• The Perfect Martini

    My previous MO for a very very dry vodka (or gin) martini was: freeze the vodka (or gin) chill the vermouth (noilly prat, or dolin) clean martini glass add 1 tsp vermouth to glass and swill to coat the glass surface in its entirety, then chuck or recycle the remaining liquid vermouth top up with…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-13

    Interesting essay "20 reasons why it's kicking off everywhere" http://bbc.in/dRLytW – I don't agree with all of it, but thoughtprovoking #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-12

    ARGH: Since recently, #Facebook ONLY shows you status updates of SOME friends in your timeline. Scroll to bottom "Edit Options" to change. # Nokia will solve their smartphone strategy by outsourcing it to Windows7? Why not just let MS buy them, instead? Bye bye Maemo, Symbian? # @richard_hughes Thanks! Have submitted a comment, now to…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-11

    Truly Epic: Kitten Block – Firefox plugin replacing DailyMail / DailyExpress pages with Tea And Kittens website – http://goo.gl/mLoGL # Maybe I can finally get around to reviewing this crypto paper today. Yeah, right… # "Today’s sophisticated cybercriminals require a sophisticated approach to network security" http://goo.gl/icYS6 # NO THEY BLOODY DON'T # The point of…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-10

    @DavidAllenGreen "the human condition", maybe? # Greenhouse Frame: http://flic.kr/p/9gUk1y # Sympathetic to PR #voting but my issue with AV is the 2nd-chance votes come only from they who 1st-voted for the minority party; ie: nutters #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-09

    There appears to be a new search engine #heapr – may be bogus, seems to advertise itself virally via XSS using #sunsilk http://bit.ly/i0eCYR # "Alec, 191 connections changed jobs in 2010" #linkedin #youdontsay #cantthinkwhatbroughthaton # Somewhere at CERN… | My[confined]Space – http://goo.gl/Q1Xn0 # Reading #Assange http://bit.ly/eoZgq5 Hurtig stmt; Prosecutor Ny wanted her own policeman at…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-08

    ee, when I wert doin SIEM we 'ad t'carry our own syslog files, uphill, both ways, over t'network, feed 'm through t'mincer and grep t'result # @dme Perhaps you'd like to respin it for me? 🙂 # In a pub with Colleen, who recently shared a camel with my other friend Helen… # @BelindaBG @colleensbiz…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-07

    Valentine's Day. Elementary School. I once skipped the "you give cards to everyone" thing. I skipped cards entirely. There was chaos. # New: My "Similar To" gets better and better, but of course I'm happiest for being similar to @webmink 🙂 http://bit.ly/hPutC2 # RT @tiffanyshlain: Twitter=I need to sleep, FB=I slept. FourSquare = I'm sleeping…

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  • My “Similar To” gets better and better, but of course I’m happiest for being similar to @webmink 🙂

    Apparently I’m similar to Simon and The Three Tims! This is better than chinese fortune cookies: …but, but, I’m… I’m younger than these guys.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-06

    Bah – need coffee # @NewShoot i _do_ hope that pun was intentional. # @jennyshaw "Bank bonuses" are the politics of envy, spurred perhaps by Matt 21:12; the sums are just chicken feed compared to the deficit. # @jennyshaw More relevant is that the rich put effort into paying _no_ taxes due to disproportionate tax…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-05

    @adrianco Not yet… 🙂 # Contact lens trial. This time with the correct prescription. Everything looks huge. # Reading #nanog – some people think that a FBI warrant/subpoena on a internet provider would be enough to get them to disconnect from the net # @jennyshaw @JohnSentamu Bank Bonus Culture? As opposed to the deficit or…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-02-04

    @JocelynKirby I had to go hunting for it from your profile, but it's interesting, and I appreciate the lack of Flash # Funny: if you go to the #Cryptome doc archive, the "SE […] Julian Assange Sex Allegations" hyperlink has a embedded (tracking?) cookie # "Proposal for cyber war rules of engagement" – GCHQ must…

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