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If this is accurate, I will have very high hopes – this could be a line as-delivered-by Tom Baker… [found.pale.org] Quote from the new Doctor Who: “If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?” “Lots of planets have a North” …that said, one of the writers is Steven Moffat, he…

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My presentation got a short review by Geoff: Grids for Financial Services – Alec Muffett: Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic. But you knew that. That’s nice. Possibly as nice as his comment from November 2002: I find your blog bizarrely compelling. This disturbs me. …although I do wonder whether a synthesis of bizzare,…

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…and associated networking and socialising. More at [www.crypticide.com] Whilst we’re on the topic, isn’t this the least tactful manufacture of bag with which to be walking through airport security?

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So: Rob and I were in San Francisco, getting a little early shopping in before our corporate conference kicked-off, first and foremost trying to buy most of the contents of the local branch of REI; I had raided the luggage department, the camping stoves, and frisbee section; Rob had purchased for his wife a dehydrated…

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My mate Grum mailed me thusly: Knowing your pechant for strange hobbies and pastimes, this story had you written all over it! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4311821.stm …really, I have no idea where I’d find a pole that would support me, nor any place to stand one. If you think this sounds silly or sad, consider that in certain…

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an amusing take on design: [www.viceversa.com] – link from Bart.

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How on earth did I manage to miss this webiste with this picture last October?

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…were I ever to breed, and have a son, I suppose I should have to name him Robert Thomas Francis…

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In a slightly perverse way I almost enjoy watching the media reporting and reading the third-party pseudery blogging of people who’ve read [www.schneier.com] – it seems a year cannot now go by without someone saying that “MD5 is dead”, “SHA-1 is dead”, “RSA is dead” … stating some degree of academic justification that is rapidly…

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If the Toyota Prius will only make somewhere between 45 and 50 Miles Per (American) Gallon: US Gallon = 8 x 16 = 128 fl.oz. UK Gallon = 8 * 20 = 160 fl.oz Factor = 1.25 1.25 x 45 MPG(US) = 56 MPG(UK) …so if it makes 56 MPG in UK terms[1], why on…

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I used to love magazines like this when I was a kid – “Look & Learn”, etc … – but back then I didn’t have a salary! [make.oreilly.com] The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration. Volume 01: Premiere Table of Contents … 10: Yak Shaving Stuck in the middle of…

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RIP, hero of the Pi Office, 1983-88.

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