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Delhi Belly

Third and final test for the England cricket team in Pakistan tomorrow. Worried. Even if we win we only draw the series, and from some of the photos I've seen the guys seem to be hinting that the curries aren't really agreeing with them...

Tags: England, cricket

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Real World Hacks

Did you know that in most elevators, if you press "close door" and the floor you want to go to at the same time, all floors in between will be bypassed? Also that pressing "0" or "00" on most automated phone systems is a shortcut that gets you through to a real person? Even the human body has some useful cheats! If you know of a handy hack please write it in the comments.

Related: hack

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DIY Home Cinema

I came across this website a while ago showing people how to build a projector very cheaply. Well, I got made redundant last month (which has now actually been for the best) and when that happened I got an OHP for free and flat panel monitor for a bargain! So here's the result!


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Warp 1.0 Out Now!

Last week I made a little image warping application called "Warp" (imaginative, I know) that will be available for download from download.com. There's a page about it here.

Tags: warp, software, project

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Here's another great video clip, this time of David Elsewhere in Kollaboration 4.

Related: video, David Elsewhere

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Some great video clips

Ski jump gone wrong.

Swerving free kick.

See also: video, skiing, football

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Respond to a disaster

As the newly appointed chief of the Emergency Management Agency for Bluebear County, it's your job to handle an eruption of the fictional Mount Spur. Are you up to it? The Supervolcano Game. (I killed about 200 000 people when I tried this.)

Tags: game

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Rock School

A seven-part series featuring musicians from my old school Christ's Hospital and Gene Simmons of US Rock Band 'Kiss' will begin on Friday, 30th September 2005 on Channel 4 at 9.30pm. More about Rock School can be found here. Watch it!

Related: Christs Hospital, Rock School

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