• Dropsafe Reading Level: 24% Basic, 75% Intermediate…

    Must try harder, but in which direction? ( try “Advanced Search Options” at www.google.com )

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  • SECURITY – iTunes Phishing Attack – how does this one work?

    A friend just got hit with this: From: iTunes Store Date: 21 December 2010 05:30 Subject: iTunes account may be suspended. Dear iTunes Customer, it is possible that your account password has been stolen, 4 different IP addresses have been used to login to your account within the last 24 hours. Please visit the bellow…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-21

    @marcwrogers Cook one, really, it's not that bad. See http://goo.gl/h1pxL for Suet recipe # I look fwd to the world's first Open-Source/Creative-Commons court case. What license it will be under? Where's the repo? #wikileaks # The point is not to jail #Assange not yet. The point is to bankrupt #WikiLeaks first. # @marcwrogers So bring…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-20

    Today I shall be making steamed figgy pudding. Due to snow I regret I can't deliver to them as want it brought to them http://bit.ly/f4VV0j # "Steam for three hours." http://bit.ly/eWFLBi # New Kitchen Chez Muffett: http://bit.ly/eZmeX8 – still have decorating, radiator, etc to do. # King Edwards (School) Cookery book online http://bit.ly/eYCpKE – found…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-19

    #uksnow RG27 8/10 – Bother, I was hoping we'd miss it today. Xmas shopping to get. # Three useful twitterfeeds for folk in my area – @m4updates @m3updates @m25updates # #uksnow RG27 7/10 – dying back, smaller flakes # @ramtopsrac I did – but the thing I could not get in Fleet is only available…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-18

    @shaver Aw, cute! And the PlayMobile website flashed up a warning that I might have hijacked a session! Twofer! # Mmm – grilled emmenthal over salami on toast. #newovensmells # @mikkohypponen Yeah, but with the pigs it's payback for bacon. # RT @doctorow: A cloud computer is like a regular computer, except you have to…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-17

    Bored? Open an 80×24 Terminal and telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl and watch a movie… # @alistairhann A commenter suggests that all the pins may be in one particular connector, but will try ur idea when I can find my AVO # @shaver Reassuring; have got a lighted cover for someone else for Xmas 🙂 # @bubbva…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-16

    screaming headache can no longer be lack of sleep, is not dehydration, so must be caffeine withdrawal? we shall see… # Espresso. No more headache. Hummm… # And today's Christmas Advent Calendar chocolate is…. ummm… possibly a festive penguin? 🙂 # Epic heathrobinson/rubegoldberg via Darren Reed – have seen some similar, but there are a…

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  • SOLVED (mostly) #Kindle 3 instability, crashing, battery failure, losing charge: it’s the leather cover!

    I wrote up my problems here, and you can read the comments to follow the developments and line of thinking. I have the following symptoms: 1) My Kindle frequently crashes upon wakeup from sleep I flick and release the power switch there is a long, long pause then a green LED shows and then the…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-15

    sometimes, just sometimes, the forces can balance each other and you as the fulcrum can briefly feel no weight at all. bliss. # Will whomever is playing OMD's "If You Leave…" on loop in my head, please flip the track. I really don't need to hear it again… # …and tonight's advent calendar chocolate is…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-13

    #Kindle crash drama develops: Amazon call asking me to remove it from the matching, non-lighted leather case, possibly causing short-circuit # The powerful may howl, but only because we are learning the truth http://goo.gl/nBD13 # if nothing else, read the opening paras #wikileaks #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-12-12

    And so begins the potentially 6h wait for the cooker to arrive. Have to wait until next week to plumb it in, though 🙁 # New: To the guy in Hart Leisure Centre Men's Changing Room with your junk hanging out… http://bit.ly/hliMnf #

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