Dropsafe

Back in February I wrote: Currently I can switch Flash off. It’s a plugin, it’s a nuisance, it’s proprietary, it’s unbundled, but *because* of that it’s easy for me to shim or nuke the flash-rendering module and *poof* my webpages become a lot more efficient. When I added “ClickToFlash” to Safari, my daily morning ritual…

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wth is going on – so many people i know are diseased / bedridden… is this viral or is some bacterial thing going around? # Pork Trek: http://bit.ly/crK0n7 # Am hoping today is a good day to list stuff on Ebay; 10 days hence is a bank holiday… # @bubbva Welcome back to the land…

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via Rohan Pinto: "Run up to a complete stranger and say: 'Tag – You're It!' – and then run away." # Poll: Do you frequently benefit from knowing the location of friends via Latitude or other Geolocation services? http://bit.ly/bP1Ve9 # Geolocation of friends (#Latitude etc) is currently losing 11-nil http://twtpoll.com/r/s1g30o # @obscurebug Okay – that's…

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It may be heresy to the geolocation crowd, but what is more important to me is that I can communicate with my friends, rather than know where they are. I’ve registered for Latitude and a variety of others, but frankly geolocation is most useful to me on my phone so that it can tell me…

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Wednesday Morning Fun: Experiment with this google search: http://bit.ly/cRIvx4 # @newsbrooke You might be interested in playing around with http://bit.ly/cRIvx4 too… # The _simple_ way to implement RBAC – really, we swear! http://bit.ly/9BAomw #

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Blog: Musings on Spam http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4324 # MAMILs have competition: "OWLCRAP – old woman, lycra clad, red and puffing" http://bit.ly/9q3lDc # Slaughter-your-own farm for faith followers in Maryland. Fantastic read: http://bit.ly/d29cTH # Food Standards Agency "Working Effectively with Minority Ethnic Food Businesses" http://bit.ly/chAB1b – bizarre Govt document, but fun. # @ketan Go for it. In exchange:…

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Venison Sausage, Roast Elephant Garlic, and fried Shrooms, originally uploaded by alecmuffett. Utterly delicious; homemade bread, homegrown garlic. Shrooms were on knockdown at the local Waitrose, 35p or so.

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In one month I’ve had 1549 spam messages, all but a handful of which were caught automatically by Google; the conversion rate must be minuscule – somebody buying something due to spam is surely rather rare? – but from the spammer’s perspective the costs are equally minuscule, so the trade continues. Of course a lot…

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The more I look into the Garmin 705 the more I want to follow my own advice http://bit.ly/bUA9wE and get a bigger battery for my G1 # The BBC-killing-Beebplayer-Android-App FOIA request is stumbling on: BBC "not in a position to meet today's deadline" http://bit.ly/a0KW98 # Underquoted #Shakespeare "the hand of little employment hath the daintier…

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Watned: 17" (or similarly small) LCD monitor with DVI connection, compact footprint, does not suck but not too expensive. Suggestions? # @j0ni dude, all we have to sample is your posted cycle routes 😛 in reply to j0ni # purr, purr, against the dying of the light… # Blog: Suzi http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4321 # @dogsbodyorg go skate…

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Suzi was getting significantly more frail over the past three months, and although she was ambling around okay on Friday, yesterday she didn’t want to eat, and last night she stumbled over to the food bowl and didn’t want to get up, but just do the Landseer thing instead, still not eating. You know it’s…

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BBC's "Woman guilty of memorial sex act"-headline summary becomes much more pedestrian on click-thru http://bbc.in/aabPWz # Rise of the Mamils (middle-aged men in lycra) http://bbc.in/b4DVlW — so, tricyclers in tweeds would not count? # Russians to bulldoze science, destroy history: http://bit.ly/bCxHOG # If you are a Mac user and want to see a Ubuntu-GNOME trainwreck,…

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