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The World Clock – Time Zones Instant World Clock – Useful for settling those “did the Americans shift before us” arguments (tags: time timezones clock world reference Travel tools) No ghosts: A Blunt Atheist FAQ Fortunately you don’t have to face stuff like this in the UK; but I vaguely remember having these thrown at…

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So I was at work having ridden in on my SOB[1] and found the new seatpost I’d bought was slightly undersized for the single-pinch frame; the seat kept dropping irrespective of how tightly the bolt was torqued. Examination showed some metal flare which would need to be removed with a Dremel before the clamp could…

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A Christian friend is studying to be a “reader” or somesuch lecture-in-church thing, and as part of her coursework was set a questionnaire to poll a selection of 6+ friends who are/are not church attendees, young, old, etc – and she asked me to participate, so I popped around this evening for a mug of…

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Mel reviews Food Not Lawns If you like mandalas, yoga and community theatre this might be the book for you. If you think digging a deep hole, standing in it, then getting a friend to bury your feet and legs and then water you whilst you; …raise your arms to the sky and imagine your…

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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry Fascinating, gripping tale of the development of the iPhone, equally interesting for what it does not say: that iPhone is underspecced for Europe and a continent used to 3G phones. The parochialism of the US market comes through loud & clear. (tags: iphone apple…

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A disappointed (occasional) reader writes: While an infrequent visitor to blogs, I think I’ve gone completely off your now. why is it mostly just a set of links? I don’t care what you’re reading as much as what you’re thinking. Help me understand the rationale. All I think when I look at the never-ending lists…

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Ranum’s Law: “You can’t solve social problems with software.” Compare with the quote from James Cicconi, senior vice president, external & legal affairs for AT&T: BoingBoing: AT&T is considering adding content filters to its network. These will try to figure out if your network connection contains a copyrighted work, and censor any communications that are…

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Goats on Powerpoint Slideware “You would put all management out of a job!” (tags: goats cartoons powerpoint presentations communications) The Null Device Facebook and Google anounce that they are joining the Data Portability Workgroup, a body advocating open standards allowing users of social web sites to easily move their data from one site to another.…

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If this is true: The state of California is one the verge of controlling every air conditioner in the state. Title 24, California’s state-mandated energy regulatory code is about to be revised to implement a requirement that will allow the state to take control of the thermostat in every new home and office in the…

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Watching all the discussion of HD-DVD (“RIP”) versus Blu-Ray, or Blu-ray is the “revenge of Betamax” since Sony owned the latter – I can’t help thinking that people are watching the wrong game. It’s not HD-DVD format vs: Blu-Ray format. It’s hard-plastic-disk-format, versus online. Me, I bet on the latter. Terabyte disks are dropping to…

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Judge rules defendant can’t be forced to divulge PGP passphrase [Politech] A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled tha (tags: privacy law civilrights america cryptography)…

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Macworld | CES: Casio unveils super high-speed digital camera Casio will put on sale in March a digital still camera capable of shooting up to 60 full-resolution images in one second, and video at more than 1,000 per second to realize a super slow-motion effect, it is expected to announce Sunday at the International (tags:…

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