Dropsafe

penny arcade, on the money: http://bit.ly/9Bvf40 # Have chainsawed tree stumps. Probably need to sharpen or replace chain, now. Drinking homemade mint tea with honey. # not a good evening to spend in the garden – the maybugs are out http://bit.ly/inmTQ # #IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook is part of what North Korea provides to…

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@bubbva will pick you up one, just in case… 🙂 in reply to bubbva # several days away, purging unread crap from mbox and getting back to normal… # Dropsafe: Atholl Brose – Oh My God It's So Yummy! (recipe included) http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4092 #

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This evening I made Atholl Brose – and, oh my god this is good stuff; forget drinks like Bailey’s and all that artificial crap, this blows them away. The recipe is on the Wikipedia page, but to paraphrase: The oatmeal brose is prepared by steeping a volume of porridge oats overnight in three times as…

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Friend's Reith Lecture Crit: "Tuned in to R4 this morning. I believe I just heard the Astronomer Royal use the word leveraged. As a verb." # I'm flying through my bottle of #Marmite XO way faster than usual; I hope they keep making the stuff … # While we're on food, a quick plug for…

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.@chris_bloke is there any other way to live, other than with the consequences of one's actions? One can remediate, but never undo… # @jennyshaw works for me – http://search.twitter.com/advanced in reply to jennyshaw #

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Listening to Climate Change campaigners on Radio 4, saying that democracy needs to be suspended to protect us from ourselves # Wow – climate change advocate talking about the need for "dozens" of new nuclear power stations, and that people won't like them being built # Hearing praise heaped upon Chinese government for their low-carbon…

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If #DavidLaws has a #spouse and can't claim housing expenses, does that mean cohabiting folk may claim upcoming married-couple tax breaks? # @ruskin147 I suspect that-freed of the daily newspaper cycle drag-that's how it is now. No more waiting for comment. #internettime #yeahbaby in reply to ruskin147 # Topless rockstar pic unlikely to be hacked/posted…

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lost, loved and missed, originally uploaded by alecmuffett. from a local tree…

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Geeks gotta love today's Matt cartoon: http://bit.ly/cpty5r # It's friday. If you love dogs and/or need a dose of teh happy, you'll enjoy this: http://bit.ly/92V7D4 # bwahahahahahahahahah http://bit.ly/9wilMV – and the X.500 people can still shut up, right now… # Dan Brown's going to get a book out of this, alas… http://bit.ly/aTvxRf # Apparently you…

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Anybody else noticed the uptick in "#CCTV Cameras Were Essential To The Resolution Of _THIS_ Crime" news stories? Can't think why. #sarcasm # @joshuatopolsky regards the "Continuous Client" http://bit.ly/9poRYr – have you never seen a #SunRay or other #ThinClient #

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I just remapped my CAPS LOCK to be Control on OSX! See "look and feel" @ http://bit.ly/dzHNHb – now have 2 Ctrl keys, good for transition! # Woman's Hour on R4 about to launch into "Social Networks are Linked to Loneliness" – no word whether the pitch is "cause" or "cure" # @pfuetz first episode:…

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@chrisgerhard take the triplet – weight training. 🙂 in reply to chrisgerhard # @r4today How will James Harding keep the paywalled #Times as "part of the Twitter conversation" ? If opened a crack, it's wide open. in reply to r4today # @r4today If Times paywall is to keep "window shoppers" out, but "serious readers" will…

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