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…get a silly answer. Google Maps route from New York to Dublin. See step 23. via Bart.

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So it was a nice evening last night, and inspired by Chris Gerhard’s recent video effort I decided to hand-hold my Canon IXUS 900ti and see how far I could get homewards before I filled my 2Gb SD card. All the way through the woods, and over the tank range, in turned out. As an…

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Once a month I get together with my colleagues for an ad-hoc chat and lunch about anything and everything that takes our fancy; I love these occasions not just because of the geek content we discuss but also because of the observations and gossip that they bring. A few weeks ago, the conversation went a…

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In case you missed it, me and some other folk in the Sun security community are trying something a little bit different. Security has always been a problematic topic for a corporation to discuss, except in the narrow sense of products that do some small security thing. You know what I mean – virus scanning,…

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Flickr user? Old Skool Flickr user who’s been with them for a long time? This morning, then, you’ll probably have been faced with a big glaring ugly splash screen like this: The people at Flickr probably have heard this, but in case not: boys, that’s a big oops. It’s bossy, ugly, and offers no value…

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Further to my thoughts about how to measure the growth of your readership, I hacked up a bit of perl which went sniffing for instances of %d reader(s) or %d subscriber(s) amongst my Apache logs, and boiled down the results. /dropsafe/index.rss 46 readers via Feedfetcher-Google /dropsafe/index.rss 38 readers via Bloglines/3.1 /dropsafe/index.rss 8 readers via NewsGatorOnline/2.0…

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Cathy Seipp – a blogger and writer – is gravely ill in hospital and will soon die of complications of cancer; she may have died overnight. Yet when I was seeking for an update I found some twit has registered cathyseipp dot com – I’m not hyperlinking to it, type it into the browser bar…

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Jim found a gem: “Give us a pencil. And a couple of those tees. And a Topic. No, not a Milky Way you arse, a Topic! All fecund in its nuttiness.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=p856CfM64w8 I’ve never got on with Joyce. Can’t be arsed to maintain a grip amongst the verbiage. I suspect Tim Caynes will love it,…

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Following the Ian Murdock thread on Slashdot a /. commenter > Why would anyone even bother installing “true” Debian at this point? the debian that can be installed in 40 minutes is not the true debian. i used to have a debian Tshirt that said “it’s what your mom would use if it was 20…

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A live toad every morning One effect of global warming is that the seasons are beginning earlier each year. As one sign of this, I saw a display of hot cross buns for sale in Coles on Wednesday, January 3rd – at least two weeks earlier than last year. (Via)

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el reg SXSW Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017. “There are 55 million blogs and some of them have got to be good,” Sterling said, during a speech here at the SXSW conference in reference…

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Newsflash attached. I’ll let you know my thoughts on this, later. Phipps Ahoy! I’m delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who’s starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun’s Solaris and…

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