The Bhavani Talwar (Sword): Help Locate It.Saturday, September 4th, 2010A guest from India informed me that he wanted to see Shivaji’s Sword and that perhaps it was displayed at a London museum. As I had no information of the sword, nor had heard of it, I researched the net and found a succinct summary:
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List of Crawlers & Bots, and their I.P. Addresses.Thursday, May 13th, 2010I use some code to identify crawlers and bots on TheInterPost so that they do not get included in the usage stats on the Research page. This way only human visits are counted in the stats. Updated: 13th May 2010 (I will try to update this list at least once a month).
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No Water Supply In BirminghamWednesday, April 21st, 2010The water supply stopped this morning about 9am and it’s been off since. I asked the neighbours if they were experiencing the same thing and if they had been given a notice about the water being cut off for any reason – Yes and No were the respective answers, so I called Severn Trent Water to find out what was happening and got an recorded message about there being an issue in the Birmingham area and that engineers were looking into it.
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Tax Changes for 2010/11, and How They Affect YouTuesday, March 9th, 2010The new tax year starts on April 6th 2010 and the following changes are coming up which may or may not affect your finances and planning. Tax-free ISA savings allowance – AN INCREASE.
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List Of Continents And CountriesWednesday, February 24th, 2010Whilst developing a new publishing site, I thought I’d need a list of continents and countries to put in the mysql database that runs the publishing site to help locate people. I researched the Internet for a while but did not find what I wanted until a few days ago whilst looking at a site for a totally different reason and came acrtossa list of continents and sub-countries by accident.
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MySQL Database Country Code Table SQL With ISO 3166 1 and 2 Country CodesMonday, February 8th, 2010I am developing a new posting/publishing site and had to find and create a MySQL Database Table to manage names and abbreviations of all the countries of the world. It took a while searching through the web but I found a few sources and then created my own MySQLlist of countries of countries and their ISO codes.
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Windows 7 Works!Thursday, January 7th, 2010I spent a few hours yesterday backing up my Vista system so that I can re-install it if the new Windows 7 system did not work for me. Today, I installed Windows 7 with a hope that it would be a bit faster, less clunky and more “do what you’d expect from an upgrade from Windows XP”
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