Dropsafe

so i got up at 0500h to keep an appointment to meet a friend in london; kitted up and was out on the bike by 0600h and (permitting for a fuel stop and getting lost in richmond, looking for the a3) i got to tower bridge to see david blaine dangling in the selfsame glass…

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one of the unexpected upsides of going to the security ambassadors earlier this month, was meeting ulrich and discovering that for the past 10 years, a group of bikers from my company have been meeting up for an annual run through the alps: [www.suntour.ch] i am not sure whether my next bike will be “up”…

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Interesting AP article at [www.securityfocus.com] AtStake fires executive over Microsoft criticism By Ted Bridis, The Associated Press Sep 25 2003 1:29PM The chief technology officer for a technology firm that works closely with Microsoft Corp. lost his job after he helped write a study critical of the insecurity of Microsoft software. Daniel E. Geer Jr.,…

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Take a small denomination copper coin – a US or UK penny does fine for this circumstance. Hold it at the furthest arm’s length that you possibly can, stretch really far, and imagine it polished-up to a bright, vomitous pink colour, the fleshy pink of a common “Band Aid” or other surgical item. Imagine the…

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/itssarahyo/328226.html

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…but dave will be pleased: [www.ananova.com] link from

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Playing tonight at a Corporate gig in the USA – the video says it all: [www.letslounge.com]

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this will go over the heads of so many of my friends and relations: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT13/refresh/AL1303W+GIF/162058W.gif

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Well, depending what blog you read, you’ll know i have been away for a week visitng the USA; this has mostly involved working 0700h through to 2000h for four days, and until 1700 on the last day. trip highlights: getting off the plane, going shopping at rei, and then going hot-tubbing with dave, valerie and…

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is it really too bourgeoise to have 526Gb hung off your home system ?

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i upturned a garbage-can lid on some bricks, to make a crude birdbath on the back lawn. buster has taken to sitting on the grass, with his feet up on one of the bricks, gazing down into it – presumably at the reflection of the cat staring back at him?

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I mounted my work filestore via Samba on MacOS, and created a couple of files in my HTML publishing directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 20961 Sep 3 12:00 tmp.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 42554 Sep 3 11:53 tmp.ps …these are the permissions seen verbatim, as seen on my laptop. I shared the URL with some…

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