Dropsafe

A little project that I am helping out with in my spare time, creating a new way for people to share information with companies, vendors and friends but shorn of all the federated-knowledge-based-identity-crypto-bullshit. Power to the Persons redux Technical outline: the feeds-based VRM concept is for you to be able to manage, manipulate and share…

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Laureen tries to pay a bill – a lesson in customer care done wrong and right… ElementalMom » Paying a Late Bill Seven minutes after that, Mitch in Collections picks up the phone. Desperate, I blurt out “I really, really, just want to give someone my money. That’s all I want to do. I have…

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Regards this and this, how long do you think it will be before the police start publicly calling for the freedom to impound cameras, license video recording rights, counter-sue for invasion of privacy, and similar ? If it’s not happened already, it will, soon.

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5 things you need to know about laptop searches at U.S. borders “We think people should know that they basically are leaving their right to privacy at the door when they cross the U.S. border. There is no assumption of privacy [at a port of entry].” Susan Gurley, executive director of the Association of Corporate…

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An obituary worth reading. Marie Smith | Economist.com BEYOND the town of Cordova, on Prince William Sound in south-eastern Alaska, the Copper River delta branches out in silt and swamp into the gulf. Marie Smith, growing up there, knew there was a particular word in Eyak, her language, for the silky, gummy mud that squished…

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The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSS – ReadWriteWeb Damn, this is cool. Take regularly-updating web pages and provide a RSS feed for them via scraping… (tags: blogging dataportability xml web2.0 video Dapper scraping) What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 – ReadWriteWeb Read up! This is what other…

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yeah yeah… Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Progress!

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Hanging Yoghourt Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Hanging freshly made yoghourt to make cheese; got a couple of pints of whey off it too, need to make pancakes with that…

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A Degree in Surfing Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Some of my friends have had been inclined to go back to college and get (more) degrees in order to better themselves; here at last from the University of Plymouth is something I could face: a degree in “Surf Science and Technology”. (I found the prospectus on…

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Via Geoff, a very cool music video – what you can do with 9 quicktime viewers and a screen capture… Bad Astronomy Blog » I (heart) George Hrab

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Very cool music video – what you can do with 9 quicktime viewers and a screen capture… Bad Astronomy Blog » I (heart) George Hrab

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Password pain looks set to ease BBC covers OpenID. Hmmm. (tags: security identity openid authentication) Crazy Paper Cylinder ! How To Make ! cute rainy-day project, cf: hexaflexagon (tags: paper fun Recreational maths) trench warfare 🙂 (tags: photos funny cats) HDR Tutorial – New and Improved for 2008! what it…

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