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  • Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity by Shanna Germain — Kickstarter # Currently $3,700 of $8,000

    2012/08/24 22:51:05 BST

    Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity by Shanna Germain — Kickstarter.

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    business fun
  • Comparing Pixar’s “Brave” to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    2012/08/24 22:36:04 BST

    Joss Whedon said something about Buffy along the lines of: The point of Buffy is that it takes questions of teenager-hood and writes them large: Why is High School like Hell? Why is my boyfriend acting so strangely after I’ve slept with him? … …in which case the resonant subplot of Brave is “my mother…

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    fun
  • Excitement! Have booked to go see my first 3D Movie!

    2012/08/24 15:35:10 BST

    Not done one before – mostly out of grief to do with spectacles, but now have contacts as an alternative and will go see “Brave”. Cross fingers it works.

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    fun personal
  • Nexus home button and spacebar on keyboard. – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

    2012/08/24 13:43:17 BST

    So it’s not just me. Does anyone else have this problem where you are in the middle of typing and fat finger syndrome has you press the home button instead of the space bar? Obviously causing you to drop to the home menu and possibly lose any work you were doing ( like writing an…

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    hardware
  • “The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way” #GuessWho #MyOpinion

    2012/08/24 11:34:57 BST

    BBC News – Reaction: Sun publishes Prince Harry naked photos. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London “I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial…

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    miscellaneous ranting
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-08-24

    2012/08/24 06:00:00 BST

    @williamheath I think I have proposed a novel argument in the last section of http://t.co/EzHBDybU # Lest we forget: Prince Charles was roasted for underage drinking / a Cherry Brandy: http://t.co/ognBDuMq – #PrinceHarry is normal for today # Rule #1 of buying a coffee at #GoogleCampus Gently push the TV cameras out of the way…

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  • And the crypto talk of the year award goes to… #mustread #reddit

    2012/08/23 14:30:18 BST

    http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/yo7zi/and_the_crypto_talk_of_the_year_award_goes_to/ Click the link to the PDF at the top…

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    fun miscellaneous ranting security
  • Today’s #Dilbert – #SECURITY MUST READ

    2012/08/23 10:45:19 BST

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    fun security
  • Final: Evidence submitted to Committee re: the Draft Communications Data Bill #CCDP

    2012/08/23 09:47:17 BST

    Thanks to Mike R for kicking me about the formatting. Date 23 August 2012 Qualifications In response to the call for written evidence on the Communications Data Bill, I submit the following: My name is Alec Muffett. I have worked in Information Technology since 1988, and I specialise in system and network security. Notably for…

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    censorship and interception key postings networking openrightsgroup politics and law security
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-08-23

    2012/08/23 06:00:00 BST

    RT @bensummers: I feel very productive when I write Java, but only when measured in lines of code per hour. # @bensummers s/Java/any language other than Perl/go; # @kfalconspb welcome. #

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  • Revised (Final?) Draft of Muffett response to #CCDP / Communications Data Bill! Will post in morning. Comments?

    2012/08/23 00:20:00 BST

    UPDATE: Replaced by this

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    censorship and interception key postings openrightsgroup politics and law security writing
  • Where Identity meets Humanity

    2012/08/22 21:56:53 BST

    something you know = a password something you have = a (third-party) credential something you are = a relationship Dump the middle one. Copyright (c) Alec Muffett, 2012 🙂

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    identity miscellaneous ranting security
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