Dropsafe

Suppose we should gear up for Red Stig? Green Stig? http://bbc.in/b6fwqQ #topgear # @wouterboon …again… in reply to wouterboon # Checking out http://www.aklagare.se/ via the magic of Google Translate. # @matthiasdaues Tor & a decent BT client would solve many problems. What is your security requirement, what are you trying to bypass? in reply to…

Blog: NYTimes damning #WikiLeaks by faint acknowledgement of quashed rape warrant http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4344 # @matthiasdaues not sure, will review tomorrow. Prod me if you see nothing… in reply to matthiasdaues # The Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris http://youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8 – 6m48s of wonder and irony (cont…) # (…cont) – some…

OK – here’s a cool experiment – go to the NYT homepage and do a search on WikiLeaks and you’ll get the following search results and headline: Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange … Julian Assange was sought by Swedish prosecutors for questioning on rape allegations, but the prosecutors then said the accusations…

Blog: HTML5 as an analogue for the perennial security problem http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4334 # "Contaminated with FLESH !!!!" – could we be any more B-movie, BBC? http://bbc.in/9XrGMP # @chris_bloke So what are you hoping for? Hung Parliament? We could start a trend… in reply to chris_bloke # "The JavaStation was way way to far ahead of its…

I was going to make this a longer and more academic blogpost, but today’s news (whatever the truth or falsehood behind it) makes it more pertinent than it has been for quite some time. To make the points briefly: Various governments want to shut-down WikiLeaks Various companies want to kill BitTorrent Yet more (often related)…

Back in February I wrote: Currently I can switch Flash off. It’s a plugin, it’s a nuisance, it’s proprietary, it’s unbundled, but *because* of that it’s easy for me to shim or nuke the flash-rendering module and *poof* my webpages become a lot more efficient. When I added “ClickToFlash” to Safari, my daily morning ritual…

wth is going on – so many people i know are diseased / bedridden… is this viral or is some bacterial thing going around? # Pork Trek: http://bit.ly/crK0n7 # Am hoping today is a good day to list stuff on Ebay; 10 days hence is a bank holiday… # @bubbva Welcome back to the land…

via Rohan Pinto: "Run up to a complete stranger and say: 'Tag – You're It!' – and then run away." # Poll: Do you frequently benefit from knowing the location of friends via Latitude or other Geolocation services? http://bit.ly/bP1Ve9 # Geolocation of friends (#Latitude etc) is currently losing 11-nil http://twtpoll.com/r/s1g30o # @obscurebug Okay – that's…

It may be heresy to the geolocation crowd, but what is more important to me is that I can communicate with my friends, rather than know where they are. I’ve registered for Latitude and a variety of others, but frankly geolocation is most useful to me on my phone so that it can tell me…

Wednesday Morning Fun: Experiment with this google search: http://bit.ly/cRIvx4 # @newsbrooke You might be interested in playing around with http://bit.ly/cRIvx4 too… # The _simple_ way to implement RBAC – really, we swear! http://bit.ly/9BAomw #

Blog: Musings on Spam http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4324 # MAMILs have competition: "OWLCRAP – old woman, lycra clad, red and puffing" http://bit.ly/9q3lDc # Slaughter-your-own farm for faith followers in Maryland. Fantastic read: http://bit.ly/d29cTH # Food Standards Agency "Working Effectively with Minority Ethnic Food Businesses" http://bit.ly/chAB1b – bizarre Govt document, but fun. # @ketan Go for it. In exchange:…

Venison Sausage, Roast Elephant Garlic, and fried Shrooms, originally uploaded by alecmuffett. Utterly delicious; homemade bread, homegrown garlic. Shrooms were on knockdown at the local Waitrose, 35p or so.