ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

The Music Intelligence Quiz via Very True Things.
Your final score was 129/180
Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points)
You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the key to the […]

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For those of you know how much I’m down with the yoof, I’ve been “home with my downies” recently*, and having recently come across the SEO Rapper**, I thought I’d share it with you.
After all, anyone who can deliver the line…
you use css your page’ll load quicker
your clients satisfied like they’re eating on a snickersSEO […]

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I’ve finally joined the iPod generation, even if the bizarre second-letter capitalisation kick that it has going on just gets on my nerves.
I’ve had an MP3 player for a few years, but it as it had more or less given up the ghost (well, it worked for everything apart from getting sound out of it, […]

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Is it just me, or does anyone else have some sort of internal radio? You know, so you can be sitting at work and find that some song is going through your head? Or if you consciously think about it, you can change the internal playlist to play some other song that you know well […]

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This little scheme came about because the conversation turned to what sort of songs someone was going to use as a wedding song, and obviously the lads then piped up with their suggestions, which weren’t always entirely appropriate. The whole thing then metamorphosed into the idea of coming up with the least appropriate songs to […]

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