Dropsafe

Does make you wonder what Skype has _actually_ done to piss off the Chinese http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/31/china_skype_ban/ # New: The Walk Of Shame http://bit.ly/fxNHXV # Seven day stubble. Shave. Rubber face. # Radio 4. The Chancellor is talking about "pegging taxes". # The Gods are playing Angry Birds http://huff.to/ijem7c http://bit.ly/flRLu4 #

My neighbour, Charlie, has a delightful name for the 150 meter walk to the local bottle recycling bank. He calls it the walk of shame. I only do it perhaps three times a year, though when I do I take a wheelbarrow containing a trashcan full of empties, jamjars and bottles. I don’t think that’s…

The gist of the copyright dispute / is whether Plaintiff's virtual horses infringe on [the] Defendant's virtual bunnies http://bit.ly/hqqyEO # Waiting for Doctor surgery to wake up so that I can demon-dial to get an appointment… 🙁 # i hate being ill. doctor appt booked. pbhtuvat hc terra fabg yvxr onqyl ergernqrq glerf. oynetu. #…

Some former colleagues at Sun Microsystems never really understood this approach to presentation skills: http://bit.ly/fDiD4V # YouTube – Chinese Military Shovel WJQ-308 (HQ Full length) – http://goo.gl/WxXa # MUST WATCH, AND THE MUSIC IS EPIC # @chrisgerhard Oh yeah, but they had other challenges too, like "lacking commitment" and "no attention span" # BBC News…

must see: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/30/when-natural-and-artificial-moons-align/ # http://i.imgur.com/MVgpV.jpg #squeee # Many Faces of Nienke Klunder – http://goo.gl/neqFv # @chris_bloke No… swearing off cats for a while, couldn't eat another after christmas. # @chrisgerhard The way you carry on anyone would think you ride to stay fit! # Reddit: "A student wrote this paper on "Cyber- Terrorists" for my…

@richsharples "what comes next?" # Oh nooooooooooooo… http://haikuleaks.tetalab.org/ – via @adriana872 #

night of shivers & tremendous fever heat, broke this morning; hot shower helps, now feeling about 60%; phone is a lifesaver # Cyberdyne's Robot Suit HAL http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html via @raelinc # Blargh again; killing time with books and TopGear. Horrific prospect of being awake all night. In the interim, hot toddy. # hot toddy improves everything…

Feeling moderately grotty – dry, ticking cough that is trying to dive into my lungs. Suspect today will mostly be spent in bed. Bother. #

ross anderson being epic: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf #

In 1988 I had a summer job setting up a 10Mbit network for a Physics dept. Now I am setting up a 802.11g network to pipe xmas music… #

How A Charlie Brown Christmas should have ended: http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/470.jpg # Five years ago I had barely seen a £50 note; now they're moderately common. Five years from now you'll be able to get them in ATMs? # #recumbent vader trike: http://bit.ly/i4Op4Q via http://on.fb.me/hcMrNm # Skype is dead, Twitter is crushed under the weight of Skype…

@r4today john humphries and julian #assange talking #wikileaks in front of a roaring log fire, over cocoa ? # New: SECURITY – iTunes Phishing Attack – how does this one work? http://bit.ly/fCUXiK # New: Dropsafe Reading Level: 24% Basic, 75% Intermediate… http://bit.ly/enMrZK # Back from gym – probably the last visit for a week or…