Dropsafe

Extract from e-mail, follows. I am being polite, to see how far it gets me. I find the below-cited issue with stemming – viz: that multiple versions of the same URL, distinct by merely a trailing slash, are treated differently – I find that rather annoying. More updates will be posted as/when the situation warrants.…

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Well, friday evening just as i was wrapping up for work, after an interesting afternoon of meetings and internal blog-related discussion, i got back to my desk and opened up my iBook to be greeted by a zzzt! noise, and a pale glow emanating from a gap in the case, just visible in the rebate…

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ok, so i am sure that some of you will hate this, but i like it and i don’t care what you think: 😎 mousing around on friday night i found that the video for easyworld‘s final single release is available on the web at [www.video-c.co.uk] – it requires either popups or an explicit click…

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So I rode the BMW up to Aberystwyth – Basingstoke to Aber in 4h10m, not bad at all – to see (as documented at [found.pale.org] ) the Castaway Theatre Company’s production of David Copperfield. The Arts Centre’s refurbishment has included a sizeable bookshop, most of which is given over to the topics of Law, and…

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If anyone wants to know why I want to go biking in Norway, click this link -> [www.nordicbike.no] Image courtesy of http://www.nordicbike.no

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An observation: in the last 4 weeks I have been plagued by roadkill, and by animals trying to become roadkill beneath the wheels of my bike. Most of these have been pheasants. I have not been keeping an accurate tally, but I would say that a fair count would be in the order of between…

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A friend queried: I’ve got a hash array and I want to determine the number of keys in the array. what’s the best way to do so? This is an interesting question. I can think of a one definite way to do it: @z = keys %foo ; $nkeys = $#z + 1 ; …but…

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Rupert Wilson-Young, from the UK, riding from Alaska to Tierra de Fuego (ie: Peru) on a 49cc Yamaha Vino scooter: “Ruts, constant gravel, sand, rocks the size of small houses and a pass at 4853 m’s where I had to push a wee while. We made it though. The landscape was incredible also. Sometimes the…

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OK, I am planning on a biggish European tour next year, and want to make sure I see some nifty new sights, and also explore some places that are off-of the typical tourist routes. In 2005, I want to go to North Cape, at/around midsummer. Traditionally, my first step is to flesh-out an approximate route,…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] He immortalised dead, drug taking, mystic rocker Jim Morrison and disgraced ex-US President Richard “tricky Dickie” Nixon. Now it is rumoured that Hollywood director Oliver Stone wants to commit to film the story of one of his greatest political heroines – Baroness Margaret Thatcher. According to The Sun newspaper, Stone wants to turn Maggie’s…

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[www.computerworld.com] Gartner: Half of U.S. IT operations jobs to vanish in 20 years Predicts improvements in data center technologies will lead to job cuts News Story by Patrick Thibodeau DECEMBER 01, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) – LAS VEGAS — In an eyebrow-raising forecast, Gartner Inc. researchers said they believe that as many as 50% of the IT…

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Well, after the most trivial of bits of hacking to some metadata without requiring actual installation of blosxom modules, according to FeedValidator: …I am now generating valid RSS2.0, and so therefore I am now off to bed. I could hack more (probably unused) metadata into it, and it’ll probably all be broken by morning, but…

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