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FLASH: Stephen #Hester to decline his #RBS bonus. Shall we take bets that there’s a #peerage in the offing ?
Just announced on the Westminster Hour, Radio 4. £963,000 should buy a fairly comfy seat… 🙂
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Chicken as a 3-day meal
roasted with spuds leftovers stock -> risotto, broth, soup This somewhat offsets the investment in the meat – spending nearly a tenner on a really good bird gets you amortised to 3x ~ £3.30 …
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My eldest sister’s five rules of negotiation with software vendors
Quote: I am smarter than you. I am better than you. I am relentless. I will outlast you. And, I do not care how much you hate me. Sounds vaguely familiar…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-29
@BBCr4today Rory the Internet is not a unitary entity. Asking "what does it know about you" is the wrong model. Please don't exacerbate this # : Here's how @BBCr4today @BBCRoryCJ @ruskin147 are *not* helping the challenge of network security education… http://t.co/t4zis2Wi # "In an industry where the world turns upside down every 5 years then…
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How to have an epic day…
Buy new tyres as a belated-but-relevant gift for god/less/son. Buy lots of meat. Visit. Fit tyres, spend afternoon overhauling bike, identify future requirements. Return home. Starter: Pickled garlic, pickled chilis, fresh parmesan slices, French butter, oatcakes. Glass Minervois. Chicken roasting in oven w/ lemon, spuds and half-peeled shallots. Pork belly strips in fridge, awaiting future…
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Regards BBC security “background music” – http://goo.gl/Z9FIv – have lodged a message with “Feedback”…
Let’s see if anything happens.
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Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film on Vimeo
Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.
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Shit Programmers Say – definitely the last worth watching in the genre http://goo.gl/Idq8W
I’ll spare you the embed. HT @perrymetzger
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Here’s how @BBCr4today @BBCRoryCJ @ruskin147 are *not* helping the challenge of network security education…
So a package on Radio4’s Today programme about the (subjective opinion!) ludicrous “right to be forgotten” – and they wheel out the usual suspects: Cluley to nitpick Gmail’s advertising parser, Gus Hosein of Privacy International, and Jeff Jarvis for the optimist. I suspect this is what the BBC called “balanced opinion” – and you know…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-28
:: Loot from Hartley Wintney WI !!! http://t.co/RPrepN5v # :: Loving the fact that the #ChillingEffects #Twitter page can ironically undo the DMCA notices caused it… http://t.co/2AAY9dMx # :: I really should work out some way to work out in the greenhouse, it's 20C in there… http://t.co/Zt3j3aDS # “@gwire: @AlecMuffett People aren't really picking up…
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Do It Yourself Steadicam Using a Chicken
Chicken Powered Steadicam – Smarter Every Day – YouTube. via petapixel
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Jante Law: Sounds like American Corporatism; If this is real, I would create severe challenges in Scandinavia
The Jante Law (Danish and Norwegian: Janteloven; Swedish: Jantelagen; Finnish: Janten laki; Faroese: Jantulógin) is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities, which negatively portrays and criticises individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate. […] The ten rules state: Don’t think you’re anything special. Don’t think you’re as good as us.…