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Happy New Year Chocolate Sentiments Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Apt.

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Scene: chocolate shop in Chelsea; a Royal Mail postman walks in… Postman: Ah – [indicating my bike and then me] – a Bromptonista! Me: Yes, and you? Postman: No, I’m a Birdyist. [beat pause] Me: Come, friend, let us settle our differences and wage war upon the Dahonites! [exeunt, with hilarity]

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Ivan Ristic arguing for use of EV certificates as a security measure, after rant about users being confused by cert acceptance dialogues… #

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Propaganda and Ad Posters of the 1940s http://bit.ly/5hZNTI – interesting and shocking # Blessed be the mobile phone users and those called the children of iPod – http://bit.ly/61NJxl # Reading: "I’ve Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy – Prof Daniel Solove, GWU Law School http://bit.ly/NtYuE # Understanding Your Personal Information’s Value =…

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Old: Jamie Zawinski: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. New: Alec Muffett: All social network status-updates are moribund until they are replaced by a Twitter plugin. Then they become irrelevant. Goodbye, LinkedIn – I may never have to log…

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Hollywood rebooting reboots. I blame Windows: http://bit.ly/4y5YOz # New blog post: how to think clearly about terrorism, terrorists and bombs http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3740 # Cycle decisions: CarraDry City Folder Brompton Bag, or #Brompton 'C' Bag. Decisions, decisions; currently have S-bag: http://bit.ly/6RnWPB # computer recumbent bike by steve roberts http://bit.ly/6hECfs – i remember a documentary about this years…

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Hollywood rebooting reboots. I blame Windows: http://bit.ly/4y5YOz # New blog post: how to think clearly about terrorism, terrorists and bombs http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3740 # Cycle decisions: CarraDry City Folder Brompton Bag, or #Brompton 'C' Bag. Decisions, decisions; currently have S-bag: http://bit.ly/6RnWPB # computer recumbent bike by steve roberts http://bit.ly/6hECfs – i remember a documentary about this years…

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I am still reading around this before shooting my mouth off, but on its own what Glyn’s annotated displays breathtaking ministerial lack-of-understanding of how technology works; the media industry lobbyists have been doing too good a job – apparently having an open Wifi network puts you at risk of child porn? Yes I can see…

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Occasionally someone will somehow mistake me for Bruce Schneier and assume that because I have a deep understanding of computer, host and network security, that somehow I can extemporise a lecture about terrorism and the government response to it. The thing is: unlike Bruce I don’t make a habit of talking about this shit, so…

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Do you remember back when Firefox was *fast*? just took 2m to boot on a moderately loaded machine. Argh. # @pfuetz alas vanilla OSX. only 5..6 extensions too. in reply to pfuetz # #Fleshmob Berlin Airport: naked protest against xray backscatter / strip-search bodyscanner machines. YouTube http://bit.ly/8tnqSB #

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@ChrisGerhard that sort of thinking without user consideration leads to XML in reply to ChrisGerhard #

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