Although improbably titled, its main focus is independent music (i.e. [...]

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This is the Wall Street Bull. Weighing a hefty 3200kg, the bronze sculpture was created by sculptor Arturo Di Modica as his testament to the vitality of American capitalism following the 1987 stock market crash. He made it at his personal cost, and had it placed (illegally) in front of the New York[...]

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