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Farewell Party

Published 16th August 2010, 18:02 by coxy in General

Sally Renshaw (scrapbookclub) and Matt Cox (coxy)

Sally and I had a Farewell Party in Manchester. Thank you to everyone that attended!

You can view the photos on Opera Community.

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Face(book) Recognition

Published 15th August 2010, 12:33 by coxy in General

Facebook Face Recognition - Live Example

Seems like Facebook has implemented face recognition, asking 'Whose face is this?' and showing untagged people.

Maybe as soon as Christmas, but probably in the coming year, you'll be able to just upload a photo and it will auto-tag all your friends - just like Google Picasa.

Cons: Photos of you on the web are too easy to find.

Pros: You should have full privacy controls over any photo of you uploaded to the site.

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Selling Up

Published 13th August 2010, 02:02 by coxy in General

Samsung Jet S8000 Mobile Phone

Over the past few weeks I've been selling lots of things on ebay UK to get rid of things I don't need for the move to Norway.

Most of the auctions for DVDs and games have ended but there'll be more over the coming week or two including; Samsung S8000, Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board, Guitar Hero II and III (with guitar controllers) and more.

Check out my ebay Profile and if you see anything that you'd like - don't hesitate to bid.

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bands I have fed

Published 13th August 2010, 01:10 by coxy in Music

Since I just bought the album, I was just checking out Slingshot Dakota on Last.fm when I came across the tag 'bands I have fed', swiftly followed with 'bands that have fed me'. Last.fm has some pretty funny tags sometimes - and I love finding them.

I don't know who posted these - it was before Last.fm implemented history data for that sort of thing, but I just added Encyclopedia, Mr Kamikaze and goFASTER>> to the former, Pickled Dick to the latter.

Which bands have you fed or been fed by?

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Painted Snails

Published 6th August 2010, 15:16 by coxy in Illustration

Painted Snail Shell

"About, well, must be two years ago you had a suggestion in the newsletter about using snails as tea lights," Hampster Squared writes to b3ta.

"I'm an artist and I work with live insects and plants, but had no idea how drawing would fit in with the rest of what I was working on. The snails were a revelation. So I've spent the past two or so years painting on snail shells. Have a look at some of them."

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