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Bless Him

Awww Martyn went to see Hairspray in the West End today with his Aunty. It started Michael Ball dressed as a lady and according to him it was amazing. It was full of innuendos and the odd racist comedy. All in all it was amazing, he was so chuffed when he got back and he brought me a box of chocies back too. They're Belgium chocolates and they're really, really nice. Below is a piccie of them.

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Site Down Again Soon

The site will be going back down soon for about a day as I transfer dalehay.com to a new host to cope with constant downtime around.

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Apologises

Sorry about the downtime, my host has decided to upgrade the MySQL (database) servers on the whole of the network so this site and all my others have been down. They should all be back online now, however at the time of posting this Sound Upload is still down - so give it a few more hours.

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Mind Reading Computers

Microsoft have decided to go one step further with their technology on computers. They have filed a Patent (0070185697) for mind reading technology.

NewScientist said: "The company (Microsoft) says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. "Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions," the company says.
Instead, Microsoft wants to read the data straight from the user's brain as he or she works away. They plan to do this using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to record electrical signals within the brain. The trouble is that EEG data is filled with artefacts caused, for example, by blinking or involuntary actions, and this is hard to tease apart from the cognitive data that Microsoft would like to study.
So the company has come up with a method for filtering EEG data in such a way that it separates useful cognitive information from the not-so-useful non-cognitive stuff. The company hopes that the data will better enable to them to design user interfaces that people find easy to use. Whether users will want Microsoft reading their brain waves is another matter altogether."

Question is, would you want Microsoft reading your mind?

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Spam, spam, spam

Ok, a quick early morning tip for all you people out there that are getting bored of the same old junk that gets emailed to you, like get your dong enlarged or get sexy girls in your local area - fat girls more like, we all know some overweight sweaty momma is sitting on the otherend of the phone touching herself while endulging in a big mac. Anyways, back on subject... yeah spam emails. We all have them, we all get them. Below are a few questions answered about them.

Why do I get them?
You get them to earn other people money. You click the link in the email and buy something, the sender of that email gets money for your time.

How did they get my email address?
The chances are your email address has been entered onto a page thatshows your email address and has been picked up by search bots that scan webpages for any email address.

How do I stop them?
A majority of emails have a "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of them, however that is the thing you should NOT do. Why? Simple. Spammers send emails to millions of email addresses, some dud, some real. If you unsubscribe it shows your email address is active, hence you getting more. The only way really to get rid of them is turn on your spam filter settings in your email or blacklist the senders or change your email address.

I bet you don't know this...
A little tip that I have discovered, if your email address is a "no-reply@whatever.com" then you will no doubtibly recieve non spam at all. So if you have your own domain name and email address at your own domain name, then have it as "no-reply@" as this lowers your chances of getting spam.

There we go, a nice little round up of spam emails! Good morning to all dalehay.com readers! (Oh, if you like this news piece... please Digg it!)

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24 Days

I am 20 years old in 24 days. Damn I'm getting old. I'll have a zimmer soon.

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Want a QUID?

It'll cost you £6.25! That's correct, because space tourism is a "reality" the geeks over at the University of Leicester have come up with the QUID (Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination) - a currency for space. The rate of exchange for the funky retro looking currency is £6.25 / $12.50 / €8.68 to one QUID - not really a decent bargain unless you've won the jackpot in a intergalactic casino. The QUID has a gorgeous look to them as the colour stuff that you see inside each one is a our Sun then the little black dots are, yes you guessed it, the eight planets.

On the business and farfetched and weird side of things, a company called Travelex has already submitted plans to open the first Bureau de Change on the moon, how mad!

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Mazda Taiki

Now I'm not one for cars, but I did see this in The London Paper. It was publicly shown yesterday in its factory in Yokohama in Japan. Take a look at it, don't it look lovely.

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Saving 10p

Wow.. I'm now saving 10p on every bus journey... wow what a saving. Only 90p per bus ride. Pretty crappy to be honest, not really saving much, though I suppose in the long run I would save. They should impliment the Oyster scheme all around the country as when I was back in Atherstone it cost almost a fiver for a return bus journey to the next town which is about 8 miles away.

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