Monthly Archives: October 2009

Cheap Mobile phone tip for use in Spain

Posted on October 30, 2009 by spgennard

While visiting Spain/Madrid my partner finally managed to get a pay-as-you mobile that she could charge without requiring a spanish credit card, which never of us have, as we live in the UK. Anyway, the mobile just cost €20 from … Continue reading →

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TomTom Xl Live and missing traffic updates

Posted on October 28, 2009 by spgennard

We recently move from our trust TomTom One to the wizzy TomTom XL Live. Unfortunately some where in the update process, the TomTom live was only part activated…. basically the TomTom traffic update kept complaining the account did not have … Continue reading →

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Online language translation services for your website

Posted on October 27, 2009 by spgennard

Hi, While creating this website I looked at various widgets for translating the webpages on the fly… none of them were as easy to use as googles… so…  If you are lazy but still want people from with other countries … Continue reading →

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C# and reserved words

Posted on October 23, 2009 by spgennard

Have you ever wanted to create some real nasty code in C#… Well C# has a mechanism that allows a token to be used as a literal, thus avoiding the reserved word clash issues… For example; int @int = 1; … Continue reading →

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