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As you can tell from the last two posts, I’m contributing to a new social community site called Qype. I want to see how this goes for a while, and in the meantime you might notice a few entries being posted from there.

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I’ve started contributing to a new site, The Cowcross Review, something my flatmate and I are putting together for the Timeout Top 50 restaurant challenge.

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I’ve been tagged by the 8 things about me meme thanks to Gerrod. The rules start something like this:

• Each player must post these rules to begin the meme.
• Each player starts with eight random facts or habits about themselves.
• People who get tagged must blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Not one for rules (and because this meme’s been going around for a while) not to mention that most people haven’t been following the last one, consider yourself tagged if you’re reading this and blog about it if you want to participate.

1. My hair grows ridiculously long ridiculously quickly. This meant either very shaggy hair, or a haircut every two or three weeks. I always get comments about how quickly my hair grows out. I took nature’s hint and just let it grow.
2. I had a shaved head in grade twelve. Of course, back to point 1, it was all fine by school formal later that year.
3. I’m pretty disinterested when it comes to watching most movies, but I’ll always happily watch any horror or thriller movies when the opportunity presents itself.
4. When I read a book, I generally don’t finish it all because it doesn’t interest me, or I have to read through it as fast as I can.
5. I always carry a pen and paper with me (where it’s practical) everywhere I go, in the form of a Moleskine journal, or more recently the leather Ciak one that Suz and Al got me last year for Christmas. You never know when you will have a great idea and want to write it down.
6. I went to my first memorable concert during my first year at work. Amber from uni invited me to see Endorphin at The Zoo in the Valley and since then, I’ve been addicted to seeing live acts where I can.
7. I never thought I’d last more than two years in the same job for the same company. I’ve now been working for Thoughtworks for over three and a half.
8. Despite considering myself a foodie, I don’t consider myself one of those foodie snobs. I think some people feel pressured to take me somewhere nice or cook over the top food, but I’m just as happy with what you might consider fairly ordinary food.

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I’m contributing to a new community… Check it out here.

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I’ve decided that it’s high time I moved my work related posts to a new site. I think my current site catered to two main audiences, and it’s probably time to properly tailor the content for both circles. If you’re interested in my life, then keep on reading this site, otherwise please update your feeds to point to the new site and the new feed.

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Anyone who has owned a blog using some standard blogging software will have dealt with horrible spam at sometime. It’s a frustrating and time consuming annoyance, and many people give up to the torrents of spammed comments or trackbacks. Obviously there must be some economic reason for spammers to continue, but I do (and I’m sure that you too) hope they pay dearly for it in karmic retribution later in their life.

I’ve tried several attempts to stop spammers, but most techniques require additional work. I considered the Captcha plugin, that is a popular tool many people adopt, but forces real commenters to work more (by typically reading an image and inputting some numbers or characters) and reduces the accessibility of your website.

My most recent attempt which seems to be working (so far) is the Akismet plugin for Wordpress. For other wordpress users out there, I suggest giving it a go.

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I’m on holidays for two weeks from today - I’m returning home for a short hiatus since it’s almost been one year since I left for the UK. It’s great being able to wake up late, go out for some great breakfast, read the paper and take my time getting to the airport. I’ve loaded myself with a number of books for the flight, updated the music on my MP3 player and now finishing packing.

I’ll be stopping in Signapore on the way over, so the site might not be updated for about a week.

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Apologies to any visitors for the downtime this week. It has been two years since this site started, and it was just this week that I found out that my domain name had expired. It took a little longer than expected getting it renewed since I had a very old email address registerd with the registrar, but as you are probably finding out, has all been sorted out.

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