Dropsafe

#Amazon UK have just given me £2 credit to use for downloadable MP3s – Tell me what to buy! 🙂 # So what's the tag for today? #budget ? #ukbudget ? #swingeingeconomicmeltdown ? # #iplayer seems to have died completely – is there anywhere license-fee payers can go to see the reasons for outages? #…

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So: many years ago I was visiting my parents when my father suddenly decided that he needed to have a talk with me, whilst my mother wasn’t in the room. “Alec” — he said, in tones that resonated with long-distant and fruitless attempts at ‘birds-and-bees’ talks — “…you’ve been with that company [Sun] for several…

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Homemade beans on homemade toast. Not exactly food-porn, but very yummy. # The booming call of the Hampshire Post-Rammer echoes softly between the brick sunlit former council-houses … # Daily Weirdness – the Tour de France can be argued to have been caused as a side effect of the Dreyfus Affair http://bit.ly/a9013r # Well, I'm…

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up since 0420 – solstice tomorrow; do yourself a favour and wake up to a sunrise for once – rise is ~0445, enough light to see from 0400 # #iPlayer on #Chrome on #Ubuntu hangs; Chrome launches conflicting #AdobeAir installer/dpkg, due to #TweetDeck install. Remove TweetDeck. # Soon he\'ll be heading off to college and…

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Dropsafe: Why I am having mint and black tea with honey… http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4116 # Back in the Firefox days, none of the newspapers gave a hoot; now using Chrome, HuffPo, Independent are all thrusting extensions at me! # Worst SEO Link ever? http://tinyurl.com/blgnoj Probably not, but it's a contender for most wasteful… # Listening to the…

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The story so far, let’s see: last night: 1400 harvest about 4lbs of rhubarb 2000 gym 2100 pointed and pointless discussion with local chav re: his road-positioning and dubious overtakes on his 50cc Aprilia race-rep with L-plates 2130 home 2245 bed this morning: 0515 awake 0540 feed cat 0600 pot-up courgette seedlings and rearrange gardening…

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So far, this year: Volcanoes, Vuvuzelas, Oilspills and Coalitions. Review of the year in December is gonna be dense. # @richmarr Hast thou not heard? The XML which is not _true_ XML, is not XML, and thus it has been standardised. #ihateobtrusivexml in reply to richmarr # Just spent 5m trying to convince a local…

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Weird: First time ever I remember both a programming problem, and solution, that I worked out in a dream. Solved with Python tuples. # Dropsafe: The Southern Electric Direct Debit Racket http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4105 # #tomtom slashes LIVE prices; maybe they worked out _why_ I bought a Garmin? http://bit.ly/dqFDvS # @nmeth Ditto – I got mine lowered…

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Last week something crashed into the great vacuum-cleaner of the solar system, Jupiter – and some guy managed to video it, so we know that it happened. And the question on planetary-physicists collective minds is: why wasn’t a sodding great mushroom cloud generated? Compare: Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the 2009 impact In a Google Wave –…

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Yes, Direct Debit is great when you hate paperwork, as I do; what’s not great is when the vendor takes a fixed amount per month that’s set too high. Witness Southern Electric; they’ve been debiting me £70 per month for the past year or so, and I reckon that’s rather too high, so I sent…

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Rape survivor, now police trauma victim counsellor, must conform to Daily Mail's feminine dress code for article, photo http://bit.ly/aYdA1i # v- there's a lot more to the previous tweet than that, but distilling a single tweet to catch the eye, is hard. # @chris_bloke …but it's not just their attitude, but also the shock value,…

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@chris_bloke it's somebody's google appengine app, gone awry. in reply to chris_bloke # @chris_bloke DM me the URL? in reply to chris_bloke # Bikers: the best £95 I ever spent was on a Knox back protector, the biggest one they had: http://bit.ly/aao5eP – Do yourself a favour 🙂 # Pinhole-Camera HD Video – cute: http://bit.ly/cQXtaq…

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