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Sun’s just wrapped-up its Customer Engineering (CEC 2007) conference in Las Vegas; for obvious reasons I was not able to attend, but several weeks ago I had committed to present: IT Futurology What will happen when the MySpace generation grows-up? When employees want Facebook rather than a phonebook? When your monthly report is on your…

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On route back from Worcester, Bart and I detoured back into Hereford to visit Dunkertons in Pembridge, whose products I’ve drunk since the mid 1980s, but which I’ve never visited albeit that it is only moments off the A44, the arterial road into Aberystwyth which was key to my existence for several years. It was…

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Bart and I visited the Rollrights last night, and found considerable damage; the warden’s hut was burned down last year and replaced with a container, but this year a stone has been stoked with a burning tyre and set on fire, and a piece has broken off of it; some muppet has more recently been…

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Quote: IT changes the life, it changes processes, it changes business. Interestingly the way the presentation has to be staged, it showed how huge the possibilites are in everybody´s hand. Alec wasn´t able to make it to Las Vegas out of private reasons. Thus he had prerecord it, send to Las Vegas to a colleague…

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Muffett lived a life full of cannibals and councils By Mike Pryce IT’S my considerable regret that I never got round to sitting down with Dr David Muffett. It’s too late now, because he’s dead. He died last week in hospital aged 88 and Worcestershire has lost another of its most colourful characters. No doubt…

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Bart forwarded me: Five years ago, I embarked on an expedition for which I was too unfit and unprepared. My circumstances at the time were not conducive to success, yet I stepped boldly forward anyway. I made it as far as the third base camp, approximately halfway to the ultimate goal. The journey so far…

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So I keep getting an exclamation mark next to a bunch of my podcast feeds, and when you hover over it, it tells you: iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you haven’t listened to any episodes for two weeks …or somesuch. If you try googling it, you will find other people who are equally…

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NYT Blogs How much would you pay for the next Radiohead album, “In Rainbow”? This is not a trick question: Your answer will be as binding as a dictator’s edict. “IT’S UP TO YOU,” the rock band’s site informs customers pre-ordering the digital download, which will be available Oct. 10. Doubters get a second assurance:…

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Adriana passed me this link by Dan York, CISSP: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2007/09/how-using-skype.html I’m staying at the Best Western and did so largely because they advertised free high-speed Internet (they were also cheaper than others). First annoyance was discovering that I was too far away from their APs to use wireless, but since I had an ethernet cable…

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A short note to let you all know that my father died this morning, in hospital in Redditch, shortly after midnight. He had been in and out of hospital since a fall in January which broke his hip, with complications from infections, distress and – most recently – a gastric ulcer for which he eventually…

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I’ll cut straight to the money quote from this fantastic Ars Technica article: The cold war being waged between MediaDefender and P2P copyright infringers is rife with mutual deception, but one fact shines through all of the layers of obfuscation: MediaDefender consistently underestimates the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and dedication of its adversaries. In this case, it…

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http://community.livejournal.com/geology/201605.html

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