Life with Pi

    My Raspberry Pi single board computer arrived just over a week ago after a long wait for my ordered unit to be manufactured and shipped. I wrote back in early March about my thoughts on the product launch and I outlined my plans for the device a couple of weeks ago, now I've had it in my possession for a week here are my thoughts about the board itself.
    On first unboxing the unit my

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What I'm going to do with my Raspberry Pi

    That magic email from Farnell came on Saturday, my Raspberry Pi is in the post!
    So, what am I going to do with it?
    Like loads of other geeks I expect I'll plug it into my telly, connect it to my router and use it as a web terminal and media centre with geek bragging rights. There it'll sit for however many years it takes until I get a new telly or a Raspberry Pi 2, unseen and

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How We Deal with the Homeless Problem in Oxfordshire

    If you were given a heap of money and told you had to spend it deal with some homeless people living in Oxford, how might you proceed? Go on, you can spend it how you'd like.
    Perhaps you'd invest it in some kind of housing, maybe a subsidised rent scheme or something. I'm not a housing expert, but you'd kinda expect the solution to have something to so with housing, wouldn't you.
    In

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A simple question for SEO practitioners everywhere

    My friends ask me for advice when they are looking at search engine marketing services for their websites. They've usually got some pushy SEO salesman giving them the hard-sell. "We can put you on the top of Google searches!".
    I tell them to ask this simple question of SEO sales people who make that particular promise.

    "What's your name?".

    If the answer ain't "Larry Page" or "

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