Dropsafe

@joshcorman Tempting. How should one get in touch? # "Yes, of course, because firewalls should be _behind_ servers" http://bit.ly/fuBBT6 # someone plz explain defence in depth to thz ppl # @stephenfry Being a dual-national/born overseas, I'm British but can't claim to be English.I suppose I have to be a Villa supporter, instead # @katzmandu @bubbva…

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Awww… I’m touched. I’d like to thank my parents, my friends, my cats … 🙂

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http://www.police.uk – I love it, exactly what we need to defang the fear of crime a bit. Now where's the "download" button? # …and I can have my local police reports in Cymraeg! Yay! # I wonder if this is all going to be used to create an enormous IP geolocation database for the police…

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Crawley Town FC. vs: Manchester United. Away match. I'm not a great footie fan but I love that this occasionally happens. # @dgwbirch Considered going to that, please tweet a lot. 🙂 #bcbl4 # Eye exam. Anaesthetic. Dilator. My pupils are like something out of a manga comic. # One advantage of these pupil-dilation compounds:…

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Tagliatelle in Alfredo Sauce with Prawns. Surprisingly quick snack. #

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I think my favourite word of the past few months has been "enormity", in its proper sense. So many uses… # Guys: when you've had your passwords hacked and send out an "reset" e-mail, don't include a URL due to risk of phishing. #SourceForge # Listening to @ruskin147's history of social networking. The Well. Running…

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The more I read reports like http://bit.ly/i6HDIH the more I see #DNS as a weak spot in the "routes around censorship" argument #Egypt # @chris_bloke So does the Web, and that's the problem. Somewhere in evolution, people have forgotten how to decentralise properly # @evgenymorozov Have you a cite for that? It sounds like such…

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YouTube – Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal – http://goo.gl/DUFq6 #SWPL # New: Which Meaningless Generational Stereotype Category are You? http://bit.ly/gIA28m # #uksnow RG27 2/10 # @ReprieveUK Isn't the current president's motto "Yes we can." :-/ # If you have a magazine subscription on a #Kindle what happens to the old edition when…

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birthdates table: greatest generation 1901-1924 cite silent generation 1925-1945 cite baby boom 1943?-1960 or 1946?-1964 cite cite generation jones 1954-1965 cite generation x / baby bust 1965?-1982 cite echo boom 1982?-1995 cite generation y 1985?-2002? cite generation z 1992?-current? cite translation table: “early *” = *2 “mid *” = *5 “late *” = *7 So…

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@girlonetrack Yes, about to die. Especially if it goes "tick tick tick. whirr." Backup now. # @girlonetrack Sigh of relief then. Cool explanatory video here, with open hard drive: http://youtu.be/XwYSdD4fyRU # @His_Grace I wonder how I'd do by Devine's metric; I'm far from "religiously illiterate" but I don't believe in any god. Ditto (eg) Clegg?…

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@cloudsigma Which orgs chase cloud providers getting them to expose their DC Ops for benefit of all customers? CSA? Is there a Cloud-Zagat? # Reading e-mails about IP route validation using PKI; sometimes I wonder why they don't just chuck out IP and go back to X.25… # @bubbva blog the recipe? 🙂 # an…

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I think, this week, I should start messing around with IPv6 at home. Aside from anything else, the IPv6 maillists feel like my youth, again. # Burns' Night, tomorrow. Freezer full of discount haggis, Wednesday. # @cloudsigma So that a disaster in some random part of the world can lose all your data instead? #…

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