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@adriana872’s best non-caff tea evar
Something I learned from Adriana at the weekend: take 1 stick of lemongrass, dice it into small chunks and steep in a teapot with boiling water for 5 minutes. Yields excellent, fragrant tea, a great pick-me-up; the lemongrass may seem a tad expensive but you can refill the pot many times (like, even a day…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-21
Chromium on OSX is becoming surprisingly usable: http://bit.ly/bNmXk # Troy Kennedy Martin obit (mp3) http://is.gd/3weH3 – via @markborkowski and de-reffed from iTunes #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-19
Read this #BofA #BankOfAmerica disaster story http://is.gd/3pWXc – note final paragraphs… # http://is.gd/3pWXc California has criminalized attorneys taking payment towards helping loan-modification, inhibits access to legal advice #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18
how one project deals with code submission requirements / licensing : http://bit.ly/1pQyvE # #GoogleFriendConnect munges my icon to add a google logo. This rather defeats the point of the QR-code. #fail #google # cat taking a improvised shower http://bit.ly/QagwG – love it. must be warm water? # Britain's postal-code database online at Wikileaks; waiting for…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-17
@mathiasbaert scissors. you win. in reply to mathiasbaert # this makes me feel that the FCC do not know the difference between "indecent" and "obscene" : http://is.gd/3lDje # @bensummers cf: my Enterprise-grade HA-coffee with diverse routes to 2 separate machines plus a manual backup with grinder and oil burner. in reply to bensummers # An…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-16
eel ploot bo coop oncor oon fwah. mehrd. # @dlacher try a computer. hamburgers lack decent MPEG codecs. in reply to dlacher # snorcl: ENOPURPLE http://bit.ly/OCvos # The French National Assembly has passed a draft law that would allow illegal downloaders to be thrown off the net http://is.gd/3jqOI # @bbart got soaked walking back from…
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Best put-down of the day…
Ivan Krstić What you’re proposing amounts to a great deal of complex and complicated cryptography. If it were implemented tomorrow, it would take years for the most serious of implementation errors to get weeded out, and some years thereafter for proper interoperability in corner cases. In the meantime, mobile device makers would track you down…
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How Firewalls Fail: porn ^H^H^H^H^H fishfingers
perfect. Panic at the London Evening Standard yesterday where the theatre critic Henry Hitchings filed his review of Lolita at the National Theatre, only to learn that no one at HQ could locate his copy. The panic starts early there – 5am – with production staff looking at the clock and imploring him to file…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-15
@ketan i want trafemark on that term :_) in reply to ketan # @ketan Even trademark on that term 🙂 [ vurl=VanityURL a superclass of URL-shorten/lengthening from #themineproject http://is.gd/3gj8T ] in reply to ketan # @ketan go for it, though the occasional associated plug for the mine project wouldn't hurt 🙂 in reply to ketan…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-13
ALERT Follow @laureenh for breaking story: #BoA trying evict family of 5 (3 kids) from house/boat (Oakland) without any prior contact # @LaureenH Blog the details so far so we have somewhere to send folks. Use the same posting/URL and post updates as events warrant. in reply to LaureenH # More on #BoA bad behaviour…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-12
@wrwalke There's a better way to browse the web! I recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Firefox! in reply to wrwalke #
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Vote on Potential Cat Names?
Hypothetically, if I were to get (say) three more cats at some point in the future[1] – what’s the best naming taxonomy? lolcat: om, nom, & nom-nom networking: 5, 5e & 6 (yes I have had 4 cats to date) unix: str, z, & into Votes? — [1] Purely hypothetical; I currently have an elderly…