Dropsafe

I give it nine months before it fades into irrelevance; it’ll probably trickle along like OpenBSD, driven by fury and zealotry, but the first time they screw-up an article, their reason to be and media momentum will go foom. Not least they fail to realise that the “wayward” like it that way. Independent The launch…

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foodandwine New Era of the Recipe Burglar Pete Wells explores the mysterious world of kitchen spies, copycat chefs and copyright lawyers who might, one day soon, change the way we eat. By Pete Wells I want to be there on New Year’s Eve when they seal the 2006 time capsule, because I’ ve found a…

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This is like a return to the 1990s; I am using a modem to access my backup ISP connection because last night some muppet from BT (British Telecom) unplugged my DSL at the exchange, and plugged me in to someone / somewhere else. So I for various reasons I had cold biryani for breakfast, and…

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Why didn’t anyone tell me that Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather is being made into a movie? David Jason as Albert should be rather good; although he can be menacing I’m not sure whether Joss Ackland is ebullient enough to be Ridcully, and there is scant information about Michelle Dockery (Susan) to be found on the web.…

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Tuesday evening, and dinner with Adriana at L’Ortolan, a Michelin 1-star restaurant near Reading. We had booked to arrive at 7pm, and made a good fist of it even allowing for the dire Reading evening traffic. I had a particularly pleasant drive up there with Dave who out of tremendous kindness offered to drive me…

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Buster – my cat – has had one of his two sets of results back from the vet; for those who haven’t followed the tale: back story Buster started looking a bit bloated last week, and on saturday Dave kindly stopped in and walked him down to the local vet; the diagnosis was “fluid in…

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Oddly I was having a conversation about exactly this sort of thing with Bullen when we went to the London Cycle Show last weekend… He wants something in “gaming” spec, though. Gizmodo Sitting in front of a computer drinking cola and blogging all day doesn’t provide that nice of a figure-I should know. If you…

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See seems to be having a Homer Simpson moment. That said, I vaguely remember Coffee Crisp from childhood summers in PEI. But I still mostly associate those with bars of Cadbury’s Old Jamaica which had to be made to last an entire week… From: Louise@… To: Mandy@…, alecm@…, … Subject: WooHoo! Can Crunchie and Flake…

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Adriana pointed me at the Biased BBC website last night; I skimmed it and will be returning in future to look again, but I did find something that immediately amused me. This is a link to an article elsewhere which argues by inference from clear evidence that the BBC seeks to lay the blame for…

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Is this evil?

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For Americans, read “jello” throughout; it’s unclear to me whether it was prepared, wobbly jelly, or the sort of rubbery gelatine brick as-illustrated in the BBC article – being the manner in which most jelly/jello is sold in the UK, rather than powdered form. BBC News A pile of jelly left by a road in…

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Many security-folk will be amused by what happens when you search for the term “pwned” using Google’s code-search tool… Wanna the source of several dozen worms, trojans and rootkits? Come to that, Muffett is a pretty interesting search string – from my perspective, anyhow – there’s tons of stuff out there I’d forgotten. Link c/o:…

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