Henri Cook

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This entry ended up being far too long for the Facebook Group so i’ve pasted it here and linked from there!
I wrote out an epic page or so on ITS a couple of weeks back and ironically it was too long for Facebook to deal with and I lost it all. I’m back for another [...]

Free Wall Street Journal, if this interests… it might also work for various academic papers and for all these othersites that are about to throw up Pay Walls
… vive la resistance
Install this in firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953
Add a site:
Site: wsj.com
Action, Custom: http://www.google.com/news/
Disable RefControl (right click on the little icon you’ll see at the bottom of your firefox window)
Go [...]

16 Aug, 2009

A quote on public and private self

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Life

I just found this in a paper by Michael Pafford (1975, Entwistle / How Students Learn) and think it’s something that I can relate to, on some level. What’s your opinion?
“In my childhood and more particularly  during my teens I sought solitude: it was a matter of choice not necessity. I was seldom unhappy and [...]

01 Jun, 2009

Random awesome songs: Song of the minute.com

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Life

I’ve been messing aroung with songoftheminute.com since it launched a couple of days ago – i’ve slowly found myself using it more and more for ‘general listening’. As the name implies a different song is oftered up to visitors every minute but for me the added value comes with how those songs are selected – [...]

26 May, 2009

Nokia’s Ovi Store

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| It's Wrong.| Life| Technical Support

Nokia Nokia Nokia, i’ve been a faithful customer for years but the Ovi store might be the last straw.
I’ve had problems with you spamming my email in an impossible-to-unsubscribe manner, your poor online customer service and you’ve slowly been falling behind as the IPhone has become more and more prominent.
I’ve just logged in to the [...]



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Henri Cook is a postgraduate Computer Science student at Durham University, UK. His interests range from the technical and geeky through to watersports through to psychology. Please take the time to look around and comment, the author values your feedback.