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Just back from Mark Thomas at Basingstoke Haymarket, and chance encounters with former colleagues… # @markRbowyer Was surprised not to see you there. MacFarlane was. Gig was good, if heavy on the emotional bait-and-switch technique. # @markRbowyer Also was tied with a Palestinian co-op olive oil tasting. Crit on both sides, but the story of…

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@adrianco Gould NP-1 at Aberystwyth would disconnect all Pinkbook ethernet users and/or reboot if console was used while up. Watchdogs. # Another 17 sacks of loose rubble filled, and that's the last of the loose stuff. It is now permitted to rain in Hartley Wintney. # It may be a federal offence to break your…

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@newsbrooke …and for science. They've not cited _which_ street, nor the ambient illumination. # @newsbrooke They have to build it up now so that there's more dramatic contrast when they're attacking her and William in a few years. # Normally references to glossy, thick manes of hair are reserved for International Horse Of The Year…

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The proper perspective on Cloud Computing: http://goo.gl/VGc0Z # @CliveMKing Funny, but I wish it wasn't quite so easily demolishable. # @JamesFirth @palfrey So you're saying 4 of our political parties are indistinguishable except for the venue of party conference? # @chrisgerhard Because the graphic conflates location (party) with what you drink (policy) & says that…

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This week's Security Drinking Game: take a drink every time you hear "Sony" and "Advanced Persistent Threat"/APT in the same sentence. # & RT @hvcco: double shot if they say "Anonymous", and chug the bottle if they say PSN crashed due to Olympic ticket sales (BBC this AM!) # cafetière. yerba maté. 🙂 # New:…

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People still send letters – but they send even more e-mail; I strongly believe that skills of “word processing” and the “formal letter” will further decline, and that the employees of the future will at school no longer be taught the difference between “Yours sincerely” and “Yours faithfully”, but instead the difference between “Reply” and…

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France & Italy want to re-establish border controls "when necessary"? Goodbye Schengen… http://bit.ly/2VlbYc # @wrwalke Agreed, although it's not the rudest song on YouTube by far… # @e3i5 Tell me that's not your thesis ? # @wrwalke Wanna learn ASL ? http://bit.ly/hiJZju # @e3i5 "You should do it in the cloud, something reliable like EC2"…

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Google's "define:word" functionality seems to have died. Is it intentional? eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Afig # @geoffarnold Quite bizzare – I just reset safari and it still fails. Not a cookie issue. Maybe "they" are proxying me and broke it for me? # Google dictionary lookup is broken (for me?) http://twitpic.com/4p9uh7 # @chrisgerhard @geoffarnold One can't help but…

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@roomcandygames Yes, but that's nothing like the variety, colour and multi-sensual surround experience of the real thing. 😛 # Morning educational fascinating reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Heeled_Jack # For anyone fretting about iPhones & location-monitoring, this old post may offer a simple solution http://goo.gl/C30fH http://goo.gl/pnjGD # You've gotta ask whether this is a Guinness viral marketing campaign, or…

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@stevelord very cute! I'll check first whether Synergy is running native rather than X on the OSX machine, which would seem to be simpler… # @k4thybrown What would be required? # Many in Oxford is giving SPARCstation LX and SPARCclassic X free to good homes. DM me if interested in links. # I think that…

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@Beaker Your point's pretty clear. I just think it's wrong. # Watching "Whicker's War" to make sense of Anzio after reading http://goo.gl/fwhkL -my father was part of http://goo.gl/jbMbJ (Br.X.I on map) # Am looking for a modern, supported version of x2x for OSX – software kvm re-sharing mouse & kbd only, via network – any…

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@glynwintle @runasand @timesjoanna Well that's one of my favourite topics, and am well-versed. Shall we meet up? DM me with contact detail.. # @Beaker Proactive defence against cloud-computing-criticism, much? "#Cloudcomputing is more resilient than hardware" #eatwords #yesiknow # @Beaker "…and if the gods smite us it's because we haven't prayed hard enough." #inotherwords # @Beaker…

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