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Goodbye Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hello Kentucky Grilled Chicken

I was watching the news tonight when it announced that KFC will be removing the ‘Fried’ part of their brand to replace it with ‘Grilled’ in order to promote a healthier image of their food. They will be trying out their new grilled chicken in in six cities — Indianapolis, …

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How strange is this!!

At the end of June last year me and my friend Michael flew from Tokyo to Berlin to meet 9 of my friends who were over for a long weekend. For the first 3 days we stayed in East Berlin and the last 3 days we stayed with my friends …

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Just returned from New York

I touched down in Glasgow this morning at 7am after a very enjoyable 6 days in New York. 9 of my mates booked up last year when I was still in New Zealand so whereas me and my friend George travelled direct from Glasgow, they had to all go via …

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The Big Apple

It’s 7.30pm just now however I’m just about to head to my friends to stay as we are up at 4.30am to fly to New York. I will be away for a week so there probably won’t be many posts until I return (if any). I’ll try and post some …

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What Should I do in New York?

This time next week I will be sitting on a plane heading towards the Big Apple. 10 of us are heading over for a week to New York (and 5 or 6 friends of friends will be over at the same time). It’s going to be a pretty wild week …

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MobiTV trying to shut down HowardForums

Yesterday, JKOnTheRun (great site!) reported that MobiTV is trying to shut down HowardForums because of links to copyrighted material being posted on the forum. Basically MobiTv does not protect their content and instead relies on it’s members not posting the url elsewhere…..which is clearly a very flawed assumption. Someone posted …

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What do you think of eBay’s policy on Google Checkout

We were listing some of our shop items for sale today on eBay when I noticed what I would personally call a very unfair policy from eBay towards Google and it’s checkout users. I listed the item for sale and put PayPal as the only payment option but since we …

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The story of Anand Ramnath Mani

Me and a friend have been on the lookout for a good domain name recently to start an online shop. The topic of trademarking came up because we found so many domains for sale which were using copyrighted names (this was particuarly bad with gambling related names). I recalled the …

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Hey, I’m a Cool Guy

Tyler Cruz announced his brand new theme for his blog with a post about cool I am. Hey…I’ve every right to have a big head haha ;) Check out the post here.