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BBC Sports Reporter

Sorry, But it made me smile. …

tags: BBC, sport

Google Plus

Well I've finally got into Google+. So far it looks good. Will post more details when I've had more of a look around.…

tags: google, plus

BBC News Webite

What were the BBC thinking when they decided to redesign the News section of the website. There is so much whitespace it is ridiculous. Here's a screen shot so you can see what I mean. …

tags: BBC, news, design

Gtalk Online Status

I am looking at getting my old Gtalk Online Status bot back up and running using a CDN. I have a very basic system up and running and has been very stable for over two weeks. Just need to finalise …

tags: gtalk, status, cdn

Knocked Offline

Well the fire at the Paddington Exchange managed to knock my webserver offline for the day, as I was unable to get the new DNS to propagate around the main root servers. Oh well it seems to be back …

tags: offline, dns, paddington

Google Wave

Yay, I've got a Google Wave Invite. Will post more details soon…

tags: google, wave

Bing From Microsoft

Well I have to say that I'm quite impressed with Bing from Microsoft, they have completely revamped the search and made it look more like Google and the plain simple layout definately works for …

tags: bing, microsoft, search, engine

Comments On Posts

I've finally got round to coding a comments system onto the Jon Burrows site.

So you can now post your comments on anything that you see here.

Next up will be a Forum…

tags: jon, burrows, comments

Removing All HTML Tags from a String

Remove all HTML tags from your code

I have just noticed that I had a problem with this site in that the short preview shown on the homepage contain parts of HTML that was within the main body of …

tags: regex, code, vb, html

FLV Video Player

I was looking around for an Open Source FLV video player that I could use and adapt for both this

website and other commercial ventures. After looking around on various search engines I found …

comments: 1

tags: flv, player, open, source

Google Chrome Part 2

I have now downloaded and installed Google Chrome and some screenshots showing jonburrows.co.uk are below.

First first impressions are that it is very very fast, faster than Firefox even, it has …

tags: google, chrome

Google Chrome

You can now download Google Chrome from

http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

So sometime in the next 24hrs Google is to release its web browser 'Chrome' based on the webkit rendering engine.

tags: google, chrome

Gtalk Online Status Bot Update

Well I have now found the code and am giving it a couple of tweaks to make it more stable on my new system... Stay Tuned…

comments: 4

tags: gtalk, online, status, update, beta

Gtalk Online Status Bot

It been a long time since the Gtalk Online Status Bot, and due to the visits and hit the bot still gets I have decided to bring it back. Once I have dug out the code I will run some tests and then …

comments: 4

tags: gtalk, online, status

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