Dropsafe

[www.livejournal.com] – which takes the feed from dropsafe.

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well, let’s see how this is going. this is meant to be a replacement for my old, now purged livejournal at [www.livejournal.com] ; at some juncture i shall be reposting some of those old articles here, once I have actually worked-out how blosxom works to any great extent. other things to do: get a comments…

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la la la don’t you just love it. test url: [www.google.com] foo

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[thud] [tap tap tap] anyone out there? [screech, feedback, thud]

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i am practicing out-staring my cats. i am beating them better than 90% of the time, nowadays.

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every so often, [www.ntk.net] publishes a string of interesting application-oriented keywords that let you drill into something that google is indexed, that perhaps the owners should not have permitted to be available on the web. here’s another contribution to the art, inspired by the text of a spam mail that i received this morning: [www.google.com]

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The screenshots [www4.ncsu.edu] are hilarious… [www.securityfocus.com] A Raleigh, North Carolina cable news channel shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closings last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station’s newscast. Before the system was…

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[theregister.co.uk] The perils of Googling By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus Posted: 10/03/2004 at 10:27 GMT Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations; Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want. …cites Crack further…

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i have the michelin 1:200,000 road atlas of france. being of a boy-scout turn of mind, i decided to measure the grid to get a grip on the overall scale of the atlas; grid lines are spaced at 65mm (+/- 0.5mm measurement error) which yields the bizzare spacing of 13km on the ground. 13 kilometers.…

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i am going to try and live this week, using Safari exclusively as a browser. let’s see if it works.

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Baco (the British Aluminum Corporation) are most notorious for making aluminium foil used in cooking; I found that they are also a retail aluminium stockholder with a branch nearby, in Reading. After casting around for a company to manufacture a luggage rack for my DRZ-400S – and finding prices in the 350+ Euro range –…

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