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Does anyone know what happened at #Winchfield station this morning? #Vandalism?
Lots of hits on my blog to an old posting about vandalism at Winchfield, and a train status update from this morning: Incident created 17/01/2012 04:55 Route affected Basingstoke, Hook, Wichfield, Fleet, Farnborough Main and Woking TOC affected South West Trains Description Trains are now running between Basingstoke and Woking following vandalism at Winchfield. However,…
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RUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing
Work is progressing fast on construction of the film set for the feature film RUSH. It would appear from the photograph’s that they are constructing the “72m run of pit garages”. Are security and safety measures properly observed at construction of the RUSH set at Blackbushe? This would appear to be in direct contravention of…
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Will the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi
Answer: Probably not – but only in as much as there won’t be an information silence for there is always the Google cache… but as Wikipedia reminds us that Marconi died… …in Rome in 1937 at age 63 following a series of heart attacks, and Italy held a state funeral for him. As a tribute,…
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“Three Cubes Colliding” # very cool Kite
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The Joy of Books – YouTube
via The Joy of Books – YouTube.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-17
:: "if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax" – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers http://t.co/Zt6XuHL4 # :: "AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server" #justwhatineed #not http://t.co/Fe0S7flI # @toxicnaan Do you mean Alistair Darling's QE http://t.co/bzDhE6Eo – or his…
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In protest of #SOPA and #PIPA, #Wikipedia will “go black” on January 18th, and…
…well, I made exactly the same posting about Reddit earlier in the week, and some friends’ reactions varied between meh and pointless to who? and not going to change anything. Somehow I think that a global blackout of Wikipedia: This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on…
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Three builders’ tubs labelled BURN, TRASH, RECYCLE …
…plus 1 hour and I’ve collated the paperwork for my 2011 tax return. It’s a remarkably small heap, yet the bins are quite full. I think I need to work on my filing system.
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Reading: ‘Is it still possible to extend TCP?’ http://goo.gl/PQAar [PDF]
Link We’ve known for a while that the Internet has ossified as a result of the race to optimise existing applications or enhance security. NATs, performance-enhancing-proxies, firewalls and traffic normalizers are only a few of the middleboxes that are deployed in the network and look beyond the IP header to do their job. IP itself…
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Will Someone Please Explain What’s Wrong With The Hammersmith Flyover? | Londonist
Fabulous, geeky read… update: and the problem may be salt and grit The next question is, how unsafe is the Hammersmith Flyover and will it ever re-open fully? Again, without evidence, definitive answers are impossible at this stage, but the notion that the structure could collapse any minute seems a little far-fetched. via Will Someone…
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“AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server” #justwhatineed #not
Dear Amazon EC2 Customer, We are excited to announce that starting today, the AWS Free Usage Tier will now include Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server. Customers eligible for the AWS Free Usage tier can now use up to 750 hours per month of t1.micro instances running Microsoft Windows Server for free. With this…
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“if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax” – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers
’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made…