Why Dont You Blog?

Trying with a smaller sized picture

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As part of the drive to improve the quality, and quantity, of the photos on the blog, here are two more - taken in December 2006, with a Nokia N73 mobile phone with the first using the “negative” settings.
Let us know what you think.

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This is a one-liner to let our readers know we have added a few more categories.

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This is really just to see how easy or hard it is to make entries over wap (actually gprs but never mind)
while it is actually quite easy, entering long text on this phone will cripple me.
I think blogging is still best done by key board.

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Well here we are in the year 2005 and well I remember the hype of the late 1990s when the “paperless office” was the next big thing! What went wrong?

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Well under the advice of the CompuSkills web design team (ie “apache”) we have added a feedburner feed to the blog - you can see it at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhyDontYoublog

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Leading on from the previous rant about people trying to divert attention from the real issue in debates, this months .net magazine gets a look at.

In the “the Big Question” section it outlines a quote from the Wall Street Journal which quotes Peter Sealey as saying he knows of “no other industry where marketers knowingly introduce a flawed product.” Now Mr Sealey is currently a marketing professor at UCSB and was the chief marketing officer at Coca-cola.

Overall, the “talking heads” (typing heads?) who reply give a reasonable description of the issues involved. None really justify the eternal-beta some software companies live in (can you hear this Google?) but one is interesting.

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Well the latest .NET magazine is out now and in it you can see the 12 winners of the 2005 .net awards.

Not much to surprise anyone - 1&1 won the best web host (again) which is more than acceptable as that is who this domain is ultimately hosted with …

All the others were standard names - BBC, BlueYonder, Blogger, Faceparty, Amazon, Motley Fool, Cheap Flights etc.

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Well, it looks official now. Charon (Pluto’s moon) has no atmosphere.

Why any one thought it actually had any is beyond me, and probably no longer open for debate…, however as reported by the BBC.

By watching as Charon eclipsed a distant star last June, they were able to determine that the speed the light (from the star) was cut off signalled the lack of any atmosphere.

You can read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4588628.stm

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One of the advantages of compuskills having set up this weblog is that now our staff can make submissions from all manner of places and by email, web or even, as with this message, by mobile phone.

This message was submitted by using a Nokia phone to send an MMS message via the O2 gateway. Sadly it was far from an unqualified success as the email that arrived simply stated “you have recieved a message…” etc. For some reason O2.co.uk feels it neccessary to retain the content of an email on their own servers. This somewhat undermines the value of sending MMS messages to emails.

If anyone has any ideas for a work around or how to alter this please let me know.

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