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Mar 31 2009

Amsterdam 2008 Photos #12

Category: Amsterdam,Personal,Pictures — ChrisM @ 1:28 pm

The Greenery In Holland

arrrrrrrrrrrrgh, lost all the text I originally entered for this post during the downtime my sites had. Will try and remember what I was thinking about roughly…

Two types of Greenery, the first are coming, the second are at the end of the post, click the Continue Reading or similar link…

1) Shot out the window of the bus to Keukenhof (having changed forms of transport at Leiden, with a stop off to Double A, a coffeeshop a little off the beaten track. Tulip fields abound in this area. May well do a separate post for Keukenhof itself, these photos are all from a collection I posted at a couple of Amsterdam Coffeeshop forums a while back.

Here we have a pretty water fountain/sculpture at the entrance to the gardens.

A shot of a man playing with his organ in Holland. Wonder if that will get me any search engine based traffic 😉

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Tags: Amsterdam, Chair, Chris Merriman, Irina, Reading, search engine, The Netherlands, United Kingdom

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Apr 20 2008

Books Than Will Kill Your Brain

Category: Books,In The Media — ChrisM @ 1:03 pm

Reading does, in general, expand your mind, help you to think in new directions, and even relax you after a stressful day.
Cracked has listed five books that maybe should not have ever made it past their draft version, and will most probably not push your brain to a higher plane of consciousness…
In case you need tempting to click on over to the article, here is the list of titles described…

3rd edition(!)

With such quality titles, how can you not go and read more about them?

Tags: Much Ado About Nothing, Reading

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Mar 05 2008

XKCD Again

Category: Personal,Pictures — ChrisM @ 4:06 pm

You may remember that Oleg directed me to XKCD some time back, and I posted a few of the images. Well I took a look at the more recent strips, and wanted to post a couple. Click the ‘Continue Reading’ link to see the rest.

This first one is for Irina, and her patience with me 🙂

Success XKCD
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Tags: Christmas, Irina, Reading, United Kingdom

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Aug 28 2007

Beijing Promises To Crack Down On Hackers

Category: Aware Or Conspiracy Nut...,In The Media — ChrisM @ 1:14 am

Reading between the lines of an article, it would appear that there have been rumours of government involvement in China, with hackers’ attempts to infiltrate German Government computer networks, in a similar way to how Russia was accused over Estonian security breaches (see my post from a while back – Moscow Get Techy). Given that the article is on a Chinese web site, it would be very unlikely that any such accusation would be repeated, though I’d be interested to hear from anyone who knows a little more about the background to this story.
I can’t help feeling that this public display of reassurance may be used as a cover to further restrict the abilities of normal Chinese citizens to both obtain, and further disseminate information that is not in the “country’s interests”.

Tags: China, German Government, ISP, Moscow, Reading, Russia

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Jun 11 2007

You Blog Too Much…

Category: Personal — ChrisM @ 2:11 pm

How To Tell When Blogging Is Taking Over Your Life
(collated from a few sources, added a few personal lines, removed non-relevant ones)….

You meet new people, and really resent the lack of an ‘About’ page attached to their forehead.
You check your blog based revenue more than your bank account.
You can’t remember important dates – your wedding anniversary, family birthdays etc., but you know what your Technorati rank is.
You’ve got more “blog friends” than “real life” friends.
Your breakfast of choice is marmite on toast, cornflakes and Google reader.
You think LSD is something to do with RSS or XML.
Your family doesn’t call you anymore, they just check your blog.
You think Nike should make a shirt that says “just blog it”.
You would buy it if they did.
You’re listening to the travel news and get excited by the phrase “heavy traffic”.
You think the 3 R’s are Reading, Writing and RSS.
After 5 minutes of meeting someone really interesting you ask, “So, do you blog?”
You can’t remember what you did last week without consulting your blog.
Your blogroll is bigger that your phonebook.
When asked to feed the kittens, you wonder if they would prefer RSS or Atom?
You know what a blog carnival is.
You’ve participated in one.
You wonder if they do vacations at the Googleplex.
Your lifetime goal is achieving a Page Rank of 8.
You refuse to wear black hats because you think it will affect your SEO.
You understood the last one 🙂
You have more than three friends with numbers in their names.
You try to offer links as a form of payment to non-internet companies.
You start getting withdrawal symptoms when you go a day without posting.
You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam.
The name Kubrick means more to you than the director of A Clockwork Orange.
You finish reading this and go to make a post with your own additions…

Tags: A Clockwork Orange, bank account, Birthday, director, Google, Nike, Page Rank, Reading, travel news, XML

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