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Monday 7 May 2012

Bank-Holiday Rule-Change Monday

This idea comes from Fangraph's "Rule Change Friday", an idea to promote discussion on potential rule changes in baseball. I thought this would be good to apply to football. It seems like there has been a lot of controversy recently. So we have a guest blogger, David Weadick, who is not happy with the 2005 changes to the offside rule. I do like to provide balance so here is an article from the Guardian praising those changes for enabling Barcelona and Spain's recent dominance.

Enjoy!

Sunday 6 May 2012

Context Searches In Google

I have put up a page for the more straight-forward Google tips that I will keep updating. In this post I want to talk about some search tips that may help you find what you are looking for.

What can I do with Twitter?


The image on the right is a use case diagram. In software engineering it is a high-level view of a system. The diagram on the right appears to be for an eBay-like system. We can leverage this knowledge whenever we are trying to find out ways to use a particular product. So for any of you who continue to dismiss the value of twitter, try searching for "twitter use cases".


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