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Travel the world with the geographic game - GeoGuessr

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1 min, 75 words

This is a very simple idea for a quiz. It drops you in a random place somewhere in the world and you use Google StreetView to work out where it is. If you are lucky you end up in a town or city, sometimes you end up in the middle of nowhere. It is amazing how much you can work out by looking at the flora or a random signpost.

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A personal link to 'The Mother Of All Demos'

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2 min, 201 words

There is a video of a demonstration given by Doug Engelbart in 1968 which is commonly referred to as "The Mother Of All Demos". In the demo, he demonstrates a lot of technologies for the first time together that are common place today and some which we haven't even achieved properly now:

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How to track down a missing international payment

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1 min, 158 words

I was due to be paid for some work earlier this month and the payment was from a foreign bank account into my account in GBP. The payment was made two weeks ago but never turned up in my account. After numerous phone calls with my bank and a lot of help from the CFO of the company I am working for (thanks Mario) we eventually managed to locate the payment.

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