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I got on Reddit

Marcus — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:26:43 +0000

This is odd. I stumbled upon this, randomly posted it on Reddit, and the next day it was on the frontpage with 500 comments. Then MrBabyMan ripped it, and it landed on the Digg frontpage, and just now I found (…)

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My Firefox Search Keywords

Marcus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:44:10 +0000

The Search Keywords feature in Firefox makes it possible to use search engines by starting a search string with a certain letter, in the address bar. For example “i die hard” searches for “die hard” on IMDb, in my browser. (…)

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The Pirate Bay trial going well

Marcus — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:15:32 +0000

Back in January 2008, Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four of the individuals behind The Pirate Bay for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws”. The trial began yesterday, and the prosecutors are supported by companies such as Sony BMG, (…)

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Escape From City 17: Part 1

Marcus — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:56:06 +0000

I just had to post this short film, amazing effects.

Replacing Firefox

Marcus — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:03:07 +0000

I stumbled upon a browser called Flock and wanted to give it a try. It’s build on the core of Mozilla Firefox, and the beta version 1.0 has just been released, for Mac and Windows. The biggest difference from Firefox (…)

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New design

Marcus — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:55:28 +0000

As you can see, I’ve updated the blog with a new design. I was getting bored with the other one, and I stumbled upon this one and really liked it. I’ve been using most of the day customizing it, mainly (…)

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Denmark is ftw, now with scientific proof

Marcus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:32:10 +0000

The Economist Intelligence Unit (which I have no idea what is) has created a list of the cities with the best “liveability”, in the world. A score of 0% means the inhabitants have an exceptional quality of life and 100% (…)

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Testing blogging with Word 2007

Marcus — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:27:29 +0000

If this works like it’s supposed to, I’ll probably start blogging with Word 2007, instead of the standard WYSIWYG Editor in WordPress, because the interface is sweet! It’s especially got one cool feature; if you press the Windows button and (…)

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Would you survive a zombie apocalypse? (and more…)

Marcus — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:53:26 +0000

The internet is filled with stupid tests, but I finally found a website with some proper ones, and I though I'd give you an opportunity to try them out, as well as get to know me a little better. ;) (…)

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IM with X360 is a pain in the ass

Marcus — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:47:42 +0000

The Xbox 360 Spring Update is here, and with it comes instant messaging in the form of Windows Live Messenger. Naturally I wanted to try it out, so I clicked on the new ‘Chat and IM’ tab, which then prompted (…)

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