Dropsafe

On March 30th I mailed the BBC Trust thusly: Hello, I’m reading a Wired Magazine article, specifically the paragraph stating: “The Trust has today written to the BBC Executive to advise them that we will be carrying out an assessment of their plans to deliver content via dedicated smartphone applications. The Trust’s decision follows representations…

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Dropsafe: how to cook the perfect soft-boiled duck egg http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3917 # "well-hung parliament" – argh. http://bit.ly/8Zucg7 # Damn – JourneyCheck website for SouthWestTrains seems to have been killed – that was … essential to preserve sanity! # #opendis … okay, but would be better if all the panelists were here … http://twitpic.com/1e3k0x # I get…

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Good morning #debill ! This is probably a good time to point folk to http://www.torproject.org/ – popular, free tool for internet anonymity # @kevinmarks irony: "This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" in reply to kevinmarks # Amusing. #Yahoo #Upcoming is barfing because it thinks…

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I wrote about a new method for improving OSX performance by means of a dedicated swap partition done right – there’s a bunch of misinformation out there on the net, but I’ve tried to avoid repeating the mistakes made elsewhere – and… people requested an update. So… I now admin two machines that use this…

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… a ubuntu VPS, mysql, php, django, three wordpress instances and a mine, is that it drives out of one any notion of what one was actually going to blog about. piffle. perhaps some wine will help.

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if you can see this, blogging has resumed and hopefully everything is semi-integrated once more. but there are changes under the hood, so to speak. all will be revealed, soonish. 🙂

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@ceri long time since i've been "that" alec muffett except to people of a certain age 🙂 in reply to ceri # #Facebook caved over #CEOP http://bit.ly/9cnAmE – expect election crowing from Home Secretary # @williamheath so in what way is a face-saving middle-ground – enabling the Govt to crow about a groundless success –…

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@ceri long time since i've been "that" alec muffett except to people of a certain age 🙂 in reply to ceri # #Facebook caved over #CEOP http://bit.ly/9cnAmE – expect election crowing from Home Secretary # @williamheath so in what way is a face-saving middle-ground – enabling the Govt to crow about a groundless success –…

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fantastic read: RT fanf: http://dotat.at/:/FP59F – Hollywood, please stop the teal and orange madness! # @katzmandu: mailman is smart # neighbour just dropped off a few spare duck & hen eggs! yay! # in case you missed the reviews of uranium ore: http://tinyurl.com/6a3wu4 # I support #Facebook regards the #CEOP panic button; why should a…

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I finally bit the bullet and for £245 bought a Toshiba NB200-13L from Amazon, to augment my compute capability; it seemed wise to buy a model which had a little age on it – other people have solved most of the problems you’ll encounter installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. Experience so far is good,…

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@jimfinnis patches! we want patches my precious! 🙂 in reply to jimfinnis # nb200-13l just arrived, now truing to make a #ubuntu liveUSB stick # amazed how dragging bookmarks around in firefox can lock up gnome, & since the x-server is unkillable by default in karmic, hang the system # —> prepping to switch crypticide.com…

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