Dropsafe

My Nokia N800 has to be mildly hacked in order to get my ThinkOutside Stowaway Sierra Keyboard to talk to it. The method changes slightly from revision to revision of the N800 operating system. The problem is: the ‘Fn’ key, as default-configured, brings up a popup menu for whatever application you are using. Alas, that…

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Canadians! Quick! Annexe the USA!

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So I saw the news yesterday, and supposed that I ought to write something about the loss of data perpetrated by the Inland Revenue; but to be frank I cannot be arsed. I can already imagine the potential exposure, risk, and damage. That’s the sort of thing that I think about for fun, so having…

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Coming back from London Open-Solaris User Group, disembarked at Farnborough, got in car, driving home towards Fleet. White minivan parked in the entrance of Cody Technology Park. On fire. Seriously on fire, lots of heat. Pull over to check from a distance whether I can see anything useful – no. It’s dark and wet at…

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Pertinent UK Security Joke of the moment. via Haroon. 🙂

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So you’re the voice-over artist who makes all those canned announcements that London Underground use – “Mind The Gap”, etc – and you have your own website. What else are you going to do? Spoof London Underground Announcements Would the passenger in the red shirt, pretending to read a paper, but is actually staring at…

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So here’s a weirdness: I upgraded to Leopard. Everything seems fine, except that the “Copy” function no longer works from the keyboard. It’s like the “Option” and “C” keys are not being recognised when pressed at the same time; and I can go further – it actually seems that this exactly the problem. If you…

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Every so often I’m about to stop reading fark.com after yet another religion flamewar, or some mud slinging fest between “both sides” of the political spectrum, or similar tediousness and then something like this comes along: An article gets posted how a Canadian fire truck (responding under a mutual assistance agreement) rushes to help out…

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Brad: Have you heard the expression “bacon?” Alec: mmmm? Brad: It’s like spam, but it comes from companies you’ve done legitimate business with. Brad: The continue to send you crap, even though you’ve opted out. Brad: It’s like Network Solutions sending me offers to do my Web site for me, when all I want them…

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yahoo news 9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (three percent) Do the police get an exception for Kevlar?

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PR Inside LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company’s FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET) in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $20.5 million. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to…

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7083292.stm UK universities rise up rankings Britain’s performance in a league table of the world’s top universities has improved, but the US still dominates. Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second. University College London breaks into the top 10 for the…

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