Dropsafe

Let’s review the timeline: serious snow started falling in parts of Britain, last night by 6am this morning, folk were tagging tweets with “#uksnow” at some point someone tweeted this application where you tweet the first half of your postcode, and a rating out of 10 (eg: “RG27 1/10″ since it’s not currently snowing, just…

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Gates says recovery in 4 years; given what he said about the timeline for Vista, I am scared for the next decade. http://tinyurl.com/c7bl5c # yep. http://tinyurl.com/ac63u7 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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“…they believe their website is 100% safe…” Mmm. Cute idea, though.

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A few years ago I met this guy on this motorbike under circumstances that I documented here and photographed here, but this morning I got this comment which put a whole new spin on the encounter: Mike: C.D.W.Clark is a con man. He absconded with several hundred thousand dollars from an investor in his photo…

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For cumulophiles everywhere, a fantastic, proper rant against cloud computing: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717 # Who will be B.A. ?? — Ridley Scott to remake The A-Team http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7856758.stm # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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4250 lines of perl. Phew. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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If ‘Portal’ was your cup of tea: http://tinyurl.com/aj862b # My Firefox Plugins: Adblock+, Ghostery & Ubiquity (both via @adriana872), Firebug (@benlaurie), Gears, Greasemonkey, LiveHTTPHeaders. Yours? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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If you are in the UK, do something to save us all from the information state: http://tinyurl.com/anqba8 # small haggis for supper. some say it’s cruel how they are factory farmed, but they are delicious… # Kittens! http://community.livejournal.com/splodefromcute/1048792.html # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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‘splode from cute: http://community.livejournal.com/splodefromcute/1121662.html # This is NSFW but if you are a fan of both the “The Eye of Argon” (wikipedia it) and “Sandman”, you’ll appreciate this: tinyurl.com/9xasn2 # just destroyed a wall, now having tea with a friend; evening surprisingly full… # time to review the necronomicon of e-mail # Last night managed…

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hooray for westmalle tripel ! # it is my happy time. i am hacking firewall rules on a jail for an internet-facing service. why am i not down the pub? belgian ale! # OpenSolaris observation: on a compressed zfs filesystem, a basic “ipkg” zone’s root fs = 139Mb, removes much need for sparse zones. #…

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watching the death of old media and broadcast. # awkward rhymer, this pastor # Alas we cannot have Mr Rogers for the invocation. I would prefer him. # “Won’t you be my neighbor?” # ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring # Still want Mr…

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heating is off because the gasman lied about being able to come and reconnect. house starting to get cold. time for a bath. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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