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Bay Area Souvenir # From Before The Dot.COM Boom
Before Amazon, there was a place of homage:
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An Analysis of a Fake Vodafone Bill PDF File # fascinating PDF trojan #mustread
We haven’t come across many malicious PDF files recently in our spam traps, so when we found this message, ostensibly from Vodafone Deutschland, we naturally took a closer look. In this example, the cyber crooks are targeting Vodafone Deutschland customers by spamming a fake billing statement. The message claims to be from Vodafone-OnlineRechnung@vodafone.com. The spam…
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Music industry group BPI demands pirate proxy closure # Just wait until they find out about #torproject and duplicate trackers
The UK’s music industry body is demanding that a service offering a workaround to access banned site The Pirate Bay is shut down by its owner. Pirate Party UK, a political group, has set up a proxy that can be used to reach the piracy site even though it has been blocked by the UK…
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Sometimes the NHS does work as advertised
So sometime on my recent trip I must have wrenched a shoulder muscle; I didn’t notice it happen but the effects came on while sleeping, immensely painful and generally waking me up about 4am each morning until the muscle spasms subsided. It started on friday, peaked on sunday and is now tailing off but is…
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VIM Adventures: an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts
What is VIM Adventures? VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts (commands, motions and operators). It’s the “Zelda meets text editing” game. It’s a puzzle game for practicing and memorizing VIM commands (good old VI is also covered, of course). It’s an easy way to learn VIM without a steep learning…
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Great – now I’m worried that #CCDP / #CDB is going to get horse-traded against #Leveson …
… but in which direction I have no idea. The Lib Dems might withdraw their support for government plans to give the police new powers to monitor email and internet use, the BBC has learned. Party sources say leader Nick Clegg is ready to use a parliamentary report, due out next week, to oppose the…
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BBC News – New York City celebrates day without violent crime / why is London not partying?
New York record low murder rate in a “city of 8 million people”: 366 (to date) Aggressive prevention tactics Despite the fall in homicides, statistics point to a 3% overall rise in crime. There has also been a 9% increase in larceny, which police blame on a surge in smartphone thefts. But killings are now…
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Visiting Chez Gravier
With Gilles, Nicole et famille; plus Moukie the next-door cat. Plus: a Swiss two-cheese fondue – bread dipped in wine or kirsch before the cheese; and hot tubs, Carrom, the discovery that blancmange is almost unknown in France, the Larousse Encyclopaedia of 1923, ‘Arry Potter, princesses, pink and green soup and model helicopters. Epic, and…
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Visiting Geneva
Hidden costs of Swiss watches … first you have to breed. Also: spot the cheapskate romantics with the cable tie.