Dropsafe

Eighteen or so years ago I was at University trying to narrowly fail to flunk my degree whilst learning how the world worked. Of the many projects into which I threw myself, one of the most formative was working on Pi Magazine, then as now the student magazine of University College London. For most Universities…

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Microsoft changes blog policies SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is tightening its policies regarding shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized shutdown of a well-known Chinese blogger at that government’s request. The Redmond software company, which operates a popular blogging technology called MSN Spaces, said Tuesday that the changes will include efforts to make…

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With the postscript “Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens,” the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google’s censoring of its new Chinese search engine results. [www.eweek.com]

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Service Restored Yep, we’re back!

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temporarily closed dropsafe is temporarily closed – might be a day ot two – whilst it gets relocated to a new server due to service outages on the existing one.

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On 1 Feb 2006, at 15:59 [NAME] wrote: Hello! This stuff is great! Congrats. [www.crypticide.com] Thank you. I want to write a story about it, and I have some questions for somebody over there. Cool. How did you figure this out, was it a caps lock snafu? A friend mentioned the observation to me via…

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w00t! I am mostly reassured by this, in that I don’t see why someone should be let-off driving at 160 where the speed limit is 70 just because “[they] are good at it”. Or – alternatively – I’m all in favour of people being let-off for speeding in a responsible manner in a motorway environment,…

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Re: DropSafe Server Problems People are having problems accessing my weblog and I’m not surprised; you see I rent server space on HostRocket who’ve generally been very good about support issues. At the moment what we’re faced with is the fact that someone else on the server is using MySQL as backing store for their…

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Response to an e-mail I received: >And everyone give someone you love a hug, just because you can love is… knowing your cat will lacerate you if you hug it, but doing it anyway… …oh wait, no, that’s “masochism”, isn’t it?

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Something that’s vexed me for a while, which I finally decided to compute: UK mpg US mpg km/l l/100km 5.00 4.17 1.77 56.50 10.00 8.33 3.54 28.25 15.00 12.50 5.31 18.83 20.00 16.67 7.08 14.12 25.00 20.83 8.85 11.30 30.00 25.00 10.62 9.42 35.00 29.17 12.39 8.07 40.00 33.33 14.16 7.06 45.00 37.50 15.93 6.28…

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[blogs.sun.com] Dutch biometric passports cracked, ID info stealable It’s as well that there is lively debate on this subject, from a technical standpoint as well as the more expected civil liberties folk… The Dutch passport, one of the first to include “biometric” information which can be read digitally in accordance with new internatiomal legislation, has…

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Geoff pointed me at [www.boingboing.net] which takes me thence to [www.ridingsun.com] I swung by the 2006 Tokyo Fuel Cell Expo yesterday, where I saw the ENV motorcycle from Intelligent Energy: [www.envbike.com] I blogged about the ENV previously here. Its expected price is somewhere below $10,000. According to a company representative I spoke to, it should…

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