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What I’ve been missing…
I’ve just been out on the Trice – a cool, fresh, slightly overcast sky, riding over to see Simon & Helen to retreive a piece of coal so Dave can do the first-footer thing at a New Year’s party coming up. According to my speedo I did 6.66 miles in 44 minutes, with a top…
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Paris Syndrome – acb finds another gem
(Via) Culture-bound syndrome of the day: “Paris Syndrome”. This is a condition affecting Japanese tourists who travel to Paris, romantic scenes from Amélie in their minds, only to discover that the city is considerably dirtier and-shock, horror-full of very rude people. This shock can cause a psychiatric breakdown: An encounter with a rude taxi driver,…
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Happy Solstice
Welcome to the longest night. Solstice is at 0608h GMT tomorrow. Another year over. The days start getting longer from now on. Summer is on the way. And we are alive.
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IT worker indicted in hacking scheme at health firm
news.com.com.com A systems administrator who apparently feared imminent layoffs was arrested Tuesday in connection with installing “destructive computer code” on servers at his company, a major manager of prescription benefit plans. FBI agents arrested Yung-Hsun “Andy” Lin, 50, at his Montville, N.J., home on Tuesday morning, one day after a grand jury returned a two-count…
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Moore the merrier as The Sky at Night heads for its half-century
Grauniad The sky at night over Sir Patrick Moore’s Sussex garden was a pinkish-grey slab of damp blotting paper. The promised meteor shower may well have been streaking across the heavens, thick as hailstones, but once again the main event had evaded the cameras of the oldest television science series in the world. Instead, Chris…
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Jailed ID Thieves Thwart Cops With Crypto
Reading the attached, I’d expect the tabloid press to come up with a rant like: This country needs a law so that criminals who try and hide their activity behind walls of cryptography can be prosecuted for not handing over the key to incriminate themselves! …but, wait, there already is one. Does the Government not…
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Photos of Geoff Arnold & I, doing Oxford
Geoff’s Blog My Flickr Geoff’s Mum’s Front Room The latter is the sort of wall to which I aspire… his photos from the trip are well worth a browse, even for the sunrises alone.
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Blogging ‘set to peak next year’
Gartner. Gotta love ’em. I don’t expect unbounded growth, but they are looking at the wrong metrics. They’re staring at the finger, not at what the finger points. (Via) BBC News The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner. The analysts said that during the middle of…