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#BSidesLondon – TRACK 3 IS NOW OPEN – BOOKING SHEET UPSTAIRS, COME BOOK A SLOT AND TALK ABOUT ANYTHING. 30 MINS MAX. # #BSidesLondon – TRACK 3: Glyn Wintle on Open Rights Group, the British EFF – and Electronic Voting # #BSidesLondon Track 3 – Hearing how electronic voting nearly lost the SNP the Scottish…

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Think my next phone should be the Samsung Galaxy S2 – dual core, out soon, good spec. Any downsides, folks? http://bit.ly/gUKAna # #Tesla motors apparently have never heard about The Streisand Effect http://bit.ly/gfsNmw #TopGear # That's another 16 bags of rubble lined up for disposal, and probably another 20 or so to go. Need new…

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it's _so_ strange revisiting code i wrote 20 years ago and thinking "OMG WTF WAS I THINKING?" # @geografikaa Noooo – that's a new one on me, thanks! And, scary. # foreach my $bucket (keys %{$$belgium{"scores"}}, keys %{$$other{"scores"}}) { … } #beauty #perl # TIL: 167 exabytes was 1/3rd of the estimated total internet network…

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@ryanlrussell once and store it. the maths are quite fun – i will try to remember to blog it. # @ryanlrussell you can chuck a lot of it away if you're willing to do a few tens of millions of trial encryptions. # @ryanlrussell if yr lookup svc can do 3,000,000 cps per host &…

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pancakes for breakfast #boredwithporridge # @tomboa we seem to have spawned a slight meme # turn up the volume: not your average kitten – http://youtu.be/R1Sn18dfsOA # want: http://bit.ly/fvzVg5 # is your flange lonely? http://bit.ly/g8wmUZ # @nmeth park it offshore and use it as a data centre # Argh – http://on.wsj.com/gp2nvI – US Govt wants industry…

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@charlesarthur @EMadge It's only be _ironic_ if the entire Financial Services industry suddenly decided to move to Mac. # @charlesarthur @EMadge For reference on irony, Ed Byrne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg – poignancy required. # @jennyshaw Try these some day http://goo.gl/YfpSx – from bleargh to mostly awake in 5 minutes. # @charlesarthur @emadge Okay, I can see it…

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RT @BBCLauraK: Fascinating document of Treasury evidence – cutting immigration could cut growth http://goo.gl/KuWn6 # This is a surprise? # I really ought to hang a copy of this up in the gym changing room http://bit.ly/i0v8fQ # You know, I'm certain that I set my facebook settings to "always use HTTPS" – and yet somehow…

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Rehydration packs. Magic in a glass. Much happier now. # Now that I have my brain back due to rehydration packs, the caffeine-withdrawal hangover is kicking in. # Photoshop as a security risk permitting arbitrary code generation 😛 http://bit.ly/hmPqvq # New: On a particular form of perspective… http://bit.ly/gIby3D # This is epic. Via Bethsie: BBC…

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An English friend of mine tells the story of reviewing a book about the history of Russian Marxism for a major national newspaper here in the States. In the course of his review, he observed that G. V. Plekhanov was “the father of Russian Marxism.” Minutes before the issue closed, an obtuse sub-editor took it…

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Less than 4h sleep. Argh. # Have asked to defer my preso for #rdggeek until next month, am deeply annoyed at this bug. # @charlesarthur You meand http://bit.ly/an7qSF ? # Cancelling all appointments… # Cisco starting to act like Sun? #> Cisco shuts down Flip video camera business – http://goo.gl/qV1lv #

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Yay! RT @proactivepaul: Here's the video (14mins38) from the #LinkedGov #HackCamp on 9/10 April 2011 http://cot.ag/fwUg2f # Have bought 2x 16Gb SanDisk Cruzer thumbdrives -black, cheap, tough- for £13 ea; now to try make #Virtualbox use raw VDI partitions on them # @tomscott Posted a video of your minty yoghourt rocket yet? I hear it…

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Some telemarketer’s autodialler called me up, and when I picked up: “Please listen carefully, this is not an advertisement, this is a public information announcement. Are you in debt… ?” …and then it tried to connect me to a debt-management company – and it didn’t get through. So it sent me to voicemail. Big mistake.…

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