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COVID-19 and Virtual Quizzes

May 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on COVID-19 and Virtual Quizzes

It is pretty easy to tell what the UK has been upto during the coronavirus lockdown, virtual pub quizzes!  Obviously the scale of the two units, Google search hits (as a fraction of the most hits) and COVID-19 are very different. So I’ve taken a simple Z-transform to plot the data on the same scale.

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Enabling TeamViewer on TalkTalk routers

June 26, 2018June 29, 2018 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on Enabling TeamViewer on TalkTalk routers

By default the TalkTalk router blocks access to the TeamViewer website/app. Fortunately it is easy to stop it.

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Relationship between Car Insurance Price and Population Density

February 7, 2017 Sean Internet, Mathematics Leave a Comment on Relationship between Car Insurance Price and Population Density

There was some discussion in my office today about the correlation between car insurance prices and where you live. The idea being that the prices are correlated with population density.

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Number of Unique Song Choices on Desert Island Discs

January 29, 2017 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on Number of Unique Song Choices on Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th birthday today, and today’s guest is David Beckham. Beckham will pick 8 song choices to take away with him on a desert island. What I wondered was, will all of his song choices have been picked by guests previously? With over 3,000 episodes there are going to be a lot

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Dealing with WordPress Security Issues

November 18, 2016 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on Dealing with WordPress Security Issues

Recently another WordPress site that I manage has had a lot of malware issues.

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Goodbye Google Reader

July 7, 2013 Sean Google Feature, Internet Leave a Comment on Goodbye Google Reader

As we say goodbye to one of my favourite Google features it is time to find a replacement.    

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My Favourite Wikipedia Page

July 25, 2012October 25, 2012 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on My Favourite Wikipedia Page

Everyone should have a favourite Wikipedia page, and this is mine…

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Google Chrome Extensions

July 11, 2011March 15, 2012 Sean Google Feature, Internet Leave a Comment on Google Chrome Extensions

Internet browsers are of fundamental importance to surfing the internet, you are using one right now! There are many debates about which browser is the best, and at some point I hope to write my own, I use Google Chrome and want to talk about my top 19 Google Chrome extensions. Extensions which will improve

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Time to Replace Spotify?

April 15, 2011March 15, 2012 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on Time to Replace Spotify?

Today Spotify announced that it is cutting its free service to just 10 hours of music a month, and you can only listen to the same song 5 times a month. Even worse, this is going to affect ALL free users to the service, not just new ones. What to do?

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Easy Access to Journals for UoB Students

March 15, 2011March 15, 2012 Sean Internet Leave a Comment on Easy Access to Journals for UoB Students

As a warning this blog is only going to be useful to people at the University of Birmingham, although a similar method may work for people at other universities I don’t know the system so can not say for sure!

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