Dropsafe

latest cut of Mac #chromium has a buggy transparent bookmark toolbar. Oh, poop. # There are perhaps few things in the world more therapeutic than a sledgehammer and a brick wall. In fact, I can't think of any… # #Grauniad gagged from reporting *Parliament proceedings* due to legal gag; Do plaintiffs believe nobody will find…

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Gotta love that safe, secure, reliable cloud storage. http://is.gd/4euxb via @adriana872 and @webmink # http://www.oracle.com could really use the Sun firewall-and-web-hosting team. "An error occurred while processing your directive" or whatnot… # What the world needs is an open-source mainframe emulator? http://bit.ly/ia2hi # How not to run a knowledge-worker-based company: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-10-11/ #

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DIY Party Political Speeches: http://www.speechbreaker.co.uk/ # one thing about #themineproject that I'm very proud of: we're re-establishing that Open Source is something you "make", not "vend" #

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Many cryppies will know Hal Finney http://finney.org/~hal/ — but *everyone* who is human should read http://is.gd/44HAm <— READ THIS # @mroesch have you left the UK now? It's gone sunny all of a sudden… 🙂 in reply to mroesch # This is too true, was experiencing it the other day: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/ – Google is letting…

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if you led a committee that created a syndication format for blog posts, people might think you're a social media expert :-> 😛 # @glynmoody PaulLeyland told me old programmer maxim: "Provide for Zero, One, or an Infinite Number of any resource" – it still holds. in reply to glynmoody # @doctorow might wanna add…

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@mroesch gosh marty, you're as famous as steve jobs 🙂 in reply to mroesch # @mroesch The usual solution is to find a pub 🙂 in reply to mroesch # Advice wanted: seeking SIM-only PAYG contract for cellphone for @bbart when he's visiting UK. Ideally no expiry on minutes. Suggestions? # @wrwalke if coming to…

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just got Chill Pill speakers on recommendation of @webmink; not hifi but v.nice. http://bit.ly/w0AhJ # just had moo.com print me a bunch of "ex libris" stickers; may help reduce the outflow of books that i forget about. # If you were born and raised at a computer technical conference, which conference would you choose? USENIX?…

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Hootney Wotney posting updated, full 1m30 track playback enabled http://is.gd/3SHR5 # @lbridenne76 That goes for managers, too, right ? in reply to lbridenne76 # funny: http://bit.ly/sK3H1 # http://is.gd/3SIFz – at home, chocolate coffee beans, and no; of course my mother is hybrid CoE and Methodist, so prob doesn't care so much. # @DeirdreS not to…

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After a DM from @johndodds I retweeted his suggestion that my Midnight Chavbird recording “has monster dance-mix written all over it” – and lo! my former colleague and fellow biker Charlie de Courcy has produced: Hootney Wotney: Chav [Update: full track is 1:30 – fixed] This text will be replaced Bloody fantastic! Anyone wanna try…

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@johndodds thinks this has "monster dance-mix" written all over it. http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3492 in reply to johndodds # @ceri i may have one on route, will let you know in reply to ceri # This is obvious-in-retrospect-scary: http://is.gd/3Qv9C Wireless network modded to see through walls. Via @nicksdjohnson # @katzmandu depends how large your bed is. in reply…

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Via a couple of tweets, I ran into this blog posting by Matthew Taylor of the Royal Society of Arts: The internet is neither neutral nor inherently liberating. It operates in the context of existing social conventions and power structures. Its impact is real but often subtle and unexpected. Yesterday we had a fascinating event…

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