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On The Beat by M1ke

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Towards the end of May I had the chance to go out on patrol with Greater Manchester Police around the Moss Side and Rusholme areas of South Manchester. It was part of their community reporter initiative. Aiming to give local communities a clearer view of what local policing involves. Like many other aspects of our society, peoples view of the police can be subject to heavy bias from the media, and seems to be one of the hottest subjects to debate at 11pm in a pub. When they feel its important. The second...

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M1ke on Random

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We left on the third morning for our trip around Ha Long Bay. We visited Hoi An, the market town of central Vietnam, for 2 days, looking around the French inspired architecture of the Old Town, wandering around the lamp lit streets at night, and getting some clothes tailor made - for very reasonable prices! It was the calmest place wed visited, and also the most different from all the other cities on the trip. On the third day we got a bus up to Da Nang and flew to Ha Noi. Light at the end of the Tunnel.

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How to Code Yourself into Hallucination by M1ke

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How to Code Yourself into Hallucination. I began on a team with my friend Ben. And whilst wed had a few ideas regarding the challenges we could take on we took the chance offered to us by Shaf. To get introduced to two other developers, Jack and Tom from the BBC. The main event organiser, the ever present Gemma. After some time discussing our options we decided that wed target the challenge which we had the most innovative idea for. The team at Intechnica.

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Facebook Mutual Friend Counter

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Facebook Mutual Friend Counter. I was surprised to find nobody had made a simple tool to indicate who you have the most friends in common with. So I made one. The app needs access to Facebook to do its magic. I am not storing any of your details, but feel free to say hi on Twitter. Who do I have the most mutual friends with? Now let your friends know, and give them a chance to find out who they have most friends in common with! Post to your timeline.

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A Pleasant Hue by M1ke

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We stayed 2 nights in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam. We saw the huge imperial citadel and a large pagoda/temple complex, as well as making friends in the small but growing backpackers district there. We got a bus on the second morning to Hoi An, over a very bumpy mountain pass - good views but a bit sickly!

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Tailor Made by M1ke

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We visited Hoi An, the market town of central Vietnam, for 2 days, looking around the French inspired architecture of the Old Town, wandering around the lamp lit streets at night, and getting some clothes tailor made - for very reasonable prices! It was the calmest place wed visited, and also the most different from all the other cities on the trip. On the third day we got a bus up to Da Nang and flew to Ha Noi.

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M1ke on Business

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Social media. Its a phenomenon, the hottest product of the last couple of years, essential for any business and an insutry worth billions. With it, your company can get more engagement. Without it, youre not even worth bothering with. Unless the person doing the bothering happens to be a so-called social media expert who wants you to pay them to. Spend the day on Facebook. And our friends are even sending it to us. With the promise of. And Carling/Fosters/Stella still all continue to make and sell. In en...

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M1ke on Technology

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Youre Crap at Driving. Unemployment is up, levels of literacy and numeracy are down and yet the number of people on the roads has never been greater. Cars and motor vehicles in general seem like an aspect of the fabric of modern life, but stop to actually think of how complex they are in operation, how intricate they are in engineering and how dangerous they are. Careering through a housing estate. And health benefits that it entails. Per year, whereas cars cause none. Wiping us out anyway. The modern wo...

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The Dark Side of San Francisco by M1ke

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The Dark Side of San Francisco. And having a drink with some other tech startup types. What I got was not. The view most people have of this famous city. My journey seemed condemned to failure when my flight to North California from Minneapolis took almost 6 hours to take off, due in small part to snow and in larger part to the airlines lack of preparation. Than I have in any week in Manchester. Had people sleeping in them. Crossing the road to avoid the person following me, I wandered casually back ...