Dropsafe

OK – I am peeved; the Daily Mail has it, the NY Daily News has it, and several blogs have it. Adriana found it yesterday, pointed me at it, and I was horrified when I worked it out. “It” is Tynt Tracer, and it’s the biggest piece of evil to infest blogs since Snap.COM. The…

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nydailynews A shotgun-wielding owner of a Harlem restaurant-supply company blasted two robbers to death and wounded two others on Thursday when he caught them pistol-whipping his employee, police said. … As the bandits bolted from the store, Augusto squeezed off three blasts from the pistol-grip shotgun from 20 to 30 feet away from the pistol-whipped…

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@chris_bloke what's Linux ? 😛 in reply to chris_bloke # Something, somehow, converted my #django #python views.py file, into a "views.app" OSX application. How? I must have clicked on something? # SkyTV salesguy rang door (at 7:30pm) to ask if I wanted satellite TV. Webcam shows him here earlier at 3:30pm too. Persistance failed. #…

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X.400 email addressess… my, how did we manage to dodge *that* bullet? http://www.alvestrand.no/x400/debate/addressing.html # time to watch the #cropredy tag – several friends are there… # @mrbill i dimly remember mailing someone with like uunet!ucbvax!eric%uunet.uu.net@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay – may have been VAXMAIL:: in there too in reply to mrbill # 90 minutes of yoga, all for the…

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@davetong if you can get the replay audio of Radio4's "PM" show, they just a few mins ago had a interview with a Dual-National comparing… in reply to davetong # Listening to the rumours/stories/rants coming in. People who know, will know what I am talking about. sympathy++;assert(brewery.pissup()<0) # Vanish: New Data DRM? Hmmmmmmmm…… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8197449.stm #…

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No, really… the story in itself is quite daft (and I am pro-MS regards that aspect of it) – but the article also contains: Earlier this month, Microsoft won a patent for XML in word processing documents. Microsoft’s patent is “directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be…

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> /Developer/Applications/Instruments.app — cute GUI frontend to Dtrace … #

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YAY! The mass media have picked up on the Cumulophile self-love fest! http://is.gd/29zvN – the end is in sight, we can all get back to "IT" # …but the press are far more accurate than bloggers, surely? http://is.gd/2a4T5 via http://is.gd/2a4RV #

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Does anyone have much experience of the Vodafone (Huawei?) USB Wireless Broadband on Mac OS X ? Dimly remember reports of flakiness… # Cool Tool Of The Day: EtherPad. http://etherpad.com/alecmuffett – though back in my day the word meant something entirely different… #

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@davewiner now it's on Twitter and Qik, and nobody cares, especially the media… in reply to davewiner # RT @albertwhite RT: @bbusschots: The more stoires like this I read the more I fear for the future of the iPhone – http://url.ie/26db # Oh god @stephenfry has discovered a new way to arouse the censorious ……

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The way things stand it seems quite likely that 31 August will be my last day as a Sun Microsystems employee. I’ll have been at Sun for 10.25 years. I circled the globe three times, crossed the Atlantic quite a bit more, met more than a few lovely and/or fascinating people, and worked on (and…

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Note to criminal community: don't plant a fake ATM as a security convention. Especially DEFCON. http://is.gd/20yOL # Isn't it odd how so many headline-grabbing "weakness in <cryptosystem>" are based on using it other than intended / specified / documented ? # Sudanese Woman faces flogging / 40 lashes + fine for "indecently" wearing long trousers…

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