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Thanks to Adam for this. It comes from Facebook Lexicon, a new trend-tracking tool for the social network that can tell you how often certain terms appear in wall posts.
The blue line is “party tonight”, the beige is “hungover”. The big fat spike is New Year’s eve. Click on the pic to see it full-size.

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This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser.
I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried to [...]

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and not in my pocket, with a leaky biro.

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I’ve had this post on the back burner for a while, because I planned to fill it with examples as they occured to me. As I was adding the third, I thought to look on Wikipedia which has plenty, so now I can put this thing to bed.
You see, I have to confess to a [...]

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I can’t help it.
I’ve trained myself to overlook a bit of apostrophic abuse here and there, and I’ve come to accept that people have to be left to stew in their own lax capitalisation and dreadful grammar, but this is just too much:

Nnnnnnnng. Nnnnnnnnnnnng. Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

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A TechCrunch post yesterday helped focus my mind on something that’s been dawning of me of late: Microsoft is in deep shit.
XP refuses to be killed off and Vista is flat-lining, while people are increasingly inclined to dabble with Linux-based OS like Ubuntu. Meanwhile, Office is bloated, expensive and hideous to use. Open Office is [...]

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I’ve come to a mini-realisation. There is no getting away from IT.
Let me fill you in - I used to work in tech support, which was OK, but there’s only so many progress meters a man can take. If you laid mine end to end they’d probably reach Belgium.
My plan was to begin my career [...]

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Apologies for being so last year on this one, but thanks to the Guardian’s viral video chart I’ve finally got around to watching something that our own Chloe flagged up months ago.

Web 2.0 believers, bask in your post-coital glow.

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OK, let’s see if you can spot the flaw in this particular child-protection idea simply by reading the following standfirst:
Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children.
Any inkling why that might not work?
Frankly, I find it astounding that anyone could even write [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I was poking fun at a Facebook ad that had the clickable option ‘More Ads’.
Now I love a good 5-minute ad break as much as the next man, which is why I’m as miserable as the next man to read that Ofcom thinks we should have more of them.
Ofcom says [...]

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