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One of the reasons I’ve not bothered switching off AIM Coho-spam yet, is that it is occasionally a source of wonderous surrealism: Perfect.

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6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book compare and contrast (tags: books publishing)

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This is brave, I applaud it, I hope it works out better than I fear it might: http://www.skittles.com/ # RT @adriana872 what r most valuable data from GoogleAnalytics for blog, tell best story? real value is relationships & links, curious for #s # PirateBay seems tohave gone AWOL, hopefully this is not presaging the verdict……

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I have no idea whether I can be arsed to go see this, but I’m blogging it because Peter Gutmann got me a copy of Secret Power which prettymuch broke the story on the real Echelon, and ever since I’ve been dropping in on Menwith when in the area, to count the radomes. This… this…

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Economist fan-translation – fantastic; moreso that the magazine does not seem to mind… http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/01/2775/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | A massive, salty filing cabinet how you store documents in a mine 🙂

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when i was a kid, i wanted a spacehopper but was too tall for one; now i have an exercise ball to sit on, to unkink my back. plus ça change. # fishcam http://tinyurl.com/cesswa # Singing the baseline to Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” – BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG # nice glass…

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testing a hybrid twitter tool # Pocky! # irony: Running xvnc4viewer client in ubuntu on virtualbox on solaris, to mad; is nicer than the std OpenSolaris one. Double virtualisation? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Cool: video of disk-head being parked when laptop drive gets dropped. http://tinyurl.com/b5njmc # trying to spreadsheet my life. alas the data set is not terribly uniform, but at least i know how much i spend a month. about. approx. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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KTM: electric dirt-bike out next year • Register Hardware Want. Managing monopolies and dominance in the Net age – O'Reilly Radar Hmmm…

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Would comment on stupid times article http://is.gd/kqIo – but easier to RT @kevinmarks http://tinyurl.com/czdu9a ; Pemberton smells of fear. # love it: “When can we expect a Times article on the abject lameness of MySpace? Tim Footman, London/Bangkok” – real soon now, surely? # wowee – skype understands sed syntax; typed “foo bar baz” and…

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